How do authors and illustrators weave information that they know into stories? Stories that are personally relevant help children understand the difference between fact and fiction.
In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create figurines that represents themselves, then illustrate scenes from a story as they imagine “what if I was there?”
Understanding stories involves listening and visualising. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create sketches based on a story they have heard or read.
Children will then make connections between their story sketches and other personal experiences where people heard or saw things differe...
People measure all types of things everyday: distances walked, sizes of clothing, quantities of food and time for cooking.
In this activity, children aged 3-7 will trace their feet and cut them out to use as non-standard measurements, then create pictographs to represent the data they collect.
Addressing time in stories helps children understand how sequence impacts the narrative of any story – personal, real or imagined.
In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create illustrations that reflect the beginning, middle and end of a story in order to understand time as a relative and ...
