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North American Tales

Autumn is a great time for Storytelling in the Classroom-and in the Dance classroom too.  Most Primary students enjoy acting out and even dancing the  stories they’ve heard or read.

Here’s several links to Native American and other stories teachers can enjoy with their students in the elementary classroom, and parents will find interesting for story time at home too.

Native American Tales including Coyote Stories

Bear Stories

Jaguar Stories

Other Stories About America and Americans of Long Ago

Now here’s the most useful link of all:

Tim Sheppard’s Storytelling Resources I don’t know what Isn’t on Tim Sheppard’s site-there are more stories and links than I’ve ever found in one place-on all kinds of subjects.  You could spend a month just looking at everything you’ll find here!

Interested in making your students into Storytellers and Collaborators with others around the world? -click this! My dance students in Grades 1 and 2 sometimes write their own 1-page Ballet stories to perform in class, and this wiki has given me some ideas about how to publish them-on a wiki!

Primary Math Wiki-I loved learning about this wiki-it’s simple, direct, and effective for Primary students.  I got a lot of ideas for making an educational wiki for, and with, my student dancers.  Not only could they use it at home for fun and for practice, but it could also serve as a demonstration or reminder) of how the activities we regularly do in dance class relate to other subject areas.  I actually contacted one of the teachers involved with this wiki and shared Pattern making ideas with her.

Check out this great Toolbox! To me, this is the most interesting page of Jennifer Doman’s-to find it you have to really look though, unless you use this link I created!  This wiki got a Cool Cat Teacher award so I spent a little time looking around-otherwise I would probably not have spent much time on her wiki at all as my first impression was her wiki was just a fancy online resume’.

I know I’m biased but One of my favorite educational wikis is MINE!

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