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Newsletter – Going Green – March 14, 2025

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Hello Book Bums families! This Monday is Saint Patrick’s Day (a holiday more popular here in America than in Ireland), so we are sharing some Irish fun in this week’s newsletter. We have ideas for celebrating with kids, tips to help you write your own limerick, tongue twisters, vocabulary, and all the regular features you’ve […]

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Newsletter – Cogitate – July 15, 2022

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Hello Book Bums families! Have you ever used a song to help you study or remember something? From the alphabet song to Schoolhouse Rock, educators have long known that songs can help students learn and remember in a special way. This week in the newsletter we are thinking about the power of music to create […]

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Phonemic Awareness, Rhyming Words

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It’s important that beginning readers recognize the sounds in their speech. We have a code-based language. Before we draw kids’ awareness to the letters that represent sounds, it makes sense to ensure that kids can hear, identify, and even manipulate the sounds in words the words they will soon read and spell.