04.10.08

Free Download ~ Thumbelina Read Aloud and Activity Pages

Posted in Mommy Nature's Home Preschool at 3:02 pm by Administrator

I don’t mean to turn this blog into a freebie posting site, but lately I have found several great deals.  So, today I found this from Core Knowledge, the same people who brought us the series What Your (insert grade level) Needs to Know book series.  They have now put out a preschool book and are promoting it with a free download of the story Thumbelina with some activity pages.

My daughter and I have already read it and I’m getting ideas for a unit study!  I’m sure I’ll print the story so that she can also enjoy it on her own. 

Along the same lines, I’ve been sharing classic stories with my children but sometimes it’s hard to find attractively illustrated stories of old classics and as preschoolers, they are not likely to sit through long readings, even with a good storyteller!  To combat this, I read when they are a captive audience - either while they are eating or are in bed.  I bought the iTalk Pro - Microphone for my iPod and record stories to put on their mp3 player (a SanDisk Sansa c250 2 GB MP3 Player).  After we’ve read bedtime stories and they are tucked in, I play the stories for them to fall asleep to.  The quality is fantastic - even on the inexpensive speakers that their inexpensive mp3 player plays on!  They are comforted by my voice and listen to the natural cadence of a story being read aloud.  They have come to request stories be played more than bedtime music!

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