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#Friday5 with Gretchen LeGrand

This #Friday5, Gretchen LeGrand, founder of Code in the Schools, shares her favorite picture books! These will be sure to warm your heart...and who can resist Alexander and Olivia! 

1. Time of Wonder: Robert McCloskey.

This book sends me into daydreams of living on an island off the coast of Maine.

2. Stellaluna: Janell Cannon.

I don't know why, but I get choked up at the end of this book. Every. Time.

3. I love you as much: Laura Krauss Melmed & Henri Sorensen 

The most beautiful watercolor illustrations.

4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Judith Viorst.

I still have days like this. I also just heard they're turning it into a movie.

5. Olivia: Ian Falconer

I live with Olivia (her name is Justice though). She even has a baby brother named William, so this book is close to my heart. Also, hilarious.

Please take a minute to check out Gretchen's AMAZING initiative, Code in the Schools!  

Gretchen and Mike LeGrand founded Code in the Schools in 2013 to provide Baltimore City youth with access to high-quality computer science education. We partner with schools and afterschool programs to bring our classes to children who wouldn't otherwise be exposed to computer science as a career or degree choice.

Follow Gretchen: Twitter | web 

About #Friday5: At Page’s Corner, we strongly believe in the concept of Hands-On Literacy and believe that reading is a 5 senses experience. With this in mind, our #Friday5 will jumpstart your weekend reading adventures!   

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#Friday5 goes Wordless!

This #Friday5 has no words. These 5 books will delight and amaze purely through visual storytelling. And the best part---you and your little ones can create new stories and endings each time you read!

1. Wave: Suzy Lee

2. Journey: Aaron Becker

3. Re-Zoom: Istvan Banyai

4. The Red Book: Barbara Lehman

5. Bluebird: Bob Staake

About #Friday5: At Page’s Corner, we strongly believe in the concept of Hands-On Literacy and believe that reading is a 5 senses experience. With this in mind, our #Friday5 will jumpstart your weekend reading adventures!   

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It's the perfect time to celebrate #ScreenFreeWeek! Let's get outside! 

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Reading and cooking with your kids are two simple and valuable ways to spend family time!  Check out this list via @MissionRead and challenge yourself to carve out time this summer to read and cook together!

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Want to know more about Page's Corner and the StoryCraft Box? Read this!

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The Need to Read!

Welcome to Mission Read! Launching April 1!

Mission Read is an organic, grassroots literacy campaign started by Page’s Corner, a Baltimore based children