Students to tell their stories
Students from Clow Elementary and Gregory Middle schools in Naperville will share the stage with a nationally known storyteller and author.
The storytelling students will be the opening act for Antonio Sacre, the Naperville Reads 2012 children’s author. The free public event begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in North Central College’s Wentz Concert Hall, 171 E. Chicago Ave., Naperville. Free tickets are available at all three Naperville Public Library buildings and at Anderson’s Bookshop.
The students will perform “The Storytelling Song” and then student storytellers Naomi Keane and Kylie Bickler will present individual stories. The young storytellers underscore the NapervilleREADS 2012 theme, “Everyone has a story: What’s yours?”
“We’re very excited about this opportunity to tell stories in front of an appreciative audience,” said Sue Black, the storyteller-in-residence for the two school groups.
The group of fourth- through eighth-graders began working on their stories early in November. They first presented “The Storytelling Song” in January at a Naperville City Council meeting where NapervilleREADS 2012 received a mayoral proclamation marking January and February as “NapervilleREADS month.”
Thirty-two members of Tattle Tales club are fourth- and fifth-graders from Clow Elementary. The remaining 19 are sixth- through eighth-grade students from the Fellowship of the Legend group at Gregory Middle School. This is the 10th anniversary for the Clow group and the first year for the group from Gregory. They will also perform at a spring storytelling festival.