How do you keep children enthralled when storytelling?
First of all, you need to choose the right story- right for the age, interests and experiences of the audience.
Choose the story because you like it too. (Apart from those “old favourites” you may know by heart, but your child absolutely loves!)It’s then time to have fun […]
You can find fabulous places to grow kids imagination when you get out and about.
Sculptures by the Sea,now on at Bondi, Sydney, has some massive imagination prompters.
How about clambering into an enormous frying pan?
At Tamarama Beach, Sydney they can climb in now!
Further along the walk is a tractor that looks like it could fly…
….and […]
Rhymes are a fun way to help children develop skills of listening to sounds and patterns in words.
Here are a set of 3, good for younger children.
Use them at Halloween, or anytime, but especially when sharing stories about witches.
Each rhyme can be printed out on one page. I always laminated my rhymes so they […]
An all-time favourite,the witch from Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (Macmillan Children’s Books) is just right for Halloween stories before school.
The characters were even chosen for one of London’s famous book benches.(Visited by the 100 Stories Before School kangaroo earlier this year)
The book has bright and cheerful illustrations. There […]
Looking to have some fun at Halloween?
Not toooooo scary though for our littlies?
I’ve found some stories, rhymes and activities to stretch some of that imaginative thinking.
Who could imagine lovable skeletons that are not scary…
Try these ones-
This clip is from the book Funnybones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. (Picture Puffin, Penguin Australia).
My copy is held […]
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