Thanks Everyone for coming to our meeting!
Here is a recap of the meeting:
We had 13 attending and Maria Medina, the Executive Director from Denver.
Executive Director Visit
- Maria talked about current developments in the Spellbinder organization. We have new background checks for new tellers in the future by CBI. (Colorado Bureau of Investigation) We also may need to do follow up background checks in the future to remain current, but that may occur in about 3 years We also are as organization trying to be consistent in our training of new tellers and a Training Policy update was shared with all trainers in January.
- Maria also talked about the role of the SRC (Spellbinder Resource Center) and its relationship to chapters. The Council of Trustees oversees all the changes and will be evaluating the membership fees currently under consideration for all Spellbinder tellers. She encouraged our chapter members to submit volunteer of the month nominees and to apply to serve on the Board of Trustees.
- Recently there has been a bit of tension between professional storytellers and Spellbinder tellers doing larger venues. She shared a “What we do and what we don’t do,” sheet to clarify.
I have enclosed all the documents Maria shared below:
Congratulations! Service Ribbons were awarded for years of telling!
3 years John
4 years Trish, Sherrie
5 years Denise, Karolyn
6 years Celia, Julie,
9 years Jo
10 years David, Marianne, Meme, Sarah
11 years Bob and Sherry
Preparing for the end of the Year
- Teacher surveys were sent to teachers last week. Please thank them for completing the survey and wish them good luck in winning the $25. Barnes and Noble prize for completing survey before May 15th.
Enter your Data please before June
Please go on https://tinyurl.com/steamboatdatasheet
- Click on your name at the bottom
- Enter the months you have visited the classroom(s) and at the end of the row you enter number of kids in you class. If you are having trouble let me know
- You can list your stories as well for future reference, check mine if you like to see where it goes below the yellow rows.
We shared ideas for the last visit to your class, here are a few ideas:
- Make up a story with your class either by using a Mad Lib approach of fill in the blank (ask for words from class before telling the story) ie something to eat, a kind of animal, a place, a problem…
- Story bag: put words, pictures or items in a bag and have a student pick out for making a story together
- Ask kids to give you ideas for a story in April that you then put on sticky notes that you display and create a story using their ideas
- Have students make or finish sentence as you create a story together; there was once a…. , one day….
- Meme hands out a storyteller badge
- I shared a short story; Why Wisdom is Everywhere, an Anansi story which symbolizes why all the listeners in your class have a piece of wisdom (story) to share with others.
I have attached handouts below:
Coming Events!
Great Telling, Listening and Teaching!
May 15th: Grounded : 6:30 pm Library Hall
The dirt on public lands: an evening of multimedia storytelling to honor Colorado Public Lands Day
June 10th: Family Fun Summer reading Kick Off : Noon Library Hall
Spellbinders to tell stories (TBD) if you are interested please contact Sarah at the library 879-0420 (X 314)
Junior Storyteller class
Spellbinder tellers NEEDED for helping with a storytelling worksop series at the library on the following dates below. Come help Cindy and Sarah and have a blast nurturing young storytellers learn this amazing craft! Contact Sarah if you can help!
June 10 : 4:45 – 5:45 pm
June 11 : 4:45 – 5:45 pm
June 17 : 4:45 – 5:45 pm
June 18 kids perform stories for audience
Summer Storytelling at Book Trails
Details are coming after dates are given, but the telling opportunities include:
Thursday evening at the Fletcher Barn or Reading Ranch site for campfire stories
Tuesday or Wednesday In town at local parks, library or Spring Creek Pavillion etc.
Not expected to do more than one, but take as many as you like!
What a great audience to tell stories too… and there could be a “theme,” Remember these kids are at a BOOK camp!
And other Storybits:
Here is the book from Celia’s friend from Newfoundland
Story-gami: create origami using folding stories
Here is a book available on Hoopla from the library for origami storytelling
What a great group of Humans! Leading the way, one story at a time!
And not to forget those we missed!
A Warm shout out to Julie hope you are doing better Brett.
Bob we miss you! Hope to see you soon!
Good Luck Trish in Scotland!
Hope to see you at the library soon Jo!
Happy Spring to All!
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