We are still training our listening skills. In addition to the High Five magazine audio on-line, I borrowed a number of Mary Pope Osborne's "Magic Tree House" CDs from the library. So far, it has been a success and Jack and Annie have become our household names.
Truthfully, it all started about a year ago when we received the story "Ghost Town At Sundown" CD with one of the kids' meals in some drive-through. We tried it then, but it proved to be a waste of time. So, we just had the CD laying around for a long time. And then, like it often happens, the children got very restless in the car one day, and out of the blue we popped in the CD. Wow! We had a pleasant ride after that and the children have not stopped asking for more Jack and Annie.
Although the siblings' adventures are very interesting and the abundance of magic does not bother me a whole lot (fairy tales of our age), not all of them are 'healthy'. I truly believe, there is a better way to introduce the ancient Egypt and pyramids than drag some ghostly mummy and a whole lot of her afterlife rubbish into it. Well, out goes that creepy story. As to the rest -or at least as much as we have been able to listen to - it is rather praiseworthy.
So, let the adventures continue!
