Welcome to ‘The World of Stories’
Story Telling
The storytelling classess held at The Story Monkey are highly interactive, fun filled and high energy.
Aashima uses various performing art forms to narrate a story. At times she reads to them, at times she uses puppets, props or sometimes she just enacts it out to them. Every storytelling class is a completely different experience.
Art & Craft
Art & craft activity is an important part of every storytelling class. It engages children’s senses in open ended play
and develops cognitive., social- emotional and multi sensory skills, essential for life-long learning.
Role Play
Through incorporating role play in the art of storytelling, The Story Monkey aims at bringing out a child’s unique style
of self expression. When children do role plays, they naturally become someone or something else. Role play stimulates their imagination and enhances their social development, encourages friendship through cooperation, listening and turn taking.
Why Stories
“The best way to teach people is by telling a story”
– Kenneth Blanchard
Stories are how we learn and the best way to understand our world. These storytelling workshops help the child become socially confident and develop a sound vocabulary, while giving them a good command over the English language.
All our learning is done through stories and role play, as we truly believe that the stories make the lesson learnt very powerful and life-long. We feel that storytelling is one of the greatest contributors in an overall personality development of our children. We believe starting early makes 20 times more impact, as a child’s brain is yet to learn how to multi-task, hence more focused and ready to absorb. From class room to board room, its all about storytelling, be it a fairy-tale or a sales pitch.
Meet The Story Monkey
Here is a short story about an advertising professional who one fine day decided to quit her corporate job and pick up something more fulfilling.
Her passion for kids, along with her fondness for telling stories made her tread on a path unfamiliar. She kept getting divine signs and hidden messages, and finally reached her destination, The Story Monkey. The storytelling workshops are held in Noida and Delhi (NCR).
Aashima Mishra
Founder Director of The Story Monkey
A master storyteller, with formal training in story telling from Kathalaya, an affiliate of the International Storytelling Institute, Jonesborough, TN, USA
She has done her Bachelor in Fine Arts & Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication, and has more than 13 years of experience in the communication industry.
What we do
The Story Monkey is a cute corner where every kids’ imagination finds expressions. We take the kids into a jungle full of stories, where the kids are encouraged to dream, imagine and cultivate a sense of wonder. We make learning fun for kids, and we also nurture every child’s creativity, develop oratory skills and out-of-the-box thinking through various creative, critical thinking and public speaking activities.
The workshops at The Story Monkey are tailor made for each age group as per the children’s developmental needs, with activities designed to teach them something new in every session.
It is interesting to see how every child gets hooked on to stories at this cute little reading corner.
Story time. Grow time
The storytelling classes held at The Story Monkey are highly interactive, fun filled and high energy. Aashima churns out a new story every time, dedicating each month to a different and captivating theme. Her story narration is followed by engaging art and craft and lots of role play. Children enact out various roles from the stories, and have lots of fun learning.
Learning made fun
We take stories to classrooms, in order to make learning more fun and interactive. The lessons learnt through stories and role play are lifelong and permanent in nature.
Rendezvous with stories
The Story Monkey also goes to private storytelling events, whether it is a community get together, a birthday party or just a group of kids wanting to rediscover the pleasure of spending time together listening to stories.
