All Blog Posts Tagged 'stories' (9)

Indians Around the World Celebrate Makar Sankranti by Flying Kites

Childhood memories of waking up at the crack of dawn filled with excitement of what the day held ahead come rushing back on the day of Makar Sankranti each year. The day is celebrated with great fervor in many states of India, marked with special sweets exchanged with friends and family, and above all flying kites. The tradition has been carried over by generations…

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Added by Ruchita Parat on January 28, 2013 at 2:50am — No Comments

Online Stories for Children

Find eleven great stories including The Snowy Day and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? http://www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/en/preschoolers/read.htm

Don't miss this site. There are a large number of books read aloud. http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp

Choose a story read by an actor… Continue

Added by Michelle Breum on January 15, 2010 at 3:12pm — No Comments

What makes a teacher?

Here is a presentation in a series I produced. (get all of them, all inspirational, on EFL Classroom 2.0) about what is the defining character of a teacher. I'll let you watch and not let the cat out of the bag. Let me know if you agree....…

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Added by ddeubel on July 6, 2009 at 2:40am — No Comments

Teaching Struggles - Some medicine.

I have the honor and privilege of quite often giving end of year, end of course, graduation and other speeches to teachers. I take it seriously and usually end with a story. Stories work well and inspire. One of the ones I've used most often is this one - MAKE A DIFFERENCE. But I have a number of personal anecdotes and also folktales. You can read many others in the… Continue

Added by ddeubel on June 9, 2009 at 3:39am — No Comments

SANTA'S STORIES COME TO LIFE

a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/4538698">SANTA'S STORIES COME TO LIFE

Please share with your students if you like.

I bet you have all heard of Santa Clause, in fact I know you have because of all the millions of letters I receive each year from you all, but I imagine that most of you do not know very much about where I live and all of the creatures who live with me in the North Pole and help me make Christmas so special.

I was concerned… Continue

Added by Santa on November 4, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Download all 18 Santa Stories for $1.14

Santa has made this affordable download to offer the Child in all of us a brand new way to enjoy Christmas for 2008.

Santa Clause, also known to many as Father Christmas or sometimes St. Nick (an abbreviated form of his real name Nicolas), is a well-known figure associated with Christmas and loved by many across the world. It was this popularity, especially with children, which prompted him to write a book for the enjoyment of… Continue

Added by Santa on October 25, 2008 at 1:44pm — No Comments

A Bedtime Story for Your Heart

My nine year old son cleaned off his book shelf last month and put all of the books he didn't want into a "give away" box.

I brought that box into school yesterday to donate to various primary classroom libraries, but decided to take a look through the books he deemed too "babyish" for him first. I set the box down on the table in the teacher's lounge and dug through it. Lo and behold there it was The Emperor's New Clothes. You know, the 6 inch "Golden Books"… Continue

Added by Michelle TeGrootenhuis on August 19, 2008 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Santa's Alphabet

I hope you are enjoying your summer!

I want to create a Christmas Alphabet to help teach Children. I will put it up @http://www.santalivenow.com. It will have a free down load so you can share with your students. Any ideas please help Santa out.

Thanks

SANTA’S ALPHABET

Advent Calendar (Dino)

B

CHRISTMAS

D

ELF

F

G

HO! HO! HO! (Dino)

I

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Added by Santa on June 17, 2008 at 12:26pm — No Comments