Read With Me · Pip and the Pin 1 / 14

Pip has a hobby. He loves to dig, burrow, and make traps. Today, Pip is going to make a new trap. He puts his tool belt on his hip and sets off on his day trip.

Notes: Nai Nai — say nye-nye (rhymes with eye). Grandmother in Mandarin. · Page 3: high and sky rhyme — ask your child! · Underlined words are ones your child can read.

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Pip.Hip.

Pip is ready to set a trap. He puts on his pack. Careful not to push the pin, Pip!

draw the line

Pip finds a tall hill to practise parachuting — the steep green i-hill. He loves to hang high, so high in the sky.

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Pip!Pip!Pip!
Hmmm...

Things that go up must come down. Pip looks for a place to land. He finds a low place.

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Hmmm.
Pip knows this place!

Pip lands. He walks around the low place. He scratches his head. Pip knows this place!

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Pip.Him.
Oh no! His own trap!

He climbs a tree and parachutes down. Oh no! Pip falls down, down — through his own trapdoor!

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Ah!Ah!Ah!
(short a — like cat)
Bap!Bap!Bip!

Luckily, Pip was not hurt. He kept his parachute. But a parachute cannot help him go up! Pip is stuck! Quick! How can we help Pip?

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The pin!
up!
around!

Yes! Push the pin, Pip! Turn on your jetpack. Puff, pop — up and around!

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Ppp!
9 o'clock p rune

Pip goes up, then around. Up and around. Again and again. Pip is having fun!

draw the spin

Pip looked at the path he had made — the contrails in the earth. The bowl was above the ground. The stem falls all the way down through the ground. Can you think of words that start with p?

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Pan.Pip.

A p! Pip had made a p with his whole journey. Down, up, and around.

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Iseep.
b

Later, Pip started to think. Yes, it was fun for Pip to fall with a parachute. But what about Bam the lamb? Bam did not have a parachute. Bam must have felt scared. Bam never made a bleat. That made Pip feel bad. Pip promised himself to talk to Bam. But...the next day. Bam! Bam fell in a new trap.

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Pip!
But... the next day. b

But the next day — Bam found a new trap.

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Pip!

Pip made p with his whole body.
Now you write.

Iseep.
Write it with Pip
9 o'clock start here