Simply at home

 Story Telling Day 8 Since yesterday there was a bit of "oh the same story" and disinterest. Today we are going to look into an already heard and read story of Little Ganesha and magical mango from a book. Aim : Reintroduce the story to child to check comfort into the story listening zone. Achieved : Happy to relate to mango since its mango season in India now. My lesson as a story telle r: While I have told this story many times when he was a toddler, when reintroducing this book today, realized that i have been telling this way to lengthy with to many characters and sounds to it.

 Story Telling day 7 Aim : Child to observe and relate the story heard all these days via a motion picture from Youtube. Achieved : Tired and disinterested.  We just switched off TV and searched kitchen to eat something. Now me have to get creative for tomorrows story telling See YA.

 Story telling Day 6 Aim : To have child point at least at one of the cards as the story is told. Achieved : Child identified with happiness the flying card of the crow. To another question to identify another card child got thirsty and ran away ;) What should I aim at tomorrow ?? 

 Story Telling Day 5 Aim : Eye lock and eye gaze with adult who is telling the story. Achieved : Story told as per grandma style, feeding time. while having lunch, story told to child. Full eye contact established looking forward to next steps of the story while having lunch. Successful first 5 days of story telling. Lets see how else we can take it forward tomorrow.

 Story telling Day 4. Aim : Child who has sound production to attempt imitating min one sound from the story. Achieved : Child imitated one sound KAKA and attempted another sound. Lets take one day at a time one step at a time towards greatness in life. Happy child that he was successful in attempting imitation of sound.

 Story telling - Day 3 Aim : Child to view the picture card as the story is told. Achieved : Child viewed card to the story already heard these days. Happy kid at end of story.

Story telling Day 2 This is a story almost every other home has repeated down ages to infants and toddlers. Well so have I when my child was a toddler and he would enjoy this bed time. Twists would be there instead of CROW identifying POT he will search for a TAP since we live in the city finding a POT filled with water was unrealistic. Aim today : Introduce the story picture cards. Achieved : Sitting and scanning the card while i introduced the story again. One day at a time one step at a time is my agenda.  Lets see how tomorrow shapes up.

 I have always believed that story telling is an art. And also felt that it was never my cup of tea. However decided to take a plunge into it. Thanks to the group of parents enthusiastically working and helping each other in their own paths of 100 day projects that I flag off and hope to update where and how I am able to continue in this journey. With my son who needs facilitation in language development, stories play and important role in sequencing and imagination building. I just realized its been almost 5-6 years since i attempted telling him stories. Day 1 With the help of life smart goals, I have dusted and pulled out all those stories I have already tried telling in the past with an assumption that it will be easy to associate and to gain attention of my son. One of the story being the THIRSTY CROW, materials collected for visual and cards made on day1. Link to the making of the same below for reference. See ya tomorrow with an update on Day 2. More ideas are welcome please ...