Today I have a fun Bingo game that you can play with your preschooler or kindergartner to help them memorize their sight words. This is one of the crafts that is included in my 10 Free Sight Word Mailing List. Sign up now to get more of the fun sight word crafts all in one place.
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Filed under: Back To School,Preschool,Storytime
This story is from Jataka Tales
of ancient India. There are many great stories to tell from the Jataka Tales. They are great ways to teach morals and to entertain. Next time you go to the library, check out a book of Jataka Tales to read with your children. Price Wicked and the Grateful Animals is a good story to remind kids to be kind and good, especially with Christmas just around the corner
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Filed under: Animals,Jataka Tales,Storytime
This fairy tales comes from More English Fairy Tales
. The Three Wishes has always been one of my favorites. It can be so much fun to let the kids get creative and come up with their own wish stories.
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Filed under: A Bit of Everything,Folk & Fairy Tales,Storytime
This fairy tale about the fisherman and his wife is a great way to teach about greed and discontentment. It is important for kids to realize that it is ok to strive for excellence but that a line needs to be drawn to keep from losing it all.
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Filed under: A Bit of Everything,Folk & Fairy Tales,Folk Tales,Storytime
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Once upon a time there were three bearswho lived in a little house in the woods. There was a great big papa bear, with a great big voice. A middle sized mama bear, with a middle sized voice, and a little wee baby bear with a wee little voice.
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Filed under: A Bit of Everything,Folk Tales,Storytime
Once upon a time there lived a poor widow and her son Jack. Jack didn’t like to work hard and was frequently lazy. He didn’t like to help his mother as much as he should. Eventually, the widow and her son ran out of food and money and all they had left was an old milk cow. The widow told Jack to take the old milk cow to town and sell it so they could buy some food.
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Fall is in the air and I LOVE it! Fall is my favorite time of the year! The air is cooling and getting a chill, the leaves are turning and the lawn doesn’t need constant mowing! It is also time for animals to get ready for migration. The bears and turtles and frogs and other animals are getting ready for a long winter sleep. What a fun storytime to do about Fall in the Air and animals getting ready to hibernate. I found some super cute books to go with both of those themes and couldn’t decide which theme to pick so I picked them both. Read on for book suggestions, story time activity ideas and printouts and some poetry about fall and hibernation.
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Filed under: A Bit of Everything,Fall,Seasonal,Storytime
Today’s post is all about Autumn and books to share for Autumn,or Fall, Storytime. Before you start you can get creative and do a little Fall decorating in your Storytime area. You could place pumpkins, goards and apples around, maybe add some of that colorful Indian corn and some of the leaves that are falling everywhere.
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Filed under: A Bit of Everything,Fall,Holidays,Seasonal,Storytime
Fall is finally here. My favorite season of the year. It isn’t too cold yet, but it is no longer hot. All around the colors are changing and there is bite to the air that tells us change is coming and Santa is on his way!
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Filed under: A Bit of Everything,Fall,Seasonal,Storytime
Today on Crafts for Storytime, we have some Halloween story time ideas to share. We have book suggestions, poems and craft ideas in the form of coloring pages with that can be printed out for free!
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Filed under: Holidays,Seasonal,Storytime
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