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Purple Day is a Podcast from Storytime in the Schoolhouse. Each episode is the audio from a Monday Storytime episode.
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The Full Story
A lost girl arrives at a village with nothing to share, and pulls a soup stone from her pocket. Read the full story and watch it told in the woods on the Stone Soup story page.
Winter Circle Time Highlights
A winter-themed Waldorf circle time with songs, poems, and fingerplays ab...
About the Story: The Mitten
A child loses a mitten in the snow, and one by one the animals of the winter forest find it and climb inside. A mouse, a rabbit, a fox, a deer, then a bear— each one certain there cannot possibly be room, and each one making room anyway. This story about sharing warmth i...
Nature-based Poem for Wintertime: Jack Frost
Jack Frost by Cecily E. Pike
Look out! Look out!
Jack Frost is about.
He’ll climb a tree
So nimble is he
His sugary powder he’ll shake
To windows he’ll creep
And while you’re asleep
Such magical pictures he’ll make.
You can hear this song a...
Listen to the Episode
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.
About this Episode
This podcast episode includes a winter-themed circle time with songs, poems, and fingerplays, ...
Enjoy a moment of calm and connection with your child as you cozy up for an episode of Storytime in the Woods with Ms. Becca.
This Week's Story: The Old Woman & the Mouse
In this week's story, a mouse visits an old woman who is knitting a sweater for her husband. The mouse returns again and aga...
About the Story: Stone Soup
A classic Russian folktale about a community that comes together to cook a large pot of stone soup — enough for everyone to share! In Ms. Becca’s version of the folktale Stone Soup, a young girl gets lost in the woods and comes upon a village where she hopes to find a pl...
Storytime in the Woods
Each week, Ms. Becca finds a cozy spot in the woods to sit and tell us a story. These low-tech, gentle, slow storytimes don't include fancy recording equipment, camera angle changes, or editing software—just Ms. Becca, the woods, and a story.
The Full Story
A child ...
