snail tales
Quite a few of our families are heading off for holidays at the moment, mostly to sunny spots such as Fiji or Queensland. As the children’s interest in snails hasn’t waned, we asked them what sort of holiday a snail would have considering they move so slowly. The sorts of ideas the children came up with were “The next plant” or “The next door neighbours”.
We asked them to think about what sort of holiday they would like to go on if they were snails and they came up with some great destination ideas like; the moon, the supermarket, Queensland, Fairyland, the beach, the footy and the city!
They drew their snails, …
… some drew their holiday destination too.
Then an adult wrote the holiday story out for them …
… if they couldn’t do it themselves.
One child who wrote his own said, “I wanted my snail to go to the circus, but I didn’t know the word. Then I thought he could go to church, but I didn’t know the word, so he is going to the farm because I DID know that word!“
At the end of each session the children read out their own stories to the others.
Then we made their stories into books …
… for everyone to enjoy.
Tags: collective nouns, snails, stories, story writing
