Shower your kids with WORDS during the month of April.  Remember… kids LOVE words.  Go on.  Have some fun Day 92 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids! Today’s WORD:  aubade – aubade is a noun meaning a celebration of dawn or a song or poem to daybreak/sunrise and is pronounced o-bod (as in cod) If you’re looking to wake [...]

Day 31. Our LAST DAY of our 31 Letters Literacy Project! Can you believe that March is marching out?  Hopefully, you were able to capture a topic each day and write a letter to your children, grandchildren or special children in your life.  The good news is that you can do this any time. 1 letter.  5 letters.  20 letters.  [...]

Day 30 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is about FATHERS. This letter topic is inspired by one of my favorite poems, My Father by Yehuda Amichai: MY FATHER by Yehuda Amichai The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day at work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out [...]

Day 29 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is about SOMETHING YOU’LL NEVER DO AGAIN! Today’s letter is inspired by a photograph I found of me at… oh, 14 or so, with a bad, bad, bad haircut.  I thought I had erased that phase from my mind.  No.  The photo came back to haunt me. As a child or teenager [...]

Day 28 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is about TIME. Today’s letter is inspired by a poem we bumped into on Day 28 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids… a wonderful little poem and message that tells us of the passage of TIME: WINDOW by Czeslaw Milosz I looked out the window at dawn and saw a young [...]

Day 27 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about HELPING. Today’s letter topic is inspired by a poem we bumped into on Day 27 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids: I Cry by Tupak Shakur Sometimes when I’m alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm. They flow [...]

Day 26 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about the GREAT NIGHT SKY. Today’s letter is inspired by a poem we bumped into on Day 26 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids: BROTHERHOOD by Octavio Paz I am a man: little do I last and the night is enormous. But I look up: the stars write. Unknowing [...]

  Day 24 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about words that make today TODAY. Today’s letter is inspired by the poem TODAY that we bumped into on Day 24 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids: TODAY by Frank O’Hara Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! You really are beautiful! Pearls, harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all the stuff they’ve [...]

Day 23 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about SUNNY DAYS. This letter topic is inspired by a lovely HAIKU that we bumped into on Day 23 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids: from FIVE HAIKU by Paul Eluard Ah! a thousand flames, a fire, The light, a shadow! The sun is following me. Who doesn’t love [...]

Day 21 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about WICKEDLY FUNNY!  You know, the kind of thing that is both wicked and funny at the same time. Today’s letter is inspired by a little poem we bumped into on Day 21 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids… a poem about a wicked crocodile: HOW DOTH THE LITTLE [...]