Story Hunt

I lent one of my StoryWalks to a fellow StrongStart facilitator and she shared with me her idea of going on a Story Hunt.
      
She hid the pieces of The Very Hungry Caterpillar in the forest by her school and the families went hunting for them.  I decided to do the same thing with our Big Buddies.

The big buddies went out in the morning and hid the pieces. 
       
                     Then took their little buddies out to find them.
 
 
When all the pieces were found they headed back to the field so we could tell
                                            the story together.

           
                      
As I told the story the buddies fed the pieces to a caterpillar, that I made from
                           a coffee can, until the butterfly came out.

 
              After the story hunt we spent a bit of time on the playground.
  
    
We finished with our Icky Sticky Bubble Gum song.  This is our last time getting together this year.  Our big buddies have been compassionate and enthusiastic partners.  We wish them the best in high school next year.

Emerging Butterflies

    This week our butterflies have started to come out of their chrysalis.
 
   We took a close look and then went to the art table to create our own.
 
                  
                  We did some mock tie dyeing without the tying.
         
                  Another day we did ink blotting using paint.

Then when the children went home I removed the caterpillars from the chrysalis
                            and added a butterfly.
     
The first day just a few butterflies were out then the next day I added more. 
               The children searched the board for their chrysalis.
     
                           The hallway looks very colourful.

Fairy Lane has Re-Opened

Yay, after a long winter working with our city Fairy Lane has been re-opened.  I posted back in early April that the city had created signs and they have now been posted, one at each end of the Lane.

I invited adults into the centre one evening to make new doors as the first homes.

They were so creative and we ended the evening with thirteen wonderful doors.

 They are now tucked away behind stumps and at the bottom of trees waiting for Fairy Believers to find them.

When the city posted the signs they also cleared away a few trees that had fallen across the path.  They were thoughtful to leave the stumps so we could create a meeting place.   Looking forward to celebrating International Fairy Day on June 24th. 

I hope you can take some time to visit Lerwick Woods and the magic of Fairy Lane.

StoryRide

Last week during our Bike at the Playground we did a StoryRide.  It's like a StoryWalk but instead of walking we rode our bikes from page to page reading the story.

I chose Duck on a Bike by David Shannon.

The pages of the book were set up around our school.

As they rode they stopped and waited for a grown up to read it.

By riding around the school the children experienced a variety of surfaces.

Riding on pavement, loose rocks and grass.

The children became confident with riding ahead and 'reading' the page while they waited for the grown ups to arrive.

We ended up back at the playground for a snack.

Biking at the Playground

It's Bike to Work week and we took part by organizing fun events at our school playground.

The families started by decorating their bikes with balloons, ribbons, and license plates.

Or they washed their bikes.  I noticed most of the children washed only the wheels.

Then they were ready to ride the figure 8 course.

Some of the children recognized and knew what to do at a STOP sign.  

Not everyone though.

The video shows some near misses so we started to give a bit of direction and instruction to keep traffic moving safely.

The most popular part was riding through the bike 'wash'.

Around and around they went.