Thursday in Gatton with Catchy Lockyer Stories

The delight of young children today. Kaori and I went to the Lockyer Early Education Centre and the Gatton Kindergarten. We had lots of fun. I had the advantage of being able to see children's faces as they burst in laughter and joined in with such gusto.

I love having a 'drink of river' from my water bottle in between stories and listening to their shocked voices calling out 'That's not river. That's water.'

At the Lockyer Early Education centre we created a story about the wind and a magpie in the tree the children were sheltering under. They saw the magpie take a worm up to the nest in the tree and feed its young. When the wind blew again the little magpies were cold so the children knitted some jumpers for them - a maroon one and a blue one.

When the mother magpie put their jumpers on the fledglings started to play football in the nest.

One boy knew that Queensland had won the first match of the State of Origin so that was cool and the magpies were warm.

At the Gatton Kindergarten we had fun creating a story about two children going fishing with their Dad in the local lake. They had to be rescued by a pelican who also helped them catch some fish.

Fishing was definitely a popular topic with the kindy kids.

Kaori and I had a good yack on the footpath afterwards about the success of the tour and the need for doing more stories and digital stories again.

I'm looking forward to the Saturday workshop at the Fordsdale Hall with the other artists. Should be fun. I only hope the weather is fine so we all don't have to be inside the hall at the same time.

Thank you to all of the teachers and students who joined in with our Catchy Lockyer Stories Under 8's Week Tour.

Daryll