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Listen to this episode of the Purple Day Podcast with your preschooler and enjoy winter-themed songs and a nature-based story. You’ll likely catch them (and you!) singing around the house by the end of the day.
In this episode, we sing songs about gnomes and winter animals and then listen to a natu...
In this video from Storytime in the Schoolhouse, I share a simple puppet show based on the folk tale The Mitten. Curl up with your preschooler and enjoy this silly story from Miss Becca!
Waldorf-inspired Story of The Mitten for Preschool and Kindergarten
In this folk tale, an old man drops his m...
Listen to the Story
Listen to the Purple Day episode in the audio player at the top of the blog, or directly from the Purple Day Podcast, where you can download the episode and find the RSS feed.
Purple Day is a Podcast from Storytime in the Schoolhouse. Each episode is the audio from a Monday Stor...
Listen to this Story
Listen to the Purple Day episode in the audio player above, or directly from the Purple Day Podcast, where you can download the episode and find the RSS feed. Purple Day starts with a seasonal circle time, and then you'll hear the story of the Possum Who Didn't Like Anything Ne...
Listen to the Story
Listen to the Purple Day episode in the audio player above, or directly from the Purple Day Podcast, where you can download the episode and find the RSS feed.
Purple Day is a Podcast from Storytime in the Schoolhouse. Each episode is the audio from a Monday Storytime episode. (...
Navigating separation and divorce is challenging for the whole family. Talking to our young children about these big changes can be especially hard. Storytelling is a gentle and compassionate way to introduce challenging topics and upcoming changes.
This video clip is from an episode of Storytime i...
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Enjoy a puppet show of Grandpa Ivy's River Adventure.
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About this Story
I love to float down the river near my home in western North Carolina. I often see animals on the river...
About the Story
Maisie’s New Mousie | a pedagogical story about a new sibling
By Ms. Becca
Maisie the Mouse was the only little mouse her mama had. They did everything together–just Maisie and her Mama–and Maisie liked it that way. One day, her mama told her a new baby mousie was coming to live w...
