{"id":15,"date":"2008-01-11T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcgaughey.edublogs.org\/2008\/01\/11\/the-house-that-jack-built\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T07:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T14:42:21","slug":"the-house-that-jack-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mr.mcgaughey.ca\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"The House that Jack Built"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Mr. McGaughey is a volunteer reader for Librivox.org<\/a>,
\n a group of volunteers all over the world who record public domain
\n audiobooks and put them up for free on the Internet. In October, we
\n helped Mr. Sayers from California by proof listening a recording he did
\n of The House
\n that Jack Built<\/a>. This story was originally published in 1880. You
\n can listen to the story here<\/a>
\n and look at the pictures here<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n You can find many other audiobooks for children at Librivox.org<\/a>.
\n You can search the Librivox Catalog just for Children’s
\n Books here<\/a>, but there are over 1000 audiobooks of all kinds at
\n librivox.\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n The Children’s
\n Digital Library (childrenslibrary.org)<\/a> contains scans of thousands
\n of rare childrens books to read on your computer.\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Our emails to and from Mr. Sayers are below.\n <\/p>\n

\n

\n Monday, October 15, 2007\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n By Mr. McGaughey’s Grade 1 class.\n <\/p>\n

\n Typed by Mr. McGaughey\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Dear Mr. Sayers:\n <\/p>\n

\n How are you doing? Thank you for recording the book, The House that Jack
\n Built, on your computer. Mr. McGaughey and all of us proof-listened your
\n story and we agree that it is good. We looked at the pictures on the
\n computer. We really enjoyed it. We liked when the girl milked the cow.
\n We liked the part when the cow bucked the dog. We hope you record more
\n stories for children.\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Yours truly,\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr. McGaughey\u2019s Grade 1 class\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n DSayers\n <\/p>\n

\n Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:58 pm\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Greetings First Graders!\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Thank you for the kind words about The House that Jack Built. It was
\n great to hear from your class 2,000 miles away, especially since I had
\n just recorded it an hour before you wrote me!\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n If you liked that nursery rhyme, you will probably also like Our Old
\n Nursery Rhymes which you can find at http:\/\/librivox.org\/our-old-nursery-rhymes-by-alfred-moffat<\/a>
\n . It has a lot of nursery rhymes that have been set to music and then
\n sung.\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n That recording has an interesting story behind it. My daughter, Jackie,
\n is studying music at the university where I teach. She and 16 other
\n friends who are also music students got together and recorded the music
\n and words to these nursery rhymes. I think they did a great job, and I
\n bet you will agree.\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n Let me know how you like them!\n <\/p>\n

\n -Mr. Sayers\n <\/p>\n

\n ps. I used to teach Kindergarten and First Grade, too!\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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