Powerful Story Chats
What is Powerful Story Chats about...?
Listening to stories, telling stories, being interested in stories, creating stories, and talking about stories is a powerful gift for humans. In our story chat sessions, the adults listen to the stories with the students and everyone participates in a discussion about the story. This is how we learn about new words, new worlds, new people, and new experiences.
Each fortnight we will have students evaluation of the story we have been working on and a youtube link to an audio version of the book for you to listen to with your child/ren.
Story Review Time
Term 2 Week 8
“Being Frank”.
Review by Noah and Angelo.
Words or phrases we connected with: being “frank” means being honest. It’s good to be honest. “Serving the truth with more sugar and less pepper” means telling the good part of the truth so it doesn’t hurt people. You can still tell the truth, but in a good way.
What we liked: when Frank told the girl with freckles that he liked dots more than squares. It was nicer than telling her she looked like the Big Dipper.
We didn’t like the part where he told the girl that her singing sounded “shrieky”.
Watch it here:
Term 2 Week 6
Story review by Zane, Angelo and Noah 23/5/23
“Somebody Loves you, Mr Hatch”
Star Rating -
Words/sentences that we connected with:
Lonely. We think the message of the book is even when you feel lonely, you’re actually not because God is always with you.
The other message is you should always make sure the package is addressed to you before open it!
The parts the students liked about the book:
We liked how the postman made a mistake, because if he didn’t, Mr Hatch wouldn’t have changed. We also liked how Mr Hatch’s friends and neighbours told him they loved him because it made him feel special and good about himself.
Watch it here
Term 2 Week 4
Story review by Zane, Angelo and Noah 9/5/23
“Please Please the Bees”.
Star Rating -
Words/sentences that we connected with:
“taking people for granted” means using them and not being grateful.
The part the students liked about the book:
The way the bear started helping the bees and giving them what they needed so the bees were happy and became friends with the bear again.
Watch it here
Below is the first Story review for this term.
Term 2 Week 2
Story review: Show the World
Star rating
Words/sentences the students connected with:
- “expressing yourself means introducing yourself to the whole wide world and showing what’s inside of you.”
The parts the students liked about the book:
- the ideas and ways you can express yourself, like getting a spunky haircut or inventing things like rockets.
Visit the link below to listen to the story
Below is the final story review for term 1.
Term 1 Week 10
Story Review - It's a Firefly Night
Star rating
Words/sentences the students connected with:
- My hand is a cage for 1 tiny star. The star means the 'beautiness' of the bug.
Note - beautiness isn't a real word, but it is one a student used in his response.
The part of the story the students liked:
- The students liked the activity of firefly catching as it had a magical air to it.
Visit the link below to listen to the story of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkz51Td9k5A
Week 8
Story Review by Noah & Zane. Gr 2
'Jabari Jumps'
Our rating of the Story -
Words that we connected with:
- breathe in and breathe out
- Jabari (as it was an uncommon name) - this is a Swahili name that means brave and fearless
The part of the story we liked:
Visit the link below to listen to the story of 'Jabari Jumps'