Third year (3A)

Class 3A learned about a new way to tell stories. It is called "Kamishibai" This means" Paper Play" in Chinese. It is an ancient form of telling stories in the form of a small portable theatre, where the storyteller went from village to village. It is still used in China and Japan.

The boys and girls chose a story about Woolly Willy, a sheep who lived on an enormous sheep station in Australia. Woolly Willy played with his other lamb friends and Nipsey, the sheepdog. One day all the sheep were rounded up and taken to have their fleeces cut off. This is called mustering time. Woolly stood very still whilst the wool was cut off his back and tummy. He and the other sheep loved this activity because afterwards they were very cool in the hot Australian summer. And the humans liked it too, because they could use the wool to make clothes to keep warm in the winter.

In our photos you can see the children drawing and coloring beautiful pictures to illustrate the story.

 

They wrote the text and stuck it on the back of the previous picture.  

This is so that when the audience is looking at the pictures the students can tell the story from behind the wooden theatre and change each picture as the story unfolds.

 

 

 

We liked preparing and telling our Kamishibai story so much that we went down to the infants class and showed them - they loved it too!!