here is an amazing and totally easy family project that you can do immediately. in fact your kids (age depending) might even be able to do most of this without you.
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ok, it is COOOOOLD out there. and in other parts of the country it is even colder. here is an easy and helpful activity to do this weekend to help those who need something to snuggle up with and get warm. there are 2 easy ways to do this one:
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my kids eat the same lunch almost daily. peanut butter and jelly sandwich for one, and soynut butter and jelly for the other (who has a strict "no nut" policy at school, and yet, somehow they always let me in!).
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every spring BIG SUNDAY arrives and this year it is upon us may 3rd. this is a day where families everywhere volunteer to help a long list of organizations. similar to michelle obama's "call to service", this day asks you to just DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING to help out. anywhere.
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what a fantastic book to show little ones how powerful kindness can be. the story of a boy losing his bear, sees it now belongs to a homeless (and friendless) man, and forgetting his own loss and pain, decides to forfeit his feelings for someone else's happiness.
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our new first-lady-to-be is a girl after my own heart. she's a mom of two, supports her busy husband, has understated style and wants everyone to give back. come on, we're 2 peas in a pod!
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Now that our conference schedule is posted online for the first half of 2008, I'd like to request that those of you attending the following events Save the Date for an official Kane/Miller Kidlit Drink Nite. | |
PLA - Minneapolis, MN Wednesday, March 26th IRA - Atlanta, GA Wednesday, May 7th BEA - Los Angeles, CA Thursday, May 29th ALA - Anaheim, CA Friday, June 27th Details and venues will be announced on the official invites which will be posted to the K/M Kidlit blog. |
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This weekend marks the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the San Diego Multicultural Festival held downtown tomorrow which will include a children's area, an international storytelling stage and many other highlights to draw families and residents from the area.
Taking place for the first time this year and sponsored by Kane/Miller is the Mira Mesa International Festival, featuring dance performances, and international foods. This one-day celebration of diversity, unity and community wellness will be held at Mira Mesa High School on Saturday, January 26th.
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It isn't something I think much about, but once it was pointed out to me, the sports that are represented in some of our picture books serve as yet another reminder of the similarities and differences between cultures and communities around the globe.
Hit the Ball Duck
by Jez Alborough
From Australia
The Team series
Written by David Bedford
Illustrated by Keith Brumpton
From Australia
Could a Tyrannosaurus Play Table Tennis?
by Andrew Plant
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Monday, I will meet our Canadian Distributors for a Sales Presenatation of our Spring 2008 titles, followed by a lunch with author and illustrator, Tina Burke, who recently moved to Toronto from Australia. I'm not sure where I will end up that afternoon, but I meet the crew from H.B. Fenn for a dinner meeting later that evening.
Tuesday morning I have an early lunch with an editor from a Canadian magazine before heading back to Buffalo to try and make it home by 11pm that night. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the flights are not delayed but at this time of year, one can never be sure.
hi meredith. inspired by you and your wonderful kid-philanthrophy blog, i put together a service project for my daughter for her first communion this sunday. she is 8. as one of her gifts, we are presenting her with a list of 6 local service projects she can pick from, and do with either my husband or me. we will book a date this summer on a day that works for our family & the organization, and she can pick from helping animals (shelter) to helping the homeless/hungry (food bank), to helping kids with disabilities. we created a "journal" page to also wrap up with her gift, where she can write the name of the project she chose, the date, reflections before she does the project (what she hopes to get out of it), and reflections after the project (what she learned). this she can keep as a memory and for posterity. after she gets back from the service project, we will have a special family dinner in our backyard (she picks the menu) so she can share with us her observations and learnings. not sure what you call this, but we named it "Celia's First Communion Service Project" and hope to do it again with our other kids as well. (Celia is our first.) we do whatever family volunteering we can, and we really want to underscore that the point of any sacrament or "spiritual" rite of passage is to reach out to others in need. anyway, thanks for your inspiration over the year/s. . .