STORYTELLING...
We all tell stories, some of us even make a living out of it. At the moment I've been doing a few extra Storytimes and we are now endeavouring to not only make them fun, interesting and educational (who knew 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, once I caught a fish alive was about counting?) but dynamic and interactive as well. This often means bringing in puppets, props or toys and using these to help tell a story. A few weeks ago I told the story of The Three Little Pigs. I used some puppets and a white board. For each pig we drew their house. First a straw house, then the log house, then the brick house. The children had to help the Big Bad Wolf huff and puff the houses down. The kids loved it. When it was time for the brick house there was so much huffing and puffing that I hate to think how much spittle I was covered in. Stories, of course, are everywhere and we hear them everyday. It doesn't take much to make them come more alive for children. Little Miss and I made a unicorn s...