A Storytime for a community of learners and growers
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Oct 26th, 2008
Today was a great storytime, and I can tell it was because I didn’t read everything that I brought. It’s more fun when kids decide what to do. We did read two fun books, a new one called Hello! Is This Grandma? by Ian Whybrow and Can You Guess? by Margaret Miller.
Can You Guess? is really fun because [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 17th, 2008
There was a fractured fairy tale party at Lee road earlier this week, which got me thinking a lot about storytelling and how stories go. Fractured fairy tales are stories that are told with familiar characters or plots from fairy tales, but they have a new ending, characters, setting, or sometimes a whole different story. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2008
I was intrigued by the way shadows are solid shapes. In fact, the book Shadow from last week has a part that tells how shadows need no adornment, they are just black. So from this I started thinking about shapes of shadows, and then shapes in general. There are plenty of shapes that we know, [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Oct 11th, 2008
At the end of last week, we danced with the lights off and saw our shadows on the wall. I thought this was so interesting, the way our shadow seems like a part of us but can also seem so different and strange, like someone we know when we see them, but we have no [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Oct 9th, 2008
Explorastory has been meeting for the last few weeks, but the posts are a little behind. Not to worry! I wrote down what we read and did. Two weeks ago we tried out dancing! We read Wiggle by Doreen Cronin and Who Bop? by Jonathon London. I love when we get to read jazz books because it’s so [...]
