Welcome to the English Story Time web site!

Dear Parent,

Each week your child and you can check this web site to discover more about the week's theme, play online games, sing songs, or read more about the books we read in the class.

Just click the links above or on the sidebar on the right to find your way around.

Have fun exploring!

Sincerely,

Shelly Terrell

Story time Teacher

For the previous class on Monday, November 23rd:

• our theme was Thanksgiving!
• we read the book, Today is Thanksgiving, by P.K. Hallinan.
• easy: play the Thanksgiving memory game, http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/memory/index.htm

• difficult: play the Thanksgiving hangman game, http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/hang-man/hangman.htm

• difficult: play the Thanksgiving crossword puzzle game, http://iteslj.org/cw/1/af-thanks.html

• Read your child a story about Thanksgiving in German!

• Here's a great animated Thanksgiving story, http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/holidays/thanksgiving/zoom.weml

• Take a nature hike and talk about how Native Americans used to live off the land. Collect leaves, sticks, and rocks and make a memory book of the adventure! Have your child label these items in English.

For the next class on Monday, November 3oth:

• our theme will be the weather!
• we will read the book,
• easy: play the Thanksgiving memory game, http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/memory/index.htm

• difficult: play the Thanksgiving hangman game, http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/hang-man/hangman.htm

• difficult: play the Thanksgiving crossword puzzle game, http://iteslj.org/cw/1/af-thanks.html

• Read your child a story about Thanksgiving in German!

• Here's a great animated Thanksgiving story, http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/holidays/thanksgiving/zoom.weml

• Take a nature hike and talk about how Native Americans used to live off the land. Collect leaves, sticks, and rocks and make a memory book of the adventure! Have your child label these items in English.

Note: We have made some friends with children from New Zealand and Turkey. For more information, please click here to visit the school connection page!

Below you can see the Voicethread project we began with Elias and Nora!

Please leave a comment congratulating Elias and Nora for their drawings and great English speaking skills!

Please check back for updates! If you would like to participate please let me know and we can still add your child's drawings to the project! You can even e-mail me the colored pages!

Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com and Teacherfiles.com