We've completed three out of
seven stories from our series "Around the World in 7 Stories". We
conceived the theme purely out of our lack of interest in Geography. We
realized that if we were to create a story series around Geography, it would
mean that we read through the subject force ourselves to think of how it
can be put forth in an interesting manner to children. Today, three
stories later, we are quite happy with our work, and so are the children.
We've completed three continents
so far - North America, Asia and Africa. We began our preparations by
creating a plan for all seven continents. In the plan we decided what aspect of
Geography we should cover. We decided to stick to providing basic facts about
each continent - number of countries, landmarks, languages and unique
facts.
The next step was to find
interesting stories. We spent many week reading as many as stories as we could.
And then the stories were remixed and tailored into our version so that they
could revolve around a continent. It wasn't easy in the beginning, but
slowly we got the hang of it.
We decided to use the laptop
(technology) as a supporting tool during our storytelling sessions. The laptop
is used to show pictures of continent and countries, and is not used to display
a slide show of the images from the story, because we want to leave the
"imagination" part to the children.
Children who have attended the
three stories know the location of all seven continents. They know names of
animals that are unique to North America, they followed a trail in Asia and
learnt about volcanoes of Japan, inventions from China and facts about Sri
Lanka and Israel, and finally they know about the unique creatures living in
the Madagascar Island of Africa and the number of languages people speak in
Africa. And all this they learnt through a story!
It has been a fun experience so
far, and we our now busy working on the stories for the remaining four continents.
So if you'd like your kids to learn
some unique facts about continents, or if you'd like to revise your Geography
knowledge, then come attend our storytelling sessions. We'd love to travel the
world with you!
Check our our storytelling schedule @ http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.301978406550596.71051.238449639570140&type=3
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