Going for a Storywalk® is now a fabulous and fun way to entertain little people in Martinborough.
With the walk fresh in the ground, 50 children from Martinborough School and Martinborough Kindy attended a guided walk through Considine Park as part of the recent Wairarapa Walking Festival. A perfect way to celebrate the Story Walk project coming to fruition. A collaboration of Wairarapa Library Service and the now disbanded Friends of Martinborough Library group who raised funds for children’s library projects.
The activity prompts mean that the children not only had the pleasure of hearing the story but honking, buzzing, waddling, moving fast or slow, zigzagging or walking backwards!
Teachers who joined the walk are keen to revisit the StoryWalk® when it changes in December and integrate it into learning.
We have opened with local story but with the festive season we are having a quick change to The Fairies’ Night Before Christmas, written by Sarina Dickson and illustrated by Sarah Greig. It is a lovely festive story about working together, with beautiful fairy-made decorations and the reds of Aotearoa’s Pohutukawa tree in the pictures. Thanks to the author and illustrator and HachetteNZ for permission to use the Story.
In the new year Mr. Phelp’s Fish truck will return and be the perfect summer holiday read, and why not finish it off with some local fish and chips!
The StoryWalk® will evolve and you can follow for updates at wls.org.nz
