Course: The Crafty Puppet Makers, Ages 5 to 6
Storytelling Arts in Education: Nurturing Early Childhood Language
Puppetry and storytelling classes for young children and their caregivers
Classes embrace children's social and emotional well-being
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Who
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Children ages Five to Six and their caregiver
What
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Bringing Stories to Life for Young Children
Where
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Teacher’s Home Studio, Public Library and Online
When
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Typically offered once each quarterly season, three 90 minute class sessions
Why
• Storytelling enhances oral speech, hearing, and language development. A child begins to attach meaning to words and sounds, gains the ability to discern language and develops a working vocabulary.
• Puppetry is welcoming, inclusive, inspires awe and contributes to shared universality.
• Emotional Social Learning (ESL) promotes engaging with others, developing empathy and regulating emotions.
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How
• Group sizes range from 4 - 8 children, an adult family member participates with each child
• Sharing stories, making puppets, building puppet stages and creating puppet play
• Cooperative and interactive play-based, supported with story prose, rhyme, song speech and movement
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Goals
• Support the refinement of language development in the adult brain and in the brain of young child
• Develop protective factor of resilience through attachment and relationship between adult and child
• Build a child’s mental imagery through pretend play and utilizing active imagination
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Skills Taught
• Develop voice for storytelling to build warmth, wonder, and meaning through heart-felt sharing
• Learn ways to promote, support and protect the hearing of young children
• Lean into trust, exploration and courage through the process of imitation and creation
• Build adult’s confidence for incorporating storytelling and puppetry in the home
• Explore techniques for puppet crafting and sharing a variety of puppet forms and staging
• Utilize storytelling as an educational vehicle for learning action equals consequences
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Fee
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Programs typically consist of 3 classes. Average program costs is $18 ($6 per class)
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As a children's community service program class fees are often waived
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Teacher Credential and Qualities
• Sandy Kerns, MEd, MSW, Inactive LCSW
• Master of Science Degree in Educational Leadership, Master of Science Degree in Social Work and (Inactive Licensed ) Clinical Social Worker
• 37 year combined teaching counseling career in educational, community, and private practice settings
• A caring teacher sensitive to the needs of children and their families
• Class atmosphere of respect, motivation and joy
• A teacher that holds thoughtful space for child’s development at their own pace
Please contact us for registration information and group dates.
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