Moms (or anyone looking for a present to take to a kid’s birthday party),
If you have an Ollie’s near you head over there now to get one of these Story Readers for $9.99. The same ones are selling on Amazon for over $50. I have always liked these to help kids read independently while they are still in the pre-reading stage. They are great for modeling fluency and practicing pre-reading skills like turning pages to the left, etc. Plus, my daughter would sit all day and have me read to her if I could, but unfortunately after I’ve read 3 or 4 Dr. Seuss books in a row I usually need to move on to some other Mommy tasks.
Today I was at Ollies looking for something to get my kids for their upcoming joint birthday party (their birthdays are close together and they’re too little to care about having their own parties) and I bought the reader, an accessories pack that came with a microphone, headphones, and a backpack for storing all of the books & accessories, and 7 additional books. I paid under $30 for all of it!
If I bought the exact same stuff on Amazon today, I would have paid over $155.
Of course, I was too excited to wait two weeks until the party, so Abby & I played with it for an hour while Nick was at preschool.
I wish I would have had one of these as a reading center in my second grade classroom. (or on the two hour plane ride with two toddlers just a few days ago…)
If you are one who likes to do your holiday shopping a little bit at a time throughout the year, like my grandma who is usually done by August, then this might be one you want to scoop up.
Also, if you happen to be in the market for an outdoor table, Lands End has this teak table for sale in their On The Counter section of the website. It’s $250, marked down from $1,200! I would have totally bought it, but I really have no need for it right now. I hope one of you can use it though, because I think this might be the same table my cousins have on their screen porch and if so, I can tell you it is gorgeous! You have to hurry & order before Saturday though because that’s when they change the inventory in the On The Counter section! (hint: if it’s still there on Friday when they mark down again-that’s a BIG if– it will only be $125!!)
Cute blog. Thanks for the comment on my bathroom post. I love to here of others who do things the ReStore way.
Ronda
Hey Steph! So I went to Ollie’s yesterday because I was going to pick up some of those readers to stash away for Christmas presents. However, the box on the readers was only in Spanish so I wasn’t sure if the reader would read in English or not? Did you run into this?
Korie