Story boxes

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Practice sorting animals and story retelling with Julia Donaldson's Where's My Mom

"Goldilocks & The Three Bears" is one of our favourite books. When we read the book together Minnie loves to join in with the repeated refrains, & gets so excited when the bears return to their house with Goldilocks still inside! This is the version we have been reading together I've used story sacks at school & wanted to create something similar for Minnie, so with a little hunt around the house I found some props to add to our 'Story Box'! Goldilocks & The Three Bears Story Box The Three…

Kindergarten blog for teachers in the classroom. Ideas for homeschooling as well. Free files to your with your students.

How to create a retell literacy center in kindergarten. Plus a list of 20 famous stories and retell props (with printables) to complete this center.

There were 3 mistakes that I made and I am sharing them so you can avoid them! #1 I made story baskets for the stories I loved! #2 I put too much in them. #3 I thought I needed a new one every day

Goldilocks storytelling basket

I have been inspired to start creating story baskets with the children rather than for the children. This came about as children wanted more ownership and began to add items to the story baskets I had created. I was also inspired by another teacher, Katie Blomfield who I saw using the same items I had been using in my own story basket ‘where is the green sheep?’ but with the children to create a story basket.My version focused on fine motor skills and wrapping wool around the wooden sheep…

I'd like to say I'm a shoe box hoarder but fact is I like shoes! Not to the extreme but enough that we have a few spare boxes and can make some adorable shoe box