Fun Activities to Teach Story Beginning and End for Kindergarten

🎉 Objectives

• 🎯 Students will be able to identify the beginning of a story.
• 📖 Students will be able to identify the ending of a story.
• 🎭 Students will be able to create their own beginnings and endings for simple stories.

🍎 Materials

• 📚 A selection of kindergarten-appropriate storybooks.
• 🖍️ Crayons, markers, or colored pencils.
• 📃 Paper or worksheets.
• ✂️ Scissors (optional).
• 🧸 Puppets or stuffed animals (optional).

👋 Warm-up (5 mins)

• 🗣️ Story Time: Read a short, familiar story aloud to the class.
• ❓ Question Time: Ask simple questions like, "What happened first?" and "How did the story end?"

✏️ Main Instruction

1. 📖 Activity 1: Beginning, Middle, End Sort

   • ✂️ Prepare simple stories cut into three parts: beginning, middle, and end.
   • 🧩 Have students work individually or in small groups to sort the parts into the correct order.
   • 💬 Discuss why each part belongs where it does.

2. 🎭 Activity 2: Puppet Show Beginnings and Endings

   • 🧸 Use puppets or stuffed animals to act out different story scenarios.
   • ✍️ Have students create different beginnings and endings for each scenario.
   • 💡 Encourage creativity and imagination!

3. ✍️ Activity 3: Draw a Story Beginning/Ending

   • 🖍️ Provide students with a simple story prompt (e.g., "A little bear found a magic key...").
   • 🖼️ Have them draw what they think the beginning of the story looked like or how the story ended.
   • 🗣️ Share the drawings and discuss their ideas.

📝 Assessment

• 👂 Observation: Observe students' participation and understanding during activities.
• 🎨 Worksheet: Provide a simple worksheet where students can draw or write the beginning and ending of a given story.
• 🤝 Group Discussion: Facilitate a class discussion about story beginnings and endings, asking students to provide examples from different stories.