I have been hooked on Audible for several years now. It helps cure my craving for reading during those blank moments when I could not otherwise sit and read (while cooking, driving, showering). This year while I was pinning ideas for my classroom I read a blog titled "Ways to use just 1 iPad in the classroom" and one of the ideas was to use Audible to create a listening center and I was exposed to a whole new world of children's literature available through Audible!! Ever since then I have been downloading chapter books for the boys to listen to on their commutes to visit their dads and for the 20 minutes we spend in the car morning and after-school picking up and dropping off their sister at daycare. As the school year comes to a close I thought I would sgare all the books the boys have "read" this year just during our time in the car:
*A Bear Called Paddington
-Michael Bond
*More About Paddington
-Michael Bond
*The Boxcar Children 1-3
-Gertrude Chandler Warner
*Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic
-Betty MacDonald
*The Beverly Cleary Audio Collection
(Ellen Tebits, Otis Spoffard, Socks, Emily's imagination)
*No Talking
-Andrew Clements
*Hank The Cow Dog #1 & #2
-John Erickson
*The Wind in the Willows
-Kenneth Grahame
*Mary Poppins
-P.L Travers
*Magic Tree House # 1-5
-Mary Pope Osborne
*Matilda
-Ronald Daul
*Beezus and Ramona
-Beverly Cleary
Isn't that crazy?! And that's in addition to all the reading we do at home :) We go to the library once a week to rent a movie for the week, pick new audio book on CD for the car, and to let the boys pick a selection of books that interest them. It's been a big help to our weekly routine!
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