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April 12: Celebrating D.E.A.R. Day
In my opinion, it's perfect that DEAR Day occurs during National Library Week this year! What is "DEAR Day," you ask? It's a day to Drop Everything and Read (D. E. A. R.), of course! And we have a poem...
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April 12-18, 2015: Celebrating the Week of the Young Child
April is a BIG month! As you've probably already noticed, it's both National Poetry Month AND Arab American Heritage Month. Plus, we have National Library Week and at the same time (this year), the...
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Celebrating Girls and Women and Poetry
Just last month (in March), we paused to celebrate the contributions of girls and women during National Women's History Month. And of course we have a poem honoring girls and women in The Poetry Friday...
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Celebrating All Kinds of Kids and Friends
This is the week for the annual conference of the Texas Library Association and today I'm leading the 11th annual Poetry Round Up-- always a popular session. In honor of our 11th anniversary, I'm...
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Celebrating Seuss
It's always fun to celebrate Dr. Seuss! Crystal H. has created a fun video reading of the poem,"Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss" by Carole Gerber in honor of Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day (March 2)....
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Celebrating Breakfast Cereals
This video of Andy reading"Picky Eater" by Matt Forrest Esenwine is hilarious. Watch him keep his composure as boxes of breakfast cereal are tossed at him! Plus, he reads both the English AND Spanish...
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Celebrating Letter Writing
Letter writing may be a dying art, but it's still important to know how to communicate, whether by email, text, tweet, note, OR letter. Need a model of how to? Check out this poem, "Sincerely" by Robyn...
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April 19-25, 2015 Celebrating National Coin Week
When I was a little girl, I loved collecting pennies and putting them in those hard blue folders with the circles for holding each penny. (I still have that collection more than 50 years later!) And I...
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Celebrating Daylight
Want to help children learn about the time change every March? Here's a poem to help you remember and to pull out again in October when it's time to switch again. Elena B. has gathered readers the...
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Celebrating Water
California is experiencing severe drought conditions and rationing water. It's a good reminder of what a precious and essential resource water is. Poet George Ella Lyon feels passionately about this...
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April 22: Celebrating Earth Day
Today is Earth Day. Want to know more about this special day? Click HERE.Want a poem to celebrate this day and our planet? Look for Mary Lee Hahn's "Earth, You Are" in The Poetry Friday Anthology for...
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Celebrating the Farmer’s Market
Cheryl T. has recruited two very young readers to perform Buffy Silverman's poem, "At the Farmers’ Market” here even talking about their favorite fruits and vegetables at the end. Pull this poem out...
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Celebrating Etiquette
Coming soon: a whole week to celebrate good manners and being considerate of others! Yes, May 11-15 is officially National Etiquette Week and we are celebrating with the poem “Things Not to Do” by the...
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Celebrating Thrift Shops
In this age of "reduce, reuse, recycle," it's a good reminder that thrift shops help us do that with material goods-- as consumers and as providers. And children can start young with the notion of...
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Celebrating Jokes
I read once that kids laugh on average 400 times a day! And adults only laugh about 15 times a day! And since laughter is supposed to be good for the heart, nervous system, and even digestion—not to...
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Celebrating Summer Reading
Summer is right around the corner and we want to be sure to encourage kids to keep reading even after school is out. Here’s a poem that celebrates Summer Reading Month in June. It’s “Oh, Summer Books”...
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April 30: Celebrating Children’s Day, Book Day
In just a few days, we’ll be celebrating El día de los niños, El día de los libros; Children’s Day, Book Day. It’s officially on April 30, but you can certainly celebrate books and children any day!...
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May 4-10, 2015 Celebrating Children’s Book Week
Another big celebration of children and books is coming up soon:National Children’s Book Week, May 4-10, 2015It used to be in November, but it’s been a May event for awhile now and I’m happy to report...
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Celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day
Today is also "Poem in Your Pocket Day" and the perfect moment to encourage kids to find a new or favorite poem, copy it on an index card, and keep it in their pockets to enjoy and savor all day long...
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May 4-8, 2015 Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week
Yes, April 2015 is over now, but that doesn’t mean we’re “done” with poetry! Not in my corner of the cybersphere! First, I have one more video created by my hard-working graduate students. This one is...
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