32: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“Places tell stories, and these stories are adventures one must explore. Nature, the people, and the smell of a new land screams adventure. The world is humongous, and a lifetime wouldn’t be enough to explore it.” A story always starts with a blank canvas -- an empty space of many possibilities. It comes to life when the storyteller fills it with wondrous worlds or foreign lands where the characters move and tell their narrative. It is a principal element of a story, one where the reader can escape to and take unprecedented adventures that only happen in one's imagination. This week, the kindergarteners learned about the setting of a story, and how it shapes the characters that move around it. The kindergarteners also had an opportunity to unlock the word 'setting' and to share some examples of their favorite places where stories happen. A setting can be: a castle unicorn land candy land the beach rainbow land Lego land What I love about the places the children shared i