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Educational budget cuts are affecting schools across the country – which means that the quality of education and resources available to our children are being greatly compromised. Now, more than ever, schools are relying heavily on the support of their local communities to raise money for necessities like support staff salaries, boosters, even nutritious school [...]
31 Letters – Day 5. “One Wish”
March 5, 2011 by Sharon
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Think about these things for a minute… When we read with children and encourage reading, we promote language skills, reading skills, writing skills and speaking skills. We help develop longer attention spans. When we take time to focus on reading with children in our families, we strengthen family ties. Reading is one of the greatest [...]
Day 2 of 31 Letters – “My First Journey”
March 2, 2011 by Sharon
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LITERACY is all about WORDS – Written, Spoken, Felt. It is the most amazing and magical feeling to see and hear words that come to life in letters. In our 31 Letters Project, your children will have the feeling each day for 31 days to live and re-live the experiences of YOUR childhood… in your [...]
Day 60: 31 LETTERS — 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
March 1, 2011 by Sharon
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The 31 Letters Project. It’s March. And we’re marching into March with LETTER WRITING. Grab your writing materials and get ready to give your child/children, grandchildren, niece/nephew/special friend a wonderful gift… 31 LETTERS all about YOU in your own words. 31 Letters arriving in the mail. LITERACY is all about WORDS – experimenting with words, [...]
Day 59: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 28, 2011 by Sharon
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Take a peek at the remarkable collection of ADJECTIVES we’ve gathered during the month of February. Let’s take a couple of seconds to marvel at these ADJECTIVES and recall their meanings. These words and all words that beautifully define reading, writing, speaking and feeling are your children’s best friends. This is what LITERACY is all [...]
Day 58: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 27, 2011 by Sharon
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We’ve Already Zipped through the entire alphabet in our search of 56 Awesomely Zestful adjectives… and here are the A – Z’s, all happy to have met you and your children: 1. agile 2. azure 3. bay 4. blithe 5. camel 6. colossal 7. drowsy 8. defiant 9. elfin 10. enormous 11. faulty 12. flawless [...]
Day 57: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 26, 2011 by Sharon
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Children love words. Children love zestful, spirited words that add size, color, description and dimension to reading, writing and speaking. Two such words can be found at the very end of the alphabet… waiting to be discovered and used: 1. zestful – flavored, spirited, enjoyable; full of zest, characterized by keen enjoyment. What to love [...]
Day 56: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 25, 2011 by Sharon
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Our 56 Adjectives Literacy Project is coming to a close in a couple of days… but your children will have their 56 adjective friends forever. Ah. Adjectives. Y the need for adjectives? Adjectives enrich our reading, writing and speaking with definition and description. Adjectives define our images and our thoughts. In 365 Days of Literacy [...]
Day 55: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 24, 2011 by admin
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Grab your nearest dictionary open to X. What do you see? Not many pages, I’m guessing. For a little excitement, try discovering adjectives that begin with the letter X. It’s extremely interesting and a bit exhausting! We don’t want to exclude X from our list of 56 extraordinary adjectives, so here are 2 Adjectives that [...]
365 Days of Literacy for Kids: March into March with Actual Post Office Letters to Your Kids
February 24, 2011 by Sharon
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LITERACY is all about WORDS – Written, Spoken, Felt. Why not revive the art, the intrigue and the magic of putting pen to paper in your own words and dropping a line! In 365 Days of Literacy for Kids, your children were introduced, in January, to 31 poems by 31 different poets… poems from every [...]
