[LM_NET] ELEM:storytelling festival

[Jayne Dambman <jdambman@CVAI.ORG>]

We are having a storytelling festival at the end of the year. I am 
wondering if any other elementary schools have had this. I'd love to 
hear a brief description of what you did. This is our first year in our 
new building with a mixture of 50% new students because we were 
redistricted. We began the year by having a One Book One School and 
having our K-5 teachers read Gooney Bird Greene to their classes along 
with a variety of activities. Then we had a storyteller come in and 
meet with each grade and just like Gooney our students learned how to 
tell "absolutely true" stories. They shared them with other grade 
levels in order to get to know each other. Now it's the end of the 
year. The students are all writing "absolutely true" stories about 
something that happened to them this year. We will bind these into 
grade level books - as a memoir for our first year. The storyteller is 
coming back and will work with a group of students so that during our 
last week, we will have an evening story festival. Students and 
possibly some teachers/parents will share brief stories. I'm sure some 
of you have had something like this and I would love to hear about your 
ideas. Please email me.

Jayne Dambman
Library Media Specialist
Chestnutwold Elementary School
School District of Haverford Township
dambman@havsd.net

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