Storysheet



Choose your characters and objects and make your own picture.

Learning opportunities

• Excellent for early math language and concepts - vocabulary of positioning and counting - behind, in front, under, on top, alongside, left/right, nearby, almost, in a row, closer, altogether, how many, take away, add etc.
  
• Vocabulary of rotation and comparative size: around, upside down, all the way around, small, smaller, smallest, big, bigger, biggest, twice as big etc.
  
• Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
  
• Experiencing cause and effect.
  
• Choice and individuality.
  
• Imagination and empathy with characters.
  
• Narrative, creative, sequencing and story skills.
  
• Opportunities for extension of color vocabulary.
  
• Opportunities for extended concentration and rewarding revisiting of site.

Beyond the screen

• Encourages interest in story worlds, writing stories, illustrating them.

Questions

• Let's make a story. Where shall we put everyone?
• Can you make Little Dog Fido really small and far away? Will the others look for him?
• Can you make the shell bigger than everything else? Where shall we put it?
• Creative/imaginative: I wonder if we could make a little book of all our stories?