About a year ago or more I saw some chatter about StoryWalks on Facebook. I thought - "How cool is THAT?" but could not figure out how to get one at my current location. Since then, I became a Head Librarian of a different location, one directly on the bike trail, and knew it was time to give it a try. StoryWalk® is a trademarked program, and belongs to the folks at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Vermont. This idea is *NOT* Library Village's idea nor do we take any credit or money for our Story Walks. If you would like to learn about this amazing program's roots, Click HERE. If you want to see some FAQ's on the program which will help you make your own, Click HERE. Essentially, if you credit the creator properly, you are free to use the idea in a not-for-profit setting like a library. Here's what the credit would look like: The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. OK, essentially a StoryWalk® is a way for families to read together outside, promoting literacy and fitness. The pages of a book are laminated and mounted on stakes and presented one at a time down a trail or throughout a park. They can be spaced as close or as far apart as needed. Families can stroll from one page to the next, or you can encourage movement from one to the next like hopping or skipping. For our first StoryWalk®, I laminated the pages of Duck on a Bike by David Shannon, mounted them on foam core with velcro, and then mounted those on wooden stakes. We did not make the sets as sturdy as the ones listed on the Kellogg-Hubbard library but this is because our StoryWalk® is designed for use near the library and for only hours, so weather is not a factor. With a little help from our Friends group, we have now done 3 StoryWalk®s and can easily make more. I try to use books that are about the same size each time - and reuse the rest of the materials. The approximate cost breaks down like this for us: Two books from the used book store - $6 Velcro - $10 Wooden Stakes - 8 foot long cut in two - $15 Foam Core cut in half - $15 The response has been wonderful! Families have said they love the books we choose, and love the idea. We keep the library copies of the books on display and families like to take them home. Our library has been asked to continue the program at all events, and other branches have asked to borrow our StoryWalk®s for their events as well. We have done three StoryWalk®s in 2014 in three different ways. Duck on a Bike was at our Summer Reading Kickoff party with the story pages about 15-20 feet apart down our bike trail. Next, at the end of the summer, we used The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear at a festival in town. We placed the pages around the perimeter of the festival. Finally we did an indoor StoryWalk® at Christmas Time! We used T'was the Night Before Christmas at an in-house and after hours event. No stakes or boards were necessary for this event. Besides, our Duck on a Bike set was on loan to another library event at the time. Once you have the first kit, adding books to your collection is a breeze. Things we learned from our StoryWalk® program were: know your soil - the soil nearby struggled to hold the stakes, so we modified this by using buckets with the stakes secured inside. Also, our lamination is standard for indoor use so rain will ruin the pages. You can see below how one of our arrows had gotten wet over the summer. I'll be making more arrows soon. Finally, Velcro is great for making the StoryWalk® reusable, but not great on a windy day. Keep your weather and the direction of your stakes in mind. For more information on StoryWalk® please visit the Kellogg-Hubbard Library Page. I'd be happy to answer any questions as well. They are only limited by your imagination. Thanks for stopping by!
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"Dog's Colorful Day" by Emma Dodd Story Walk: I manage two small Public libraries in Oklahoma and I have been wanting to do a Story Walk since I first heard of it almost 2 years ago. A Story Walk incorporates reading/literacy and the outdoors. It is usually set up in a local park, but can be us…
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Jesus Walks on Water I have the last two lessons out of sequence. That's what happens when you go on vacation and then try to catch up! So, Jesus walking on water comes before His Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. I'm not including an Easter lesson because at our church we have a sunrise service and no Sunday School that day. Here's the lesson on Jesus' Walking on Water. Print these out on card stock. I usually cut them out prior to the class because the younger children have a hard time cutting them out. Then, color your masterpiece! Ella colors her craft. Hannah, Mattison and Parker display their completed crafts. What fun!
