Winter Loose Parts and Oral Storytelling
"We are all storytellers, We live in a network of stories. There isn't a stronger connection between people than storytelling." Jimmy Neil Smith Children communicate their thinking in many ways. The development of oral language is just one aspect of how children communicate. During this stage of development in the early years of childhood, children communicate with longer sentences and begin to create and tell stories. It is such a magical time as we see and hear the brilliance of children’s thinking. It’s been a wonderful week filled with creative play as the children explored the above wintery loose parts tray. They have shared their thinking in multiple ways and we have enjoyed listening to their creative stories. Children’s stories grow in complexity as they have repeated experiences with materials and their peers. Through dramatic play, exploration of open-ended play materials, and when they create art children build language to express what the...
