Story-telling: learning to engage an audience
Talking in front of a crowd can be challenging for anyone. And actually engaging that crowd, even more so. However, as with anything, practice can help.
As part of their unit, students from year 3 are studying Ancient Civilizations, specifically the Mayans. They learned about the importance of different types of Gods in the Mayan culture and the masks that were used to represent these Gods.
As part of the mask creation they needed to keep track of the materials they used and the process they followed. They then listened to different types of Mayan stories, learning how archaeologists found them and how the writing was deciphered. Then students wrote their own stories.
They practiced telling them first in their own classroom and then visited the Preschool/Year 1 students as story-tellers. Preschool is a hard age to keep engaged, but the students showed that they could sit and listen appropriately and even gifted the story-tellers with a nice round of applause and lovely greetings. It was very clear to us that the teachers in Preschool/Year 1 have made great progress with their students regarding courtesy. Thank you!
