Can you collaborate
on a floor book story?
Obj. 8b,10a,12b,14a,15a
Instructions:
Find a large comfortable area on the floor.
Place a large piece of paper on the floor and tape it.
Get markers and any other materials that can spark curiosity and may help to create a story.
Let your child decide what the story might be about.
Help draw some setting to facilitate and enrich the story.
Let your imagination fly high!
Powerful InterACTions:
Let’s think of a wild story today! What would you like your story to be about?
I see… let’s start with the setting. Where is the story taking place at?
Let’s find materials that might help you add to your setting. How can you sort them? Great thinking.
How do you imagine your characters? Who is in the story?
What else do you want to add?
I see you have a house. What is one word that rhymes with house? Great thinking! Let’s find one more.
What do you want to do with the remaining materials? I wonder what happened at the end.
Language Strategy
Exploratory Play: Let the child take the lead, then extend the play.
