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 [...]

Day 20 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is about “Lovely Dreams”. Today’s letter is inspired by Day 20 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids… in the poem Cradle Song: CRADLE SONG by Sarojini Naidu From groves of spice, O’er fields of rice, Athwart the lotus-stream, I bring for you, Aglint with dew A little lovely dream. Sweet, shut [...]

Day 19 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is about the mOon… the full mOon in particular! Tonight’s mOon is the spectacular SupermOon, when, according to NASA, the mOon is slightly closer to earth in its orbit than average… and coinciding with tonight’s full mOon, will make the mOon appear bigger and closer to earth. Even more interesting to know, [...]

  Day 18 of our 31 LETTERS Literacy Project is all about MAGICAL SILENCE. The topic of today’s letter is inspired by a poem we bumped into on Day 18 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids: THE WHITE HORSE by D.H. Lawrence The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on and the horse looks [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m half Irish… but I intend to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the whole of me (the other half is Polish/Yugoslavian)! Day 17 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about singing who we are and where we come from.  Today’s letter topic is inspired by a poem we bumped into on Day 17 of [...]

Day 16 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about FUNNY. Kids love to read FUNNY stories.  Kids especially love FUNNY stories about people they know.  Crank up your FUNNY FACTOR today… think back to a FUNNY thing that happened to you when you were a kid.  Write about it in a letter!  Letters allow kids to read and [...]

Day 15 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about being a kid and romping in the grass… or whatever you romped in! Today’s letter topic is inspired by the poem GRASS that we bumped into on Day 15 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids: GRASS by Kim Su-yeong The grass is lying flat. Fluttering in the east [...]

Day 14 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is all about parents and caretakers and children.  This topic is inspired by a poem we bumped into on Day 14 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids… a poem called LULLABY: LULLABY -  Akan, Africa Someone would like to have you for her child But you are mine. Someone would like [...]

Day 7 of our 31 Letters Literacy Project is inspired by this little poem, by 20th century haiku poet Chiyojo, about a Dragonfly Catcher: Dragonfly catcher, How far have you gone today In your wanderings? Of course, Chiyojo is asking a child this delightful question… because a child’s life (and imagination) is filled with adventures and wanderings and make-believe.  This [...]

Day 6 of 31 Letters is inspired by a poem we bumped into on Day 6 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids. The poem is GERMAN SHEPHERD by Myra Cohn Livingston: He has never heard of tides, of moon and sun pulling the water to ebb, to flow. All that he can know is to outrun white foam and [...]