Stories Galore!!

We heard the story of The Talking Cave again and decided to draw the story while listening to it. Some decided to draw along with me. Others decided to help me with the characters in the story. The outcome was much more focused listening. One child could even hum the song in the story!!

Before going into snack break we decided to write down the codes of snack time. Everybody together agreed upon 10-11 codes. I wrote them down and put it up for everybody to see and kids just applied/followed them with no reminders from me!!

After exploring the sand toys together I made 3 teams and divided the toys amongst them. The teams were given one sand tray each and were asked to make a story together or individually with the given set of toys. The stories were full of action and had lots of animals in them.

One kid told an amazing story of two characters in desert who sold sand to make money and used the money to buy a fountain so that they can have bath…..

See and tell….

We played passing the book and whoever had the book when the music stopped had to pick an object from a basket and describe it in 3-4 sentences. Once we got the hang of it there was lot of team work, everybody was helping each other to describe the object.

We listened to the story of The Talking Cave and then the children told it back, it was great fun with many new animals getting into the story and the story had many different twist and turns than the original ….

We made things with clay and using them as characters built our own stories around them. The stories revolved around caterpillars, trains, spiders, balls etc. All except one child told stories. The boy who didn’t tell said, “Aunty I know the story but I don’t want to tell”.