After a year of Zoom meetings and Google Meets we are back in front of students again! Wahoo! We currently have 9 Active tellers with 3 in training and one now in Arizona… We have added another school for telling with the Sleeping Giant school and hope to start telling again at Yampa Elementary in South Routt. We currently are telling in 26 classrooms with the hope to add a few more in the coming months.
Welcome New Spellbinders!
Back to school meeting September 2021
At our Fall meeting we explored using clear masks so our faces would be more visible to the audience and found at this point that the cloth masks were better for students to hear us. Even better is a chance, weather permitting, to tell stories outside with a safe enough distance to take off our masks. One important consideration is to use a microphone when inside a classroom to amplify your voice. Thanks Marianne for sharing different options with face shield and mask!
October Meeting: Happy Halloween!
We started the meeting with checking in with how everyone is doing with their classrooms. We still have several teachers who do not have a teller, and we are looking at the guest storyteller model. I will contact the teachers and see if they are interested. It’s always fun to look for new Halloween-y books available at the library that are fun for storytelling. I have posted a list of suggestions on the resource page as Halloween Stories. I also posted 13 Tips for Telling Spooky Stories…
Fall is also a time for Storytelling festivals. This year the Timpanogos Storytelling festival in Utah was both live and available to view on-line. The National Storytelling was only virtual. We watched 2 storytellers, Carmen Deedy from the National Storytelling Festival and Carolina Storyteller from the Timpanogos Festival. There is something about live telling that just simply pops even with professional storytellers. You can still buy tickets to view the festivals. I really appreciated the live tellings from Timpanogos. If you are interested here is the link: https://timpfest.org/
I also brought a few stories for Thanksgiving (list on Resource Page) and a new book that the library just added:
The sea-ringed world: sacred stories of the Americas
Author:García Esperón, María,
Want to listen to a scary story?: Donna Washington does a version of Wait Until Martin Comes…
The Big Spooky House or The Ghost with one Black Eye…
Want something Really Creepy… try Mary Culhane and the Dead Man by Ingrid Nixon
Or… The Storyteller Joe Hayes: La Llorona The Weeping Woman or El Cucuy
Here are a couple of short poems for Halloween Transitions!
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