Stories of tidyness
Stories of tidyness
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 tidyness. Many creative short stories to teach values. Resources for parents and teachers
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Educational Value
- Order and Care
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| Order is an excellent aid to getting things done both well and quickly. | The forest | Several researchers and an unknown animal |
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Once, there were several researchers in the forest, trying to study the rarest beast in the world. No one had seen it, and its existence was only known by some remains, and by its highly characteristic call...
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Educational Value
- cleanliness and order
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| No great task can be completed without sufficient order in the details | A genie’s lamp | A boy and a genie |
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Once upon a time there was a genie, of the type who comes out of magic lamps and makes wishes come true. Unfortunately, this particular genie was famous for botching things up...
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Educational Value
- Patience and order
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| Before doing things, you need to plan them and have the patience to do them at the right time. | A café and a village | A café and a village |
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Bobby Buns was a very amusing and lively waiter who had his own cafe. He was also very fortunate, because during a visit to his parents' village he discovered that one of the young cows...
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Educational Value
- Cleanliness and hygiene
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| It’s important to keep things clean. | A castle | A boy, a King, and a painting |
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There was once a boy whose parents were the custodians of an impressive old castle. The place was full of old paintings, arms and armour. One day, the boy noticed something strange about one of the main paintings...
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Educational Value
- Nature Care, Responsible Act
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| To care for the natural world we need to act responsibly in our everyday actions, no matter how small. | Planet Earth in the future | Some Martians, Nature |
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Everyone knows that the history of our planet changed forever some time after the Beijing Olympic Games. The world's coasts and seas filled up with a very dangerous and polluting species of creature, which looked like a squid...
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Educational Value
- Tidiness and Solidarity
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| Treating things well, with care, is also a sign of respect to those who cannot enjoy such things, and who –given the chance – would surely treat them well. | A house in the future | A robot and a boy |
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Ricky lived in a lovely, futuristic house, which had everything you could ever want. Though he didn't help much around the house, Ricky was still as pleased as punch when his parents bought him the latest model of butler robot. As soon as it arrived...
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Educational Value
- Tidiness; working joyfully
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| It’s better to be clean and tidy from the start, and anyone can clean up in a joyful spirit. | A theme park | A loutish kid and a cleaner |
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A loutish kid and his mates were visiting a theme park. They arrived very early and everything was empty and clean. A park cleaner came by, singing and dancing as he swept. As everything was already so clean, the group of friends found it amusing to see ...
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