Stories of Contests
Stories of Contests
List of educational resources for parents and teachers to read online, to download in PDF format, or to listen to as audio stories
Our stories are a great tool to improve the education of your children and enhance your family atmosphere. Whether in family or in the classroom, as audio or as reading, using pictures or simple text, parents and teachers will discover with them a new way to successfully teach values to children, while enjoying each and every learning minute.
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List including all our stories about Contests. Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Obedience
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| Parents value obedience the most | A small country, any time period | Various children and their parents |
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Once upon a time, in a small country, people decided to investigate what it was that parents really liked the most. A competition was organised. It would use the latest invention of Professor Crank-Shafte...
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Educational Value
- Fair play, namely losing
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| Knowing how to lose graciously can mean that you actually win | A bat’s cave | Two bats and their fellow bats |
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Two bats were training for a great flying competition in which all bats took part.
On the day of the race, the smaller bat flew incredibly...
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Educational Value
- Optimism and positive attitude
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| Many of our natural shortfalls can be replaced by a positive attitude and perseverance | A farm | A dog and a rabbit |
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There was once a farmer who devised a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He made a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see...
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Educational Value
- Humility
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| Vanity provokes others to serve up some painful lessons on humility | A flower garden | A butterfly and a cockroach |
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Once, in a lovely garden, lived the most beautiful butterfly in the world. She was so pretty, and had won so many beauty contests, that she had become vain. So much so...
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Educational Value
- Humility and fair play
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| On the vanity and pride of those used to being best, and the lessons in humility which this can bring | Land of the Animals | A kangaroo, a penguin, and a fox |
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There was once a kangaroo who became an athletics champion. However, with this success he became arrogant and nasty, and he spent a lot of time making fun of others...
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