Your child takes a real moment from their own life and learns to tell it as a clear, gripping story in two minutes. They find the shape, cut it to the bone, and tell it for real. One of the most useful skills a person can have.
Ages 6–14 · Activity guide · 3 skill levels
Your child shapes something that really happened into a story worth listening to in two minutes. The limit is the teacher. Saying what matters and cutting everything else is the heart of good communication, and it is much harder than talking for ten.
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Designed by a teacher with 15 years of classroom experience, now homeschooling her own kids.
