Croton-Harmon Kindergartners Practice Stewardship, Storytelling

From CHUFSD: Kindergarten classes at Croton-Harmon’s Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School recently participated in a two-part initiative that involved a local field trip and classroom workshop.

Students visited the Jane E. Lytle Memorial Croton Arboretum, a non-profit organization dedicated to environmental stewardship, before returning to their classrooms for some storytelling.

In the classrooms, master storyteller Jonathan Kruk engaged students in a story about the sun, using dynamic movements and descriptive words. Students were then challenged to create their own endings to the story about waking up the sun.

Some students chose gentle, quiet methods with which to wake up the sun, such as singing the sun a song; while other students delighted in narrating and drawing pictures of the sun being woken by loud instruments and other noises. Kruk guided students’ creative endeavor before the storytellers shared their endings with their peers.

Photos courtesy of the Croton-Harmon School District (Following a trip to the Jane E. Lytle Memorial Croton Arboretum, kindergarten students from Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School participated in a storytelling workshop with master storyteller Jonathan Kruk.)