A Storytime for a community of learners and growers
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2008
Today was kind of a hodge podge of stuff because I didn’t know who was going to brave the post holiday AM. It was difficult enough for me, so our small but intrepid group was much appreciated. And entertaining! There was a lot of dancing and running around to the tune of Kids Beat Bop [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Nov 28th, 2008
Another week exploring stories, exploring them from the inside and making them up as we go along. After some books and enegizing songs, we read Move! by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page. Their books focus on nature and animals illustrated using a ripped paper collage technique. Move! talks and illustrates the motion of animals, which shows that sometimes very [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Nov 14th, 2008
WOW! What a cool week! This was the first week that we explored stories and were creating something without using the materials! We used ourselves instead! Here’s how it happened: We were reading Hondo & Fabian by Peter McCarty and Maddie suggested that we act out the story. So some people were Hondo the Dog and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2008
Sometimes I like to bring books to explorastory that have really fun artwork in them, and sometimes I like the books that have will get everyone really excited about reading. A book that does both came to us recently, and it’s called Scoot! by Cynthia Falwell. There’s lots of activity by the sunny pond, but [...]
Posted in Coventry, ExploraStory time on Nov 5th, 2008
Halloween! What a fun time! It was such a nice day, too. Did you enjoy dressing up? I did! I was a penguin, although it was a strange looking kind of penguin. A lot of people thought I was a raven, so maybe people want to be scared….so scary stories it is! We told the [...]
