It’s Bibi here, your favorite reading buddy.  Sometimes I just want to get away, don’t you?  I like to imagine I’m on an island, or Iceland, or Greenland, or even the Moon!  Even if you can’t get away, you can always open a book, and it’s almost like being there for real.

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Read Together at Home

Here are some books to read together!  You can download and save them and keep them forever, to read again and again.

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Things to Do Together

• Learn more with our partner Austin PBS: Play the Drive Trolley Game
• Share where in the world you would like to travel and how you’d get there. Would you take a bus? Ride a bike? Walk? Take a train or a ship? Maybe a combination of these?
• Draw a picture of your favorite mode of transportation or one you use regularly as a family. As a refresher, you probably read about trains, boats, buses, taxis, cars, bikes, etc. 
• Pack an imaginary suitcase for an imaginary trip around the world. Talk about what you’d need to pack in terms of clothes and items you need to take with you and create a ticket (a bus pass, train ticket, boat ticket, etc) for how you will get to your destination!

Share Together

At the end of the week, reflect on what you read and did.

• I learned that there are many different ways to travel! Some of those ways are: __________________________________
• Did you discover any new neighborhoods, cities, states, or countries you would like to visit? Where are they and how would you get there?

Share with BookSpring!

How did this activity go for your family?  Please share your photos and stories with everyone by emailing them to weeklythemes@bookspring.org, or sharing them with us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with #BookSpringatx.  Also, remember to subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more weekly themes, and you can post comments on other families’ experiences there.

More Ideas To Build Young Readers

Come back each Sunday for new Weekly Themes from BookSpring. Meanwhile, keep reading for more parent tips and recommendations!

Additional Resources and Extension Activities:

• Watch a video of actor Justin Thoreau reading “Here Comes the Garbage Barge”
• Watch a video of actor Ed O’Neill reading “How I learned Geography”
• Learn about Transportation with Zoe Saldana and Elmo 

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