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Sacagawea and the Long Road Home
A young Shoshone woman who carried her baby across a wide country that was home to her people and dozens of other nations, and helped a band of strangers find rivers, food, and the mountain passes home.
This Week · Helpers
Helpers: who are the helpers where you live?
For littler ones: Who helps you when you need it where you live?
This week we're wondering about helpers — not the famous kind, the everyday kind. The one who shows you the way when you're lost. The one who comes running when there's trouble. Who are the helpers where you live? It's worth turning over in the car or at the table, because the answer is different on every street.
This week's stories
Classics
Little Red Riding Hood
A girl in a red hood who meets a wolf with bad intentions, and the woodsman who comes when she needs him most.
Talk about it
- Who is someone where you live that you'd call a helper — and what do they do?
- Sacagawea showed the way; the woodsman came running. Are those two different kinds of helping, or the same kind?
- Has someone helped you when you were lost or in trouble? Have you ever been the one who helped?
A new question every week.
Listen together in the app — short audio stories for kids 4–10, at bedtime, on the drive, in the drop-off line.
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