Story mapping
This week across our barn owl nurseries we have began implementing story mapping activities. Literacy and embedding the love of reading into our children is something that we are really passionate about at Little Owls and implementing other ways and means of exploring story telling, sequencing, repetition, extending imaginative skills and creating curiosity, awe and wonder.
Today Charlotte our deputy manager spent time with a small group of barn owls at Scarning to read ‘we’re going on a bear hunt’. The children had began the story confidently without charlotte needing to read the words to prompt them.
Having books with repetition is important for children for them to help remember patterns and key concepts.
The children also got the opportunity to use Charlottes special story stones whereby the children implemented these into their story mapping process reinacting and reciting different parts of the story.
“ I’m going to lock the door so the bear can’t get in”
“The cave needs a door so the bear can’t get out”
“I get dizzy in the snow storm”
“Long and deep water like this” whilst selecting the blue pen to draw her river.
“They’re leaving footsteps in the mud”
This will be a weekly feature in barn owls whereby children will get to story map with a familiar adult a number of our favourite stories.
I wonder what book will be next……
