General tips

Strategy :Wait for the child to react to a picture or cutout without being prompted in any way .

St sebastian’s  12. 7. 16

Class I. On seeing a picture of Geteppo carving Piniocchio out of wood. “ Oh  engineer. Robot banachhey”

Strategy: Using mime  to dramatise stories

4.1.14

Sundeep Kothari , a mime artist who is deaf taught the children how to  mime “walking”, “running” and “drinking tea.” He asked the children – Rana, Rajesh abd Abhishek to make up  a story with these actions  

The story : (with help from Sundeep) People walking. See a teashop. They start running towards it.  They ask for tea.  Pay money, Take tea cup from the tea seller. Sip. Tea very hot. Drink from the saucer.  Happy.

8.1.14

Mime is very popular with the children.  On Feb 8, the mothers also participated. The stories were from the VAANI story cards. “The girl and the umbrella:, “Dadaji has a fall”. Women filling water get chased by a cow”, “Buying a TV”.     

Sundeep demonstrates one story at a time. He mimes each character and makes every child follow him making sure that each child is able to mime all the characters.    

Some ideas for Storytime acitivities

3.5.15    Cut outs may be used to tell stories and recite rhymes. 

Show the children one or two familiar cut outs (put them on the flannel board or on the table in front of the children). Tell a story (make it up if necessary) and then use a rhyme . Make up the rhyme

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ask the children to tell a story or recite a poem using these pictures /cut outs.  They may repeat a story or poem which they have already heard or else they may create one of their own