Saturday, September 27, 2014

Grumpy Bird ~ StoryMob

             This week our community performed a second StoryMob. 
We decided to do it on Raise-a-Reader day to help promote literacy in
                                      our community.
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We chose the book Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard because he was the guest author/illustrator at our regional library summer reading program.  We offered a few pre-mob activities leading up to the event.
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A story time in a local park was a good opportunity to introduce the book to
                          families who weren’t familiar with it.
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          We practiced copying Grumpy Bird as we walked around the park.

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Also we had a few days where families could attend events to make animal masks.  Our local art gallery opened on a Saturday to run a mask making day too.
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       The day of the event started with building a nest for Grumpy Bird.
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  We gathered our material in front of the art gallery and twisted grapevines
          together to make a circle.  Then we used bamboo to fill it in.
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  The gallery provided some softer material to line the nest making it
                       comfortable for lots of birds to gather.
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  Once all our main characters were assembled we started the story.
                          Bird wakes up grumpy.
     Too grumpy to eat, play and even fly so he goes for a walk.
As he walks he passes some of his friends and they decide to walk along with
                                        him.  
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A young girl, of 8 , painted the above posters to put in business windows.  They provided the narration of the story and some advertisement leading up to our
                                                  event.
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We continued around the city block meeting all the characters in the story
                           making our mob grow larger.
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All the characters followed Grumpy Bird and copied his actions which cheered
                                 Bird until he was happy.
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We flew back to the nest to have a snack of worms (gummy, of course).
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    It was so much fun to share a terrific story with so many people.