Family Event: It All Began With a Squiggle...Creative Storytelling for Young Learners

A free virtual class for children ages 4-7 offered through Outschool. Space is limited and registration is required. For the children of eligible UMass Grad Employees and Postdocs.

Class Description:

Storytelling is a beautiful bridge between your imagination and experiences to written stories.

During this class, we will use a small squiggle to inspire early learners to use their amazing story telling skills to develop a story based on their drawings. This class is all about planning and telling stories. If learners feel inspired to write down or record themselves telling the story after class with an adult, that would be a fun extension. In class, our focus will be on planning and telling our stories together.

During this interactive class, we will spend the first part of class looking at a squiggle and developing a story all together. I will draw  for the whole group for this part of…