Do you want to tell your own stories but sometimes find it a bit difficult to get going? Here are some ideas to get you started. Each one is the beginning of story that you can grow in any way that interests your children!
Cat Catty
Posted on May 7th, 2013 | Author: Carole Bloch
Here’s a silly little story to read and act out like a play, with 3 or more parts. The ending is left open for you to finish yourselves. One day a mouse went to visit a cat and can you guess what the cat was doing? She was sitting and sewing… The mouse said: What are you doing Cat Catty, Cat Catty, What are you doing...
Continue readingA silly thing to do
Posted on November 29th, 2012 | Author:
One rainy break time, all the children had to stay inside the classroom. After they had finished eating, some of the children decided to make up a new hip hop dance together. It was fun until Tara said, “Hey, I know, let’s dance on the desks!” She jumped onto a desk and… slipped right off onto the floor! ‘Ow, ow, my ankle,’...
Continue readingThe dirt monster
Posted on November 29th, 2012 | Author:
Every morning, Siraaj’s father drives a truck. It is not an ordinary truck because it squirts water and has big, round brushes at the bottom near the wheels. Siraaj’s father says it is a big dirt monster that eats up the rubbish people leave behind in the streets and washes and scrubs the streets too! He says it is a good monster...
Continue readingThe giant cabbage
Posted on November 29th, 2012 | Author:
One day Zinthle’s granny sat and watched day Zinthle picking tomatoes in their garden. ‘Here, Granny, taste this,’ said Zinthle handing her grandmother a round, red tomoto. “I grew it myself!” ‘Thank you, Zinthle, you really have green fingers,’ said Granny. Zinthle laughed. ‘I don’t think so, Granny. I just use Uncle...
Continue readingAnimal rescue
Posted on November 29th, 2012 | Author:
Early one rainy morning, David woke up to the sound of “miaow, miaow, miaow” outside his bedroom window. He ran and woke up his dad and together they went outside to look. They saw a tiny, thin, black kitten hiding up a tree. “She looks very scared and weak,” said David. The kitten looked at David and miaowed even louder. “I...
Continue readingA special day
Posted on November 29th, 2012 | Author:
Thandi woke up feeling very excited. It was her birthday and she was NOT seven anymore! “I’m eight years old, I’m eight years old, I’m eight years old today,” she sang to herself. Eight sounded so much older that seven. Seven-year-olds couldn’t do what eight-year-olds could. Her mom had said that she could stay up to eight...
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