✏️Welcome to Silly Stories!  Get $3 off your first class with coupon code MAYHELLO3 until Dec 18, 2024. Get started at https://outschool.com/classes/silly-stories-storytelling-with-captivating-story-starters-1st2nd3rd-grade-OmxP60E6 and be sure to enter the coupon code at checkout.

✏️In this ongoing class, learners will explore the art of storytelling through fun and engaging discussions that lead to exciting, creative short stories. We will work together to develop vivid characters and settings as well as build captivating plots. With a blend of imagination and interactive activities, a story will begin to form!.

✏️Every class will kick off with an engaging story prompt to spark creativity. For example:
       🍎Imagine a chair suddenly started to fly at a birthday 
                    party. 
       🍎Once there was an apple orchard and in that apple 
                    orchard, there lived a  ___ . 
        🍎What would life be like if you were only 1 inch tall?
        🍎The candy bar whispered to the ice cream, ________.
 In addition to the story prompt, 3-5 “Star Words” will be introduced each week. I will challenge the students to use them all in their stories in any way they like. (Some examples of “Star Words” are celebration, shocked, mysterious, enormous, behave, crowded, etc.)

✏️After having some lively group discussions, along with lots of laughs, we’ll dive into planning.  As a group, we will work together to develop amazing stories!  Characters will be created, settings will be established, and plots will be developed.  

✏️The goal of this class is to inspire learners to delve into their imagination to come up with fun and exciting short stories while they familiarize themselves with various basic story elements. Each learner is encouraged to record the story by drawing relevant pictures as we along the way so they remember it and are able to retell it to family and friends.


✏️This class is perfect for any storyteller who is eager to bring their ideas to life and share them with others. Learners are given the choice to write their story using their own words (and adding illustrations if they like) or to simply draw it out (using captions or word bubbles if they choose). 

✏️Everyone is welcome to join this ongoing class as often as they'd like! Silly Stories is designed so learners can jump in at any time.  Skills aren’t built upon each other, so it’s not essential to attend consecutively. I'm eager to take this storytelling adventure with you!

✏️If you don't see a day or time that works best for your schedule, please send me an email or request a day/time.  I promise I will do what I can to make something work! 

✏️Welcome to Silly Stories!  Get $3 off your first class with coupon code MAYHELLO3 until Dec 18, 2024. Get started at https://outschool.com/classes/silly-stories-storytelling-with-captivating-story-starters-1st2nd3rd-grade-OmxP60E6 and be sure to enter the coupon code at checkout.