Language and Story-telling

Topics include:

• Describing the wind
  • Words such as: breeze, gust, gale, tornado, hurricane, blowing, breath, flatulence, storm, blustery, draught, puff of air, zephyr, typhoon, whirlwind, tempest
    
• Making up stories about kites
  • Do kites like trees?
  • The kite that flew into the clouds
  • The kite that was so strong it pulled me up in the sky so I could see a long way away
  • The kite that talked to children
  • The kite that chased the dog
  • The kite that danced a lot
  • The red kite and the yellow kite
    
• The word for “kite” in different languages
  • le cerf volant – French
  • drachen – German
  • layang layang – Malaysian and Indonesian
  • tako -Japanese
  • aquiloni – Italian
  • uchutma/ucurtma – turkish
  • vlieger – Dutch
  • cometas _ Spanish
  • manu tukutuku – Maori
  • eitleog – Gaelic
  • barcutiaid – Welsh?
    
• Songs about kites
  • Lets Go Fly a Kite – Mary Poppins