“. . . a staple in my classroom each year. Adding sound effects and singing, we try to anticipate the turns on Sycamore’s story road. It is interactive, and you never know what you’re going to learn but there’s always something new, worth knowing.”
Pam Dean, 3 rd Grade Teacher, Prairieview Elementary, Lee’s Summit, MO

How we work together

What to put in . . . what to leave out: my first concern is to meet the wants and needs of my host and the audience. If my contact doesn’t offer some direction, I ask for ideas with theme and content.

Pre-school and early elementary audiences get lots of animated interaction with wholesome themes and sing along participation.

Upper-elementary programs tend to mix, mingle folk tales, personal reflections, humor and the nature of nature with a moral to the story.

Middle School age groups open up to a wide range of material. With a shift in language and timing, the same stories that work with younger audiences do very well. Add to this, Story that reflects historically correct life and times from world history as well as from our own legacy.

High School programs entertain with humor, irony and historically significant tales. Personal experiences and original stories bear out the importance of nature in balance, of writing, journaling and how Oral Tradition fits into the techno-era.

With adult audiences there is a desire to reflect on another time. Story joins us in the universal experience, and allows us to revisit our own unique place in time as well.

Senior audiences tend to love Story, all stories that end in a safe place. Sometimes we tell the sad-true story, but always come back to the safety of our togetherness.