Hello, my dear friend! I am a very happy little magical gnome. I live in an Enchanted Forest in a small house.
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This presentation was created as a part of magic gnomes letters
that my son loves to get occasionally. This letter is not only to
enhance his reading skills and knowledge, but also for fun! Find
out more here:
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educational-fairy-tales. I prefer to print these letters out, but
feel free to modify/use it the way it works best for you. If you
would like to share your updates, please email them to
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Hello, my dear friend! I am a very happy little magical gnome.
I live in an Enchanted Forest in a small house.
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On gnomes street there are many magical houses. Pick the one
where your friend lives
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or draw it yourself:
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My friends often visit me in my small sweet home. They like to
sit by the fireplace, drink tea with yummy cookies and tell me
about some magical stories.
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Draw what friend is visiting the magic dwarf.
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My friends who came to visit me last Sunday, told me an
especially amazing story. But first things first
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On that Sunday the Spring was finally here in our Enchanted
Forest. It was a beautiful and warm day. Robins just returned from
the south and were running back and forth. Snow drop flowers were
sprouting through the melting snow.
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Paint or draw a Spring day in an Enchanted Forest.
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Then somebody knocked on my door. Imagine my surprise, when I
saw three completely frozen creatures! They had icicles on their
noses, snow on their shoulders and even their shoes were covered
with ice!
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Use cotton balls to glue portraits of three really frozen
creatures.
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I invited them into the house. They sat down by the fireplace,
sipped some berry tea and finally warmed up. All ice and snow
melted down and I saw that my guests were real robots! The whole
robot family came to visit me: Daddy-Robot, Mommy-Robot, and their
son, child-Robot.
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Draw a robot family and what each of them can do.
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How did you manage to freeze like that on a such a sunny day? I
asked. We just returned from the Southern Pole, from Antarctica,
replied the robots proudly.
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The following two slides can be used at this point of the book,
or in the end. Usually I let my son find his surprise after he read
the whole book, but this book turned out so long, that I was
worried well be reading it over the next few days and his patience
would be truly tested. I prepared some books and objects that have
to do with Arctic/Antarctic regions. I wanted to start using the
objects right away in our learning exercises, so it made sense for
me to give it out early. Do whatever works for you. To clarify the
text: my son did some gifts for the gnome after his last letter,
some drawings, so the gnome refers to it in his letter. If you
wish, you can say that the gnome just magically saw the drawings
that your child usually makes my himself.
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My dear friend, I showed robots your wonderful drawings. They
liked your drawings so much, that they prepared a little surprise
for you. This gift will help you imagine the Robots story very
well. You can find this surprise under your bed.
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And here is the story that the robots told me on that day. When
a child-Robot had his winter break in school, the robots decided to
go travelling. Not just any travelling, but travelling to the South
Pole of the Earth, in Antarctic!
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Robots boarded a big ice-breaker ship and sailed all around the
Antarctic. Robots liked that ice-breaker very much: there were many
great robots who worked there. One of them was warming up the ship.
Another was making food. There was even a robot who made ice-cream
out of icebergs!
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Robots were passing by very beautiful icebergs. Robots were
watching them from the window. They also liked penguins a lot and
they were throwing them fresh fish every time they met some new of
these fun birds!
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Once they even met a huge blue whale! The whale was bigger then
the robots, it was bigger then their ice-breaker ship, even bigger
then their house back at home! Robots really wanted to become
friends with the whales. They offered him some fresh fish, but
whale politely replied: No, thank you. I eat only tiniest krill.
The whale happily squirted a fountain of water into the air and
disappeared in the waves.
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The next morning robots woke up because of an enormous
screeching sound. They ran outside and saw that their ship was
stuck on an iceberg! This iceberg was so huge, so tall, so cold
Ice-breaker ship just couldnt cut through it.
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All the passengers of the ship were in a great danger: how
would they go home? But our robots were not afraid! They
immediately offered their help: got down on an iceberg and started
to push the ship forward. Then back. Even up! But they couldnt get
the ship to move even a little bit.
