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Robin Sharples : Stories for schools
- Storyteller

The Storytelling was brilliant

Eastham Parish

A range of lively activities to:

  • Extend and develop listening skills
  • E nhance vocabulary and identify words such as nouns and verbs (naming and doing words)
  • Join in with many 'well known' rhymes and songs
  • Bring children into contact with elements of their cultural heritage
  • Give children experience of hearing traditional instruments ... harp ... accordion ... guitar ...
  • Give pupils a chance to explore characters and other elements of familiar stories.

Workshop activities include:

Nursery rhymes to learn and sing
F inger games to play
Making up our own number rhymes
Riddles to solve

Stories include:

Red Riding Hood
Cinderella
Jack the Giant Killer