A Storytime for a community of learners and growers
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2008
Today was a good day for imagining eating, maybe not so good if you were really hungry though. It was all about big food! The biggest turnip you ever saw, so big it took a man, his wife, their daughter, the dog, the cat to get it to budge, and that wasn’t even getting it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 14th, 2008
I, Elizabeth, filled in for Henry this week. Henry was off puppeteering. We investigated big and little and the relativity of it all. We read some great stories. The first was Charlie the Chicken by Nick Denchfield. Charlie has many large body parts that pop right out. But if you think Charlie is big, you [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2008
I needed the quick fix of reading a really fun, new book to start off explorastory this week. Not an uncommon thing, and it wasn’t too off topic either since we really didn’t establish one after last week’s open ended exploration. Anyway, we started with Ghosts in the House! by Kazuno Kohara which I absolutely didn’t [...]
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 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 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 Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2008
Today was a lot of fun! Thinking still about Duck On a Bike, we tried to think of things that animals can do and places they go. A few people told us where they saw animals, like outside in yards or in the zoo. But if a duck can ride a bike, why couldn’t we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2008
More work on the community. One of the wonderful things about hearing from everyone is the diversity of details that we remember: not only do we have buildings, houses and mints, we have the sun and clouds represented as well. Even with all these things, I think there is more to explore, especially because we [...]
