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1. Reading stimulates your mental activity. It's like brain exercise! 2. It can reduce stress. It relaxes you! 3. It improves your focus and concentration. 📖 📖 1. It gives everyone reading, knowledge. Reading gives them information they can use daily. 2. It expands their vocabulary. The more people read, the more words they learn and retain. 3. It improves writing skills. People learn rules for communication that translates to writing.  January is always a time for setting new goals.
What goal(s) do you have for yourself? To become a better reader? To be a better cook? How about becoming a more positive person? Write your goal(s) down on a piece of paper and post it somewhere in you house where you will see it everyday. Posting and reading it daily will help you to focus on what you need to do. Good luck! Let us know how you do at www.bluemountainrhythms.com. Create your own Christmas poem and read it to your family. Here is a fun one I created. 🎄 My Country Christmas No Santa Clause or Grinch, No Christmas stockings or presents under a tree. But a brown parcel from the Post Office, With new clothes for Christmas Sunday. A fireside with pots, cooking a country Christmas meal. Pretty Christmas cards strung on cord across the room. Rice and peas and curried goat, sorrel, fruit cake, and tie leaf. Feefies, horns, and chibums, Make my country Christmas great. Sandra Campbell-Notice 📚 November is Picture Book month. Can you tell us which picture
book isyour favorite? What makes that book your favorite? Write five sentences that gives us that information. Tell us if you would recommend the book for us to read by assigning it one, two, three, four, or five stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🖍 September is Literacy Month. 📚
What is literacy? Literacy is the ability to read, view, write, design, speak, listen, and do math in a way that allow. s us to communicate effectively. Literacy also allows us to make sense of the world and a range of written, visual and spoken texts including books, newspapers, magazines, timetables, DVDs, television and radio programs, signs, maps, conversations and instructions. Talk with you family about how you can improve your literacy skills and develop a plan for success. 🍁 September is also also the month when the beautiful season of Fall/Autumn begins. Find as many stories as you can about about Fall to read. Share the information with someone. 📚 Buy and read books written by Caribbean authors for the summer months. ~ Chose a Caribbean author’s work to read this month. ~ Plan your summer reading times. ~ If you don't already have a copy of "My Caribbean Grandma" a book set in rural Jamaica, and written by a Jamaican author, get a copy on Amazon or at http://www.bluemountainrhythms.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html  📚 “We Read, Write, Speak, & Buy Caribbean." ...Sandra Campbell-Notice ~ Chose a Caribbean author’s work to read this month. ~ Plan your summer reading list now. ~ If you don't already have a copy of "My Caribbean Grandma" a book set in rural Jamaica, and written by a Jamaican author, get a copy on Amazon or at http://www.bluemountainrhythms.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html  🎄Do you celebrate Christmas? Christmas celebrations can be different for your family or community.
Write a few paragraphs or do a "Sketch/Write" to describe what you do for Christmas. Share your work with an audience and remember that however you celebrate or not, enjoy whatever you do. 🍃 What are you thankful for? Write a letter that tells your family about two things you are thankful for. Read your letter to those who gather at your table for a meal. 🍃 OR… 🌱Do a Sketch/Write about one thing you are thankful for. Draw a picture on one side of the paper then write some sentences about your drawing on the other side. Share your Sketch/Write with your family.🍂  |
