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Hello Book Bums families!
This week we're thinking about young entrepreneurs. Whether you have a budding businessperson in your household or you just want to read about one, we have ideas. We're also wondering about words and food. From doughnuts to melons, we've got snack time covered. Enjoy!
"Let the wild rumpus start!"
- Maurice Sendak from Where the Wild Things Are
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Word of the Week
entrepreneur (ahn-truh-pruh-noor) noun/person, place, or thing - one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risk of a business
In The Doughnut Fix (below), Tristan becomes an entrepreneur when he starts a doughnut business.
Literary Calendar
• June 10 is the birthday of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
• Sendak is perhaps most famous for his classic picture book Where the Wild Things Are.
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Tips for Families
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If your kids have that entrepreneurial spirit, there are lots of ways you can encourage them this summer. Of course, you could go with the standard lemonade stand, but there are other things you can do, too. Some parents promote their kids’ bath bombs, salt scrubs, and baked goods on social media and take orders there. Other parents rent a booth at their local farmers markets. Some families work together to sell firewood, farm fresh eggs, and local produce from a table in the yard. Kids can also sell their toys at a yard sale. Or get more creative. After a big storm, kids can offer to pick up sticks from neighbors’ yards. They can host a soccer camp for young kids in the neighborhood. They could even host a story time in the front yard once a week and charge a dollar per person. Regardless of what your child chooses, here are some tips from Laurie Sepulveda from Women Who Money:
1. Help them figure out their why. It’s important for kids to have some incentive for pushing through inevitable difficulties when starting a money-making business.
2. Offer suggestions—but not too many. Let kids come up with their own ideas.
3. Let your kids make mistakes (so long as they are legal and safe) and experience difficulties. Your positive reaction and encouragement in response to their unpleasant experiences will teach your kids how to navigate the inevitable negative aspects of life.
4. Provide coaching so your kids can learn from their experiences. Make suggestions and provide opportunities for training them for success in the future. You can share some basic business principals about marketing, customer satisfaction, etc.
5. Be sure they see the finance piece. Talk about pricing, expenses, profits, losses, etc. We don’t want our kids to have unrealistic ideas about making money.
6. Earning money will likely fuel the entrepreneurial spirit, but you can also fuel that spirit by sharing your know-how and providing the motivation they’ll need in their money-making ventures.
From our Bookshelves
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From Our Bookshelves
Whether your family loves doughnuts or you have a budding entrepreneur on your hands, The Doughnut Fix, by Jessie Janowitz might be a great one to read with your kids this summer! (It’s a great independent read for older elementary and middle school kids.) 77% of the Amazon readers gave this book a 5-star review.
Click this link to find plans and questions you can use if you’d like to host a Doughnut Fix book club for your kids!
Book Club Ideas and Plans
We’re also including information about the Butler County Donut Trail, so you’ll have all you need to promote lots of donut-themed fun this summer!
The Butler County Donut Trail Information
https://www.gettothebc.com/donut-trail
The Donut Trail Passport
https://www.gettothebc.com/sites/default/files/donuttrailpassport.pdf
The Donut Trail Map
https://www.gettothebc.com/sites/default/files/donut-trail-map.pdf
You can follow the recipe for the “Life Changing Chocolate Cream Donuts” that you’ll read about in The Doughnut Fix and make your own donuts! Here’s a link for the recipe:
https://www.jessiejanowitz.com/recipe
Tips for Readers and Writers
We want our kids to be equipped to read the words they’ll see most frequently in their reading but memorizing “high frequency words” is not the recommended approach. Check out the following paragraph:
I have to be honest with you: We simply wanted to share with you an example of a sentence with the ten most frequently used words in it. We just did! They’re in bold.
from- Axios Finish Line
Those words (I, have, to, be, an, of, a, the, in, and it) occur most frequently in text, true, but kids need to be equipped to decode all words. We have a code-based language, and kids can and should learn to decode most any word—from the most frequently used words to those words we get to enjoy only from time to time.
This summer, put away those high frequency lists. Please don’t have kids memorize words. Let’s equip them to navigate all words. Let’s focus on phonics.
Need help? Email Christy at [email protected].
Wordology Workshop
• In Where the Wild Things Are, the wild things say to Max, "Oh please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so."
• The Latin root vor means to swallow and appears in many words about eating: voracious, devour, omnivore, carnivore, herbivorous.
Practical Grammar
Practical Grammar
Today my husband said, “I bought five watermelon and 12 cantaloupe.” And I asked, “If you bought more than one watermelon and more than one cantaloupe, why didn’t you use the plural form of those words? Why didn’t you add the s?”
And he said that watermelon is the plural.
Nuh uh. So I asked Google.
Here’s the deal:
When talking about whole watermelons, you add the s. (I was right. Ha. It’s my favorite fruit, after all.) When talking about watermelon in a general sense, we don’t add the s. Watermelon is my favorite fruit. Well, that is kind of strange because I can’t imagine saying, “Banana is my favorite fruit.” Maybe my husband isn’t quite as crazy as I thought. Wrong. But not ridiculously so.
What makes this fruity grammar conversation even juicier is that when talking about this with my mother-in-law love, she said, “Why did you buy 12 cantaloupe?”
Oh, sheesh. It’s genetic!
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