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Then robots said: We are very brave and strong. We can go and
find help to save everyone. Other passengers were very worried and
even the captain of the ship was afraid for them. But robots mind
was set: they came down from the ship and started walking towards
the South Pole.
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Draw robots on this iceberg.
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There was a real polar summer in an Antarctic: cold, frosty,
with a very short night and a really long day. Our robots had sun
batteries, so they liked having a really long day: they could walk
as long as the sun was shining. They didnt need a rest, or
sleep.
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But cold the robots didnt like at all. The computers in their
heads started freezing and werent working very well. Snow was
getting stuck on their tracks and it was hard for the robots to
walk. Large icicles grew on their noses and ears.
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But robots continued their journey. They were walking over the
mountains, they were floating on ice from coast to coast. On a
third day of their trip their computers started to malfunction.
Robots got scared: they were lost, they didnt know where to
go!
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Suddenly, their friends penguins came to the rescue! Penguins
quickly jumped out of the water and back inside. Penguins knew
where in Antarctica there are scientists who could help robots.
Penguins quickly swam right to the scientific station and told the
explorers that brave robots were in trouble.
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Scientists immediately sent a real expedition to save the
robots: dog- sleds and snowmobiles! Mommy- robot and Daddy-robot
were loaded into the dog sleds, but boy-robot was happy to ride on
a snow mobile. All robots safely arrived to the scientific
station.
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Scientists were very impressed how brave and kind the robots
were. They asked them to stay at the station, but robots were
worried about the ice-breaker ship stuck at the iceberg. Robots had
no time for rest. Scientists who work at that station didnt have
neither ships, nor helicopters, so they couldnt help robots any
more. They wanted to send a radio signal, but the snow storm
started and there was no signal.
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To save everyone on that ship, well need helicopters, decided
the brave robots and suggested to go the largest station in
Antarctic, where most of the scientists lived. This station is very
far. The fastest way to get there is to swim, but we dont have a
ship, sadly replied the scientists.
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Robots came outside. They were very sad: the water was very
cold and they couldnt swim all by themselves. How can they help
their ship?
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At that moment a familiar fountain of water rose up high into
the air. Then a huge wet back appeared over the water surface and
finally there was a powerful flip of a huge tail! The Gigantic Blue
Whale came to help the robots cross the Antarctic sea. Climb on my
back, said the whale, - Ill take you right to the big station!
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Robots were very happy to climb on whales back. The whale was
speeding across the waves like a wind! Very soon the robots reached
the big Antarctic scientific station. There, the scientists quickly
sent out helicopters to help the stuck ice- breaker. Aboard the
helicopter, robots were showing the way.
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At that time, another trouble happened at the icebreaker: the
cat Fluffy accidentally knocked a vase on the robot-ship-heater and
it broke down. Everyone on a ship were in great danger: they could
just freeze and turn into an iceberg themselves by the time the
help would arrive
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Suddenly the big helicopters appeared in the sky above the
ship! Common, everyone, lets board the helicopters! shouted the
brave robots. Everyone on the ship was so happy to see them back,
they started clapping their hands! Robots helped people to move
from the ship into the helicopters. They havent forgotten anybody
on the ship, including robot-heater and the cat Fluffy.
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Draw how robots are saving people from the ship.
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Everyone on the ship was very grateful to our robots. The
captain even gave each of them a big shiny medal. Scientists wrote
an article to a newspaper about their heroism. The biggest
helicopter was set out to fly the robots home.
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On the way home the robots were still very cold. Passing over
our Enchanted Forest, they asked to let them land near my house. I
was very happy to share some tea. I enjoyed listening to their
story. I liked their beautiful medals.
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Draw the part of the picture that you liked the most.
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My dear friend, I showed robots your wonderful drawings. They
liked your drawings so much, that they prepared a little surprise
for you. This gift will help you imagine the Robots story very
well. You can find this surprise under your bed.