Description
Astra Buni is a recurring character in our story universe and our magical interpretation of the Easter bunny. This book is basically her “origin story”, as it finally completely focuses on her and how she ended up with her magical powers.
What are her powers? Well, you’ll need to read the story for details. But suffice it to say that she has a magical paintbrush that casts spells if she manages to draw the right things. As the story continues, she tries different lines, different shapes, more complicated drawings, as she slowly discovers how to cast the spell she wants. Instead of accidentally making everything float again.
This is a bundle of 10 short stories (or “chapters”). If you read them all, in order, you get a bigger story. But each individual story is standalone and short, which allows reading just one of them before bedtime, for example. Most chapters have Astra try something new, or tackle a new problem, and discover a new fact about her magic.
As expected, the stories teach about pencil control. They encourage Apprentices to start creating their own drawings, copy what Astra is doing, maybe invent their own written “spells”. All of this is great practice for fine motor skills and great preparation for handwriting later.
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Product Contents
- 10 short stories about Astra Buni and a paintbrush that performs magic if she draws the right things
- The stories are included as a
.pdffile (most suitable for printing) and.epubfile (most suitable for ereaders). - The PDF has pages in “Half Letter” format (near A5; typical for books), but any computer system should allow printing 2 pages at once on a single A4/Letter page.
- Bingo Cards (for Apprentices to cross off things that appear as they listen to the story)
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Categories | pencil-control, fine-motor-skills |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Subject | skills |
Subject: Skills
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Skills subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches practical and physical skills. It starts with core skills like pencil control or doing the dishes, then moves into preparing for specific jobs and tasks later on.
Faction: Explorers
This resource is part of the Explorers Faction.
But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!
You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.
Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.
For example,
Charm: Novella Interactiva
This product is part of the Novella Interactiva charm.
Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:
Spell: Pencil Control
This resource is part of the Pencil Control topic (or "spell").
Earlier topics taught about fine motor skills and directions. Those two things naturally lead to a very crucial skill: pencil control. Being able to hold a pencil and accurately produce lines with it, which will allow you to write and draw in the future.
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