Story Sack Refection:

In my “Learning through Literature” course I assigned to write a story therefore, I wrote a

useful story that helps children in literacy and reading skills. The story name is “My Grandma

Farm” is about a girl called Mariam went to the farm with her grandma and she hears animals

sound, the target age is 3 to 5 years old. This story is considered as a poetry genre because the

story includes a repletion of sentences and pattern of animals’ sounds arranged. For example,

“cluck cluck” here the child will repeat the chicken sound. “Poetry is the language of the

imagination, of feelings, of emotional self-expression, of high art” ("Children's Literature,"

2009). Consequently, “My Grandma Farm” book is promoting child with imagination skill when

they copy the animals sound.

There are strengths areas and weaknesses aspect in my story sack project. In my view, I

think, the story is fabulous, attractive and interesting for children, it’s a colorful and has nice

images. I believe that my story helps children to develop their fundamental skills which are

imagination and physical. Imagination because I hide the animal’s pictures in the story,

therefore, when the children hear an animal sound they will think and imagen what this animal?

Link to Waldorf Schooling Methods he believed that “Imagination is at the heart of learning”

(Spielgaben, 2013). Physical ability because I hide animal’s pictures by the color paper as a door

so, the child will use their small muscles such as hand and fingers to open the door. According to

“Reggio Schooling explained, “Children learn best through a multi-sensory approach”

(Spielgaben, 2013). In addition, the story text is simple and easy to children to understand. Also,

the pictures are expressive and match to the text that makes a child has a deep understanding.
Furthermore, the story is poetry because it’s has a sequence of sentences repletion such as

“Mariam heard” and sounds and I think children love a poetry story. According to Fisher &

Natarella's (1982) and Terry's (1974) studies on children's poetry preferences, they found that

“Most children preferred narrative poems over lyric poems” ("Teaching Poetry," 2009).

Furthermore, I prepared a successful literacy activity that promotes children with writing skill

and I think tracing activity is the best activity for kindergarten students because it assists them to

know the letter direction and recognize the capital and small letter.

However, there are a weakness that I can change it for next time. I may change the book

size because it’s too big for children to hold it and flip it result of that, in future, I will do the

story in A3 size, so children can hold it easily and flexible. I think I used a poor quality of

materials that maybe fall if the child try pulls up strongly such as pearl that I used to write a story

name. Consequently, in next time I will turn to sewing the story name to save the story for a long

time. Furthermore, I prepared an easy math activity that children will finish it quickly and they

will sit without doing anything which is wrong. Therefore, next time I will plan on steam activity

which is referred to make the activity that supports and encourage children to think, observing,

problem-solving, building, creating and exploring. (Carla, 2017). For instance, I can do account

operation activity instead of counting because the operation activity will encourage children to

think and solving the operation problems when they think who many animals I should add to get

4 as an example.
 References:

Carla. (2017, January 9). Engineering for preschoolers & STEM activities.

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Spielgaben. (2013). Comparison among Froebel, Montessori, Reggio Emilia and Waldorf-
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Teaching poetry to children. (2009). Retrieved from

http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CLit/poetry_teaching.htm