HuaEE Creative Storytelling

Aihua Lu, EE Huayi, graduated from the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She has worked as a kindergarten teacher in the UK, a lecturer in Chinese language and culture in a college, a Chinese culture consultant for kindergarten students in the UK, a senior educator, and a creative children's story writer. She started her writing career in 1991 and wrote the column "Voices from a Foreign Land" for the European edition of Sing Tao Daily and "Looking at Britain" for the British Silk Road Times. Finally, she turned to writing more than a hundred articles for the "Auntie Hua Tells Stories Series" for Hong Kong Sing Tao Sunshine Campus, which was published once a week, and also included interview manuscripts for "Weekend Sun". In 1995, Sing Tao Sunshine School selected 15 stories from the "Auntie Hua's Storytelling Series" and compiled them into a story picture book with exquisite color illustrations. The other two published story books include "Why are others beautiful?" and "Locked Mood".

Hua EE has many stories ready to share with everyone. In the past, Hua EE shared her creative stories every week in <<Hong Kong Sing Tao Sunshine Campus>>. She has written more than 100 stories suitable for children aged 4-8 to read. In addition to the stories, there are also interactive extension activities to enhance children's learning. The current electronic version can be found at <<Natural Play — Innocence ONLINE>>. Parents can use the following story clips to tell stories with their children. After telling the stories, they can carry out extension activities to consolidate learning and stimulate more thinking. If you want to listen to the radio drama version, please go to the <<Hong Kong Radio CIBS Fairy Tale Program>>. Each episode of the program has original music and sound effects to interpret thirteen picture books, and musicians, artists, parenting experts, etc. share their experiences, recall childhood with the audience, and encourage parent-child interaction.

Hua E E's creative story

1. Pet Competition

Did you know that small animals can communicate with humans just like children? Did you know that small animals can express their emotions such as happiness, anger, sadness, love and hate? To know more, please listen and watch the pet competition story. If you want to listen to the radio drama version of "Pet Competition", please go to Hong Kong Radio CIBS: Fairy Tale and Innocence Program (Episode 6: Cultivating Empathy) .

2. Uncle Xinxin’s dream of becoming a farmer

I guess children living in cities have never dreamed of becoming farmers! But have you ever thought that the milk, juice, vegetables and fruits we drink are all grown by farmers? Let’s go to Uncle Xinxin’s new farm together! If you want to listen to the radio drama version of “Uncle Xinxin’s Farmer Dream”, please go to Hong Kong Radio CIBS: Fairy Tale and Innocence Program (Episode 13: Nature and Life) .

3. Xiaodong lost his temper again

It turns out that losing temper can have negative effects on our brain, heart rate, and hormone secretion. If you don't believe it, look at the changes in Xiaodong's body when he loses his temper. If you want to listen to the radio drama version of "Xiaodong Loses His Temper Again", please go to Hong Kong Radio CIBS: Fairy Tale and Innocence Program (Episode 10: Emotional Roller Coaster) .

Regarding the experience of reading the story, Hua EE believes:

1. Reading stories is priceless. It is such a valuable experience for parents to enjoy reading with their children, or for parents to read stories to their children or for children to read stories to their parents! If there is something that money cannot buy, it is a priceless treasure. Do parents realize that they have paved a smooth path for their children's studies, future life direction and career?

2. Why is reading stories so important? Words influence a person's ability to think and behave. If a person can master a rich vocabulary, his or her expressive ability will be improved and he or she will be able to use words more fluently in daily life. The better your writing skills are, the more you can discover and develop your personal potential. Possessing good communication skills helps build relationships with elders and peers. The more a child can express his or her inner feelings and emotions, the more it helps the development of his or her character.

3. In daily life, parents can help their children improve their reading ability. In addition to story reading, you can also read the text that you can observe in the surrounding environment, such as advertisements, slogans, newspapers, magazines, food packaging and signs, etc. Go to the library to apply for library cards for your child, listen to what your child says and know his or her interests, give your child a variety of choices, do homework with your child, play games and read or listen to stories, be sincere to your child and set rules and promises, communicate with your child in a positive and optimistic manner, hug your child and tell your child "I love you", etc. These are all good ways to improve children's speech and writing skills in daily life.

4. After reading and listening to the story, the educational significance of the extended activities can enhance children’s various thinking abilities and methods, including improving and training their knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creativity and imagination, and association, etc.

5. How to read stories with children? Parents can choose an appropriate time and place, such as before bedtime, talk about pictures and illustrations, play with words, express the words vividly with sounds, and enjoy reading. The ideal situation is to be able to hug and be close to your child, without necessarily reading every word of the story. The same story can be read repeatedly or in role-playing format. Parents can read, children can read alone, or everyone can read together. The most important thing is that everyone enjoys the reading process.

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