This elephant knows great stories. Let's listen to one!

A briefcase especially decorated for story time. What is the story today?

A storage frog made out of party plates. A piece of cake!

A happy frog to take care of my pencils.

Cartoon strips to cover storage boxes or cans? Great idea!

This is a sign to control the mood of the class. A clip on the red sign indicates there's no game at the end of the class.

Where to keep all those large sheets and left-overs? Here's the right place.

We can't forget our students' birth days! This chart helps me remind them all.

Young students love to talk about their feelings. Here's a chart for them to pin and for me to know how they are feeling.

Assigning a helper gives me some extra time to focus on other things - monitoring the groups or selecting materials. The helper has to hand out / collect worksheets, erase the board, tape flashcards, and so on. Here's a chart for everyone to know who the helper is.

A new semester has started! Isn't it nice to welcome the students with a sign like this?

What's the weather like today? The helper is responsible for updating the weather chart every class.

Is everybody in class today? When students arrive, they pick up their name cards and put them in the slots taped to the charts.

My daughter Clara loves the Backyardigans. I used this glove to make the puppets and tell her stories. Sometimes she tells me the stories.

Let's put all the magazines we are going to use for specific projects in a shoe box! It looks better when you decorate it.

Craft foam is a versatile material to decorate empty cans. Here's an idea.

What to do with empty milk cartons? Cut the top out and make a storage box for colored pencils!

A frog to keep pencils and pens? Good idea!

Where should I put all those clips? Why don't you recycle a small plastic bottle and make a pig out of it? A good place to keep small clips.

Make a stage out of Styrofoam and craft foam for your favorite stories. Do you want to hear the "Old MacDonald" song?

Do you have a big box you don't know what to do with? Just cut a square out, wrap it with felt, decorate it the way you want, and make a great stage to tell your favorite story!

I love surprises! Use this surprise box to guess what objects are hidden inside. Just touch them! You can't look inside!

This is a game for you to play when you want to practice vocabulary. Put the cut-outs in a plastic bottle, fill it out with Styrofoam, shake it, and identify the word according to the color selected.

This is a great place for you to keep all your puppets. You may also use it as the scenery of your story!

Let's Sing - Three Little Birds, Connie Talbot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKG9yaHpcWA

A Games Slideshow

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Use all your imagination and creativity to tell a story. Use a beautiful scenery made out of felt, craft foam, and cardboard, as well as your favorite characters taped to a glove. Let's start!

Do you like to play Tic-tac-toe? Choose a friend and say who those school materials belong to. If you say three sequential lines correctly, you are the winner.

Oh, oh! What's in the beak of these birds? Choose a number and try to guess.

Imagine using a telescope to identify the pictures taped to the walls! It' s a lot of fun!

Play and Learn

Using matchboxes, you can play with vocabulary. Here's an example of a game for you to practice the spelling of family-related words. Just tape the key images to the top of the boxes and the respective letter cut-outs inside them for you to form the words. It's nice to do it in pairs.