April 12th, 2022

During our first Morning Meeting with our grownups on Monday morning, the children shared some of their ideas about the "Rainey Room Story" with you. Over the past few weeks, we have been working on creating a unique story book together, that includes different characters and takes place in various settings in and around the Rainey Room. 

What do you know about stories?
Sometimes words describe what's happening in the picture. Like if all of us kids was walking to school then it would say like "All the kids are walking to school and talking about what it's like outside". - Bea

What would your story look like?
A unicorn comes to school. - Cate
A ghost comes to St. John's and scare all the children. - Frannie
It would be like a haunted house. - Daniel
When it was snack time, the ghost skeleton comes in and steals all the snack and made a big mess and then we were like "What?" And then the skeletons come back the next day. - Bea
If the ghosts are white and the white paper how can you even draw the ghost? - Wilder

Characters are people that do stuff in the story. They can be [people and] dinosaurs and ghosts. - Bea

​Characters created by children in the Rainey Room, including, ghosts (unicorn ghosts, skeleton ghosts and moth ghosts), Rainey Room children and dinosaurs:

Every story needs a setting...
Where it is. - Lucas 

for our Rainey Room Story idea, we needed to stage
​"Messy Settings" in the classroom and around the school...

​We are excited to share more about our amazing
storytelling work ​with you soon!