Programs for Children
Programs and assemblies can be designed to meet the needs of your school or after-school programming.
Cultures
Every culture, tribe, and nation has developed and shared stories, and that means social studies (studying the social constructs of culture, tribes and nations) must begin with the folktale – the collected wisdom of the people.
Stories from the Folk and Not-so Folk
A combination of folktales and personal stories from all over the world
Ghostly Stories
Some downright scary, others not-so
Another Way West
The story of my great grandfather's journey around the Horn in 1855 to San Francisco and how he became the first Pony Express rider EAST. A version of this story for Middle School students involves my great-grandfather's participation in the dislocation of the Shasta Nation. Hear a Story.
We Are All Immigrants
Folktales and personal stories
When Do I Know I'm Not An Immigrant And That I Belong Here?
Folktales and personal stories
Women as Leaders: Wangari Mathaai
Take a look at Kenya and Nobel Laureate Wangari Mathaai
Women as Leaders: Helen Keller as an adult
What happened after The Miracle Worker?
Stories from Old India
Jakata Tales and Kipling's pourquoi tales
Science Stories
"Numerous studies show that people tend to remember facts more accurately if they encounter them in a story rather than in a list or other narrative forms." -- Gerald Zaltman, How Customers Think
Rocks Rock!
Grades K-2 or Grades 3-5:
Stony stories containing pebbles of discovery
From the Ground Up
Grades K-2 or Grades 3-5:
Folktales and personal stories that show varieties of geography (the land and related human activity) of all sorts and conditions from all over the world
Folktales & Personal Stories of the Solar System
The constellations, the sun and moon, our galaxy
Plants Are Definitely Not Sow-Sow
Grades K-2:
Folktales and personal stories that proclaim the relationship between people and plants.
Grades 3-8:
The life work of Wangari Mathaai and/or the establishment of today's Sensory Garden by Helen Keller
Fees Are Negotiable
Contact Jane at 847-751-0523 or email Contact * stenson.stories@gmail.com