Today was our first day working with our storyteller in residence, Karen Gummo. She lit a story candle and she brought basket filled with storytellers. She had a story man, story mother, and a story bear. Then she told us a story about Whispering Woods. The story started like this "Whispering Woods, Whispering Woods, what are your secrets? Tell them to me!" After the story we imagined that our classroom was Whispering Woods. When she sang a special tune we shared what we "discovered" with a person next to us. After that we started a sketch of Whispering Woods and the things we imagined seeing there.
This afternoon we started sharing our animal clues. We read our clues to the class and had 4 or 5 guesses before we told the class our animal. Before we started each group did their own dress-rehearsal so that they were sure they were ready to perform. We also played a guessing game on the computer. It is about animal sounds.
Here is a link to the game: http://www.kidsplanet.org/games/js/whoami.html
Tomorrow our helper is: Carissa
