The Shell Seeker

I am still working on my master list of verses and movement activities for worker circles and updating my blog post about The 12 Professions. When reading through The Breathing Circle: Learning through the Movement of the Natural Breath today, several of the verses caught my eye as being a really good fit for the latest story from Suzanne Down’s early childhood puppetry newsletter. The story is The Shell Seeker and it takes place on a beach. Zac and I have been taking a break from Circle Time while on vacation but I miss it and would like to bring it back. What better topic for a beach vacation than a beach circle, and here are the verses and movement activities which jump out at me from The Breathing Circle:

Rocks to Stones, page 84
Swooping Gulls, page 91
Rolling Seals, page 92
The Mermaid’s Purse, page 103
The Tide Comes In and the Tide Goes Out, page 104

Of course you could also have needle felted puppets while you tell the story (Suzanne makes some to go with this story) but I think the best thing to have with this story would be an enormously big beautiful shell.

Day One
do Rocks to Stones verse to introduce story

tell story

Day Two
do Rocks to Stones verse to introduce story

begin story, stop after first sentence of paragraph two to say, "sometimes she would see Swooping Gulls"

do Swooping Gulls verse, then continue story to end

Day Three
do Rocks to Stones verse to introduce story

begin story, stop after first sentence of paragraph two to say, "sometimes she would see Swooping Gulls"

do Swooping Gulls verse

say, "sometimes she would see Rolling Seals"

do Rolling Seals verse, then continue story to end

Day Four
do Rocks to Stones verse to introduce story

begin story, stop after first sentence of paragraph two to say, "sometimes she would see Swooping Gulls"

do Swooping Gulls verse

say, "sometimes she would see Rolling Seals"

do Rolling Seals verse

say, "she would watch the tides go in and out"

do The Tide Comes In and the Tide Goes Out, then continue story to end

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