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 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 [...]
Day 54: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 23, 2011 by Sharon
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Little words can sometimes pack a powerful punch. Little words can have interestingly BIG meanings. Children love little words that they can pronounce, carry around with them and use. Take adjectives wily and wry, for examples: 1. wily - cunning, sly, artful, crafty. What to love about this word? wily is a great word to [...]
Day 53: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 22, 2011 by Sharon
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Some words come with with lots of synonyms (words of identical or similar meaning). These words are particularly interesting to children because it’s like these words travel with a bunch of friends. Words with synonym friends are sometimes easier to remember… because of all its friends! Take valiant and venomous, for examples. These words travel [...]
Day 51: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 20, 2011 by Sharon
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We’re coming up to 40 words in our quest for 56 Adjectives. 40! Both of today’s 2 adjectives are words we’ve bumped into in poems we’ve read, Window by Czeslaw Milosz and I Cry by Tupak Shakur: 1. translucent - allowing the passage of light, but diffusing it enough to make images become blurred. What [...]
Day 50: 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able
February 19, 2011 by Sharon
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Shhhh. Listen deeply. Listen earnestly. Sometimes words that define the strongest emotions are quiet words. Children love to hear quiet words said quietly. Whisper silent. Whisper solemn. Allow the s’s to carry the entire word. Ask your children to whisper silent. Whisper solemn. Set the mood, the tone, the spirit and the sound for our [...]
