Arts and Culture United States Project #9220

Teach Literacy through the Arts in DC, MD, and VA

by Story Tapestries Inc.

Teach Literacy through the Arts in DC, MD, and VA

Project Report | Apr 12, 2016
Creative Storytelling - by Student!!

By Grace Millar | Program Coordinator

WE HAVE REACHED 90% OF THIS PROJECTS GOAL!!!

Thank you for your continued support

We love our students and schools we get to teach at. Jessup Elementary is no exception. The teachers and student sthere are remarkable. We recently had a few classes submit some original writings about Greek Myths. Student creativity is AMAZING. Check out this work submitted through Mrs. Donor’s classroom:

Original Greek Myth Characters:

Zeus (King of the Gods), 100 years old, Powerful, Excited

Poseidon (God of the Sea) 112 years old, Aggressive, Angry

Athena (Goddess of Wisdom) 40 years old, Brave, lonely

Artemis (Goddess of the Hunt and Moon), 99 years old, Helpful, Afraid

Setting: On a Gigantic Cloud above an ocean full of dangerous sharks, Spring Thunderstorm, Chilly, The sky is a dark ominously gray color, huge undulating waves Problem: Poseidon stirs up the ocean creating gigantic angry waves. He wants to knock Athena off of the clouds and into the water. Athena bragged directly to Poseidon “I’m 1 million times smarter than you!” She is so cruel to him because he made fun of her yesterday. Artemis overheard and tells Athena that she’s right. Artemis shouts, “Poseidon is the meanie of the family.”

There were many examples from this school and we will send out more from these young "authors." What an exciting time to be involved in their lives. The creativity and imagination that pours from them is life changing. We LOVE what we do. We LOVE to impact students and thereby change the communities they and we live in.

Thank you so much for your support, please continue to advocate for us by sending this report to friends and family that would love to be part of this project too.

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Jan 21, 2016
Success in Vero Beach!!

By Diane Macklin | Storyteller & Teaching Artist

Dec 31, 2015
This Fall in Review

By Grace Millar | Program Coordinator

What an incredible Fall for Story Tapestries!!!! Over the last 4 months, we have completed 6 long term residencies and multiple family events in MD, DC and FL. All of the programs were supported by Story Tapestries artists, donors and grants written by the Story Tapestries' team in collaboration with other organizations. If we wrote about all of them, than this report would be incredibly long, but you can read more HERE.

Recently, we worked with all of Kent Island Elementary School's 2nd grade team. Without the Story Tapestries matching funds to support this work, it would not have happened. The PTA paid for a portion and they wrote a grant for another piece of the pie but that still was not enough. We appealed to our donors and raised enough money to spend 4 days with each classroom. It was a powerful experience for both the students, teachers, and the artist...The teacher's said that they observed during the work students who never shine, who never add their voice to a story, talking up a storm.

At the top of December, we launched a new section of our partnership with The Learning Alliance to coach teachers and early childhood center directors on how to improve the way they use multi-sensory strategies with their 0-5 year olds...On Saturday December 5th, Arianna Ross, taught the first Saturday workshop, Harnessing the Power of the Arts: Teaching Literacy, to over 60 teachers from Indian River County. We used elements of storytelling, dance, drama, visual arts and writing to increase the teacher's ability to develop their students' emergent literacy understanding, cognitive power, fine and gross motor development as well as their knowledge of the core subjects.

...Besides giving the teachers a range of strategies, we found that there was an added success, a community of early childhood educators, who now knew each other at a deeper level, spoke the same language and wanted the same results for their children.

Our goal was for the team to leave the workshop with activities to support purposeful play, help them meet their FL Gold Standards, and to develop their ability to ask open ended questions...One educator left the workshop saying that now she is planning to incorporate children's imagination into their learning by asking open ended questions. Another mentioned "I like reading, then acting out, illustrating and surmising what happens after the written word ends." The overall response to the start of this pilot program was "GREAT workshop!!"

Thank you so much for your support, please continue to advocate for us by sending this report to friends and family that would love to be part of this project too.

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