From storytelling to story jumper

 There are lots of emotions, imagination, and excitement in storytelling in the classroom. As a primary level teacher, I observed many grade students in storytelling and fairy tale lessons. And I discovered that the most enjoyable and relaxing moment of the fairy tale lesson is role-playing. Role-playing is a motivational and collaborative way of learning the language. 

Stories and fairy tales hook kids’ imagination and convey them to the world of magic. I really love when my students immerse themselves into the world of fairy tales through reading, listening, and playing. Their eyes sparkle with curiosity and wonder during the lesson.   We have a reading corner in our classroom and there are lots of books for young learners, however living in the era of information technology why not use audio, video, or e-books in the English language classroom. Last academic year was tough both for teachers and students due to pandemic; teachers taught and still are teaching learners online. I wondered how to conduct activities based on fairy tales, and I found a very useful website where I can create stories and fairy tales for my learners and post them on telegram. 

storyjumper.com   

Now I use stories from storyjumper.com in my classroom through internet access. It’s free for creating stories and if you want to download you need to pay for the website. 

Here are some stories that I created for my students. 

"The Donkey and the Sparrow"

https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/81854925/The-donkey-and-the-Sparrow

"The Golden Watermelon"

https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/82161055/The-Golden-wa-termelon- 

" The Old Man and His Sons" 

https://www.storyjumper.com/book/read/105003676/The-Old-Man-and-His-Sons

Earth Day - Every Day!

 "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed''. ― Mahatma Gandhi

What Earth Day is about? What activities can be relevant to teach Earth Day?

As Earth Day is just around the corner I created resources that can help learners to understand that even at a young age they can be part of making the Earth a healthier planet.

Every year on April 22, people around the world celebrate Earth Day. It is a day to demonstrate support for environmental protection. This special day first held on April 22, 1970. It is a day when people care and protect the planet from pollution and damage. It is vitally important to let the learners know that they are making a valuable contribution by participating in Earth day. They can make a change on earth by doing even small things like cleaning, planting trees and flowers, recycling and reusing some plastic bottles or papers, save water when they have a shower or wash dishes.  Celebrating this holiday is not only giving information about this day but also building cultural awareness of the holiday through learning how people around the world celebrate it. The resource includes 5 pages of Earth Day activities: Brainstorming Reading, words search activity, spider web words vocabulary, unscrambling the words and writing the words in alphabetical order, and Earth Day acrostic poem. pdf: 

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FBCAXdPlw2Rl0EYm1NG18uICeKpVZoEF/view?usp=sharing