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Hello Book Bums families!
Happy June!
Whether you are hitting the road for a summer adventure, enjoying your own backyard with your favorite kiddos, or relaxing by the pool with a book, we hope your summer is off to a great start! Enjoy this week's newsletter.
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Word of the Week
aromatic (a-roh-ma-tic) adjective/describing word - having a noticeable or pleasant smell, fragrant
The aromatic lilac blooms attracted all the neighborhood bees
Literary Calendar
• June is Audiobook Appreciation Month.
• Older readers may remember books on tape and then on CD; but, of course, now aduiobooks are mainly digital.
• Road trips are a great time to listen to an audiobook the whole family will enjoy or to set your kids up with their own listening adventure.
• Audiobooks are accessible for free through the Libby app using your library card.
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From our Bookshelves
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Looking for a good, quick summertime read? You just might want to try this one. It’s an oldie but goodie. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, by Beth Hoffman, is a coming-of-age story that takes place down in Savannah, Georgia. It’s a quick read featuring lots of strong, eccentric women who will make you laugh— but it’ll also make you cry. Reading this book is time well spent.
Tips for Families
Did you know that adding cinnamon to sandboxes keeps bugs at bay? The cinnamon scent many of us enjoy repels bugs because it contains eugenol which is an aromatic compound that’s commonly found in insect repellents.
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Add a spray bottle with some water to your sandbox, and your kids can use letter molds to reinforce letter names, shapes, and sounds.
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Get out some fat paintbrushes and a bowl of water, and your kids can trace letters or words over sidewalk chalk or simply write letters and words and then watch them evaporate.
Tips for Teaching Readers and Writers
Inferring. What is it, exactly?
In The War I Finally Won, the sequel to The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, you can find the following excerpt about Ida (a girl who grew up in abject poverty) and Lady Thornton as they arrived at a hotel. The story is told from Ida’s point of view, so she doesn’t have words that match what she’s experiencing. Therefore, we must make inferences as we read Ida’s words. Remember, an inference is a good guess that’s made given the information provided.
“Welcome, madam,” he said, opening a blacked-out door. (Wartime blackouts were in effect.)
Immediately beyond the first door was pitch-dark space and a second blacked-out door. Immediately beyond the second door was an enormous, astonishingly bright room, with a smooth, shiny, black-and-white floor and a huge electric light hung with hundreds of pieces of sparkling glass.
Of course, we know that’s a crystal chandelier. The author didn’t say so, but we can infer it, given the information provided and knowing what we know about our world.
Lady Thorton twitched my hand. “Don’t ogle,” she said.
I dropped my eyes and moved to stand beside her. She spoke to a man behind a counter, and then another man picked up Lady Thorton’s suitcase—it held my things too—and led us into a small room like a closet. Lady Thorton and the man turned around, so they were facing the door we came in. The little room shook for a moment. Then the door opened, on its own, onto a different place. As though the entire building had shifted while we stood in the closet.
We know what happened, there. Do your kids? Try reading this excerpt to them, one at a time, to see if they can share with you what Ida was describing.
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Wordology Workshop
• The Greek root eu means good or well and sounds like the word you.
• In English we use eu as a prefix, so you'll see at the beginning of words.
• You can find it in words like euphora, euphemism, eulogy, euphony, and euthanasia.
• Can you figure out what's 'good' in each word?
Practical Grammar
Just for Fun
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