What is a story stick you ask? Well, we saw this idea {somewhere on Pinterest} of using pictures to retell a story and attaching them to a rule or paint stirrer. We've always done retelling pieces using pictures from a story at our drama station, but this was new and exciting- not to mention that it was a good way to keep track of the pieces! We've been using plastic rulers (they're a few for a buck at Dollar Tree) and then attaching a strip of velcro on one side. We then put little pieces of velcro on the back of each picture. As the kids retell the story, they place one picture at a time on the story stick. By the end they've sequenced all of the pictures to account for all of the events. It's pretty simple, but it's an easy way to spice up the drama station! This week we're using I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie with the story stick. There's a link on the picture to check it out!
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie retelling pieces on a story stick! You can check it out here!
Here's a way that we've found to be useful to keep pieces organized. We use the small envelopes and laminate them with the title of the activity and place all of the pieces inside. It stays nicer than a bag, and stores flat!
Laminated envelopes used to store small pieces.
How do you keep your small pieces organized?
