Books that inspire

Folktails - how we connect as humans

2011-09-17T04:59:00.001-07:00

An interesting books that bring animal legends from around the world, and it's link from story to story, the first story is "Elephant and Hare", the second "Hare and Tortoise", then "Tortoise and Crane"

By reading each stories, I found it quite interesting that in different cultures, we all try to explain things from nature in way of forktales, and the ideas are similar.

Story telling with chlildren

2011-09-10T00:56:00.000-07:00

Such a wonderful book about being a storyteller for your children:

and some of the books that this book recommends:

When talked about how to memorize a story, one way to to use a dance - form or direction. Stories move along in organized patterns, and recognizing these patterns helps us remember.

A circular story moves steadily in one direction and return safely to its original
eg. The Mulberry Bush

A spiral moves out and returns us along the same route, slightly or perhaps greatly changed.
eg. Pelle's New Coat

An accumulation story piles up to a finale containing all the details of the story, and sometimes reduces back again to the original form.
eg. The Farmer in the Dell

also,


Linear stories move out toward a new destination, gaining strength sometimes through repetition, such as:



Stories that end with a moral:


on story structures from around the world

Variation to old stories:

A good exercise with children to imagine your story characters coming to a castle or a cave where the pictures are on the wall or have the children step int the picture and tell what's on the other side. Some inspiring model:

About education

2011-09-08T04:07:00.000-07:00

“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be transformed.

The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”