(Half a) Story Hour - Episode 5

Episode 5, “Anne of Green Gables: We Finally Finish Chapter One and Start Chapter Two”

In this episode, we finally finish reading Chapter One and start on Chapter Two - in which yet another character is surprised: Matthew Cuthbert, at the orphan who is waiting for him and the sorrel mare at the Bright River train station…

Tough stuff in this episode: prejudice, rumours of mischief and death

⭐️ Bonus ⭐️

Vocabulary: telegram, disposition, suck the eggs, Job’s comforting, qualms, strychnine, imported, latter, pessimism, if so be’s, uncanny, balsam(y), filmy, all and sundry, personage, ungainly, shingles, might and main, stationmaster, preparatory, brisk, scope, hereabouts, dare say, bearding a lion in its den

(Inter)active reading suggestion: Visualise and make predictions

For teachers: Try making a T-chart to organise the things you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste in your imagination while listening today - like this:

…you can write words or draw pictures! ✏️🗒️🎨

Musical interlude: “Kangaroos” from Le Carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns

Other Stuff…

A little more about kangaroos - the world’s largest hopping animals! (This video shows baby joeys suckling. 🍼)

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Easter 🪺: Can you hear the piano player(s) using the foot pedals under the piano(s) at the end of “Kangaroos?”  The piano’s full name is the pianoforte, which means the “softloud” in Italian, because it can be played both softly and very loudly… thanks in part to those pedals! 🎹