For week 3 I was joined by Hannah the Adventurer. Hannah is doing a placement with Starcatchers through Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Hannah will be assisting me through the Story Pages project and is keeping her own blog of her placement HERE.
This week was midterm at Glenbrae. This meant that the Butterfly Room (3-5s) were on holiday but there were a few young people who attend the out of school club (5-12s) in the centre this week. To ingratiate ourselves with these young people, us adventurers got involved.
I lost a game of table football and a game of pool while Hannah was being beaten at Mario Kart on the Wii, it’s a hard life as an adventurer.
Our book this week was ‘Press Here’ by Herve Tullet . I’d chosen this book knowing I was focusing on the 2-3s. The book starts with a yellow spot and gives instruction to “press here”, on the next page there are 2 yellow spots and further instructions throughout the book.
I was pleased to see how well this book worked with the older children, it gave Hannah and I a chance to sit individually with young people and go through the book with them. One boy even asked “is this book magic?”.
With the 2-3s we had the book at the ready but also had materials to allow the children to make their own versions.
It was great to have some of the Children from the Sunshine room engaging directly with the book and I was really impressed when Max decided he was going to copy it.
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