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We pray for our owies every service in my class. When I say that its time to pray, each child wants to show me their owie that they want to pray for. It's quite adorable, nearly comical, to watch them search for the littlest scratch that they may have to pray for. They are actually disappointed when they don't have an owie to pray for. In that case, I tell them that they can help their friend pray for their owie. Before we pray I tell them to put their hand on their owie to show Jesus where it is, because He is the only one that can heal all of their owies. Their child-like faith is very evident in this moment, as they come to know Jesus as their healer. Bible Truth: Jesus heals me. Bible Story: Jesus heals a man who could not walk when his friends bring him to Jesus. Bible Study: Luke 5:17-26; Mark 2:1-12; 1 Peter 2:24; Psalms 103:1-3 teach Here are a couple different visuals to show as you narrate or read this story from a children's Bible. diorama drama This story also lends itself well to a 3-D diorama dramatization in order to show the paralyzed man being lowered through the roof. I created my diorama by inserting felt into a shoe box and then placing my flannel graph characters into the box. I made the paralyzed man and the bed according to the craft instructions found below. I tied yarn to the four corners of the bed, and used a craft stick on top of the box to hold the man in place after lowering him down. Release the yarn from the stick, so that after Jesus heals him the man can stand up, and "carry" his bed. (See the craft tutorial below.) bend and tell This is such a simple and genius way to tell this story! I have seen it a few different places, but I have no idea where the concept originated. All you need is four strips of card stock or tag board, a hole punch and three brads. I found the version displayed below here. http://kirstymcallister.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/in-memory-of-uncle-tom.html play four friend weave The four friends in the story did not give up on helping their friend. In fact their faith is quite commendable! In this game four children work together like the friends in the story. You will need: a pillowcase a doll or stuffed animal field cones or chairs Setup a few cones staggered across the room. Have all the children line up at one end of the room. Choose one child to be "Jesus" and stand at the other end of the room. Choose four children to be the four friends. Their task is to each hold a corner of the pillowcase, carrying the doll or stuffed animal, and weave around the cones to bring their "friend" to Jesus. If they drop their "friend" they must go back to the beginning. When they reach the end, have the child who is "Jesus" repeat after you saying, "Your sins are forgiven. Arise, take up your bed and walk." Everyone claps and celebrates, thanking Jesus for healing their "friend". Repeat, giving each child the opportunity to be a "friend" and/or "Jesus". craft coloring page Here is a coloring page to accompany this story. I suggest gluing four pieces of yarn for the ropes attached to the bed, and gluing a piece of cloth on the blanket covering the man. band-aid art In this week's story, Jesus forgives the man's sin and heals him. Print this simple activity sheet based on Psalms 103:2-3. Have the children color the heart, and then let them stick a few band-aids on the heart. Kids love the opportunity to put band-aids on by themselves! arise and walk This is the man and bed that I used in the diorama. The children can each make their own to take home and retell the story. You will need: this man template (printed on card stock) felt craft sticks scissors crayons glue hole punch brad permanent marker This man's legs did not work. He could not walk. His friends had to carry him on his bed. Jesus healed him! He forgave the man's sin, and told him to take up his bed and go to his house. To prepare cut out the man templates, and cut felt into 4 1/2" x 2 1/4" rectangles. Punch a whole in the center of the man's body. In class, help the children glue their felt pieces to craft sticks. Have them color the man, then attach the the man to the felt with the brad.
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This is a one line style where I draw everything without lifting the pen. This is based on the story of when Peter is walking on the water toward Jesus Christ and starts to doubt his faith. By doing so, starts to sink. Jesus reaches forth His hands, and saves him. We learn a valuable lesson from Peter that day. This is a PDF download. Once the item is purchased, you will be able to download the PDF form of the picture. It is formatted to be 8.5x11in, however, if you have photoshop, or if you go to a print shop, they will be able to enlarge it or shrink it because of the PDF formatting that it is in. Thank you for purchasing from my shop!
We are continuing our Bible studies about Jesus and His miracles. In this lesson, we are looking at Jesus walking on the water. Last week we studied how Jesus fed 5,000 men plus the women and children with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes. After Jesus prayed and thanked God for the food, He had the Disciples feed the crowd. After everyone had eaten, they gathered up all the leftover food and there were 12 baskets of food! (Discuss miracles: an instant act of God). This lesson is found in Matthew 14: 22-33, Mark 6:45-51 and John 6:15-21. Immediately after they collected the extra food, Jesus told His Disciples get into the boat. He told them to go to the other side of the sea and sent the people away. After Jesus sent the crowd away, He went up into the mountain by Himself to pray. When night came, Jesus was by Himself. Jesus had found out that John had been killed. Do you remember who John was? John and John were related & the one who baptized Jesus So Jesus is upset and wants some time to be alone and pray. **Let the students have a marble. Have them put the marble in a bowl of water. What happens when you put the marble on the surface of the water? [it will sink] What happens when you go into the water? You either swim or you will sink. We are going to talk about two people that walked on water! (Original idea found here.) They LOVE this! The boat with the Disciples on it was in the middle of the sea. They had rowed the boat about 3 ½ miles. There was a storm, and their boat was being tossed around by the rough waves! It was about 3:00 during the night and Jesus saw them having trouble rowing the boat and so Jesus went to them. Jesus knew they were in trouble and scared and He went to comfort them. Jesus actually walked on the water to them. Verse 25 in Matthew tells us that He walked on the sea! When the Disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were scared and thought Jesus was a ghost! They cried out in terror! But Jesus instantly told them to be happy and don’t be afraid! Peter said to Him: “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.” Jesus told him to “Come.” When Peter got out of the boat, he walked on the water to Jesus! The Bible doesn’t say swim, Peter walked ON the water! But when Peter saw that the wind was strong, he became afraid and started to sink. He had taken his eyes off of Jesus and let himself be distracted by the waves and the sea. He yelled to Jesus “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him and said to Peter “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” When they returned to the boat, the wind stopped. The people in the boat came to Jesus and were amazed at what He could do. They worshipped Him and said, “Truly You are the Son of God.” I used this Galilee boat that I purchased for the Disciples lesson. But, there are so many lessons this can be used for! I had the Jell-O 'water' and people cutouts ready for the kids to use and make this Jesus walking on the water this during the lesson. We added plastic fish that I purchase, but you can use Gummy fish. You can see more and print everything here. One of the things to discuss with this lesson is that Jesus is always watching over us. I made this simple boat for the students to decorate to remind them of when Jesus is with them. They can draw their thoughts, or you can let them add stickers. You can print it here in color and black & white. Click here to print. We continue Miracles lapbook today. The students will leave them in class until we finish the miracles lessons, then they take them home. Click on the lapbook to see it. I decided to limit this lapbook to the miracles that Jesus did to prove Himself. We will study Malchus, Resurrection of Jesus and Jesus Returns to Heaven, etc., but I did not include these. If you'd like to add other miracles, you can see more Jesus lapbook printables here. Bible Verse: Matthew 14:33 Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. Click here to download the lesson. Click here to download the visuals. Not all visuals are shown. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.)
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Once my beginning English language learners have built some vocabulary and are able to decode their emergent level books, it is time to tackle the skill of retelling. It truly is the basis of reading comprehension. Plus, it's an excellent way to build their oral language skills! My upper elementary newcomers have been in school here for seven months. They've been busy building their knowledge of basic (and content) vocabulary, focusing on spelling patterns in Word Study and learning many sight words in context. It is now officially spring (YAY!), and the school year is on a fast downward-slope. To get my beginning ELLs ready for their end of the year reading assessment, the one that measures their reading progress for the year, they must learn how to retell a fictional story. Over the past few months I've been introducing and reinforcing the various parts of a story. My students have learned about "characters" and "setting," and we've talked about story "problems" and "solutions." The next step is to retell a story from beginning, middle and end. Depending on my students, I may need to scaffold the activity by using picture cards. They use these cards to sequence events and recall details. Although I am giving them the important events in pictures, they will use their oral language skills to recount the events. Once I feel that they have a solid grasp on retelling a story, I have a couple more questions that I need to teach how to respond. Students have to be able think beyond the text, so I want them to be able to 1- describe their favorite part in the story and explain why it's their favorite, AND 2- make a meaningful connection to the story. This usually doesn't take much more than me modeling for them. Usually;) During this past quarter, each time we finished a guided reading book, I'd ask them to orally share their favorite part and explain why, AND make a connection to the story. Sometimes they share whole group, and other times they turn and tell a partner. My "newcomer group" practices the skill of retelling frequently, but we do it in different ways in order to keep it fun, engaging and challenging. An additional activity I like to use is this "Read and Roll" activity. They love it, I think, because they get to roll big dice! Once big dice enter the picture, somehow it turns into a game! I love it too because it gets them talking about the various parts of their book. I'm always looking for ways to get my students TALKING about their reading. I know that this solidifies their understanding AND builds their oral proficiency skills, plus they get a lot out of hearing their group members talk about the story too. My students also love these retelling cards. I pass one or two cards to each student and they take turns asking each other questions about their story. A super easy way to get students talking about their books is by creating a "Discussion Starters" anchor chart. Sentence starters are a great support for your beginning ELLs. When I first introduced the chart, I asked the questions, but once they had some practice with it, I turned it over to them to ask each other the questions. They always start with the person's name they are directing their question to. The person responding always starts their response with the person's name who asked the question. For example... Angie - Student 1: "Michael, tell me about your favorite part." Michael - Student 2: "Angie, my favorite part is..." Since Michael was the one who just answered a question, he is the one to ask the next student a question. I'm telling you, they love this! I'm going to be honest here... I had zero time to prep a detailed lesson on this day, so I grabbed a bag of books and off I went. Luckily, I always have big and small post-it notes in my caddie, so I grabbed these BIG neon colored post-it notes and wrote a B-M-E on them. Viola! My students slapped these into their reading notebooks and we were all set! Sometimes, lessons off the cuff turn out to be really good lessons, right?! I also like to use a Story Map graphic organizer to help students organize the parts of their story. They use this to "share out" at the end of our lesson. Usually I'll have each student pick one part to share out. They might share out to the group, while other times they might share out with a partner, depending on the time. FREEBIE There are lots of ways to develop retelling skills, and I recommend using different strategies and methods to get students comfortable with the various components of this skill. For beginning ELLs, of course they are just learning this new language while simultaneously learning the skills needed to orally retell a story, so lots of scaffolds and supports along the way are a must. We know that the achievement gap can be great for beginning ELLs, and that their reading comprehension skills moving forward will depend on their ability to recall and retell stories, and other types of texts. Focusing on this skill from the get-go is essential in getting our newcomers to where they need to be in a few short years. As soon as they have enough vocabulary to talk about their emergent level books, start explicitly teaching and reinforcing "how to retell." Here are some of the resources I use to teach retelling skills. (My intermediate ELLs love the Retelling Practice for Fiction cards and the Read and Roll activity as well.) Retelling Practice Cards Story Elements Retelling and Sequencing Cards Read and Roll Fiction and Nonfiction Credit: the "dot dudes" graphic in the title is by Sarah Pecorino.
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Peter walks on Water. Preschool Bible lesson. Jesus' disciples often had to choose between faith and doubt. In Matthew 14:22-36, we read the miracle of Peter walking on water until he took his eyes off Jesus.
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This resource teaches about the story elements using the retelling hand, story elements posters, cards, and story mapping worksheets. The retelling hand is helpful for students to understand all the elements in the story and to be able to retell the story. Story mapping is an important strategy that uses the map to introduce the basic structure and elements of the story to your students. The comprehension question cards are cues to help remind the students about the story and each of the elements in the story. You can use the cards as a whole class, with groups, or have your students partner up and ask each other the questions. Included: the retelling hand posters story element posters retelling the story circles with visual aids retelling the story cut and paste retelling the story bulletin board fun banner and labels comprehension question cards bookmarks cut and paste retelling hand worksheet making their own retelling hand picture cards Posters included: title author illustrator story elements character setting plot - beginning - middle - end problem solution retelling hand Make sure you look at the preview to see everything in the packet! Thank you so much and I hope you and your students enjoy learning about the story elements. please follow me on Instagram to see more pictures and ideas. @roeylynn
Here is a reflective colouring sheet to go with the story of Jesus walking on water (Matthew 14). The picture shows the reassuring words of Jesus and a foot stepping out into the water. Click here to print off the sheet! Talk about: What might the disciples have been thinking/ feeling when they saw Jesus? When have you needed to have courage to step out? How does it make you feel? Who helps you when you feel like you might sink? Leaders give testimonies of times when Jesus has helped you to have courage Pray: Draw around feet and cut out the shapes. Draw or write situations on them where you would like Jesus to help you not to be afraid. Pin the shapes to some blue fabric to make it look as if the feet are walking on water
This resource is wonderful to get kids learning about the wildlife! This set of Forest Walk Yoga Cards for Kids will help your students learn through movement either at home, in the classroom, or in a studio. Included in this deck of Forest Walk Yoga Cards for Kids - A card with an index - Tips to teach yoga -20 cards illustrating the yoga poses -20 matching forest walk cards The index indicates the order in which the yoga poses are to be used to flow from one pose to the next. There is multicultural representation featured in yoga kids! Recommended for ages 3+. Ways in which you can use these cards as homeschoolers or in the classroom include: -For transition times -Morning routines or circle times -Brain breaks to calm their minds and bodies -Physical education -Occupational and/or physical therapy -With one child, small, or large groups Benefits of Yoga for kids include: -Increased strength -Increased flexibility -Improves sleep -Promotes positive interactions amongst adults and children -Develops self-confidence -Improves self-expression -Improves body awareness -Promotes a lifestyle that is active and healthy. Kids Yoga Stories: Forest Walk Yoga Cards for Kids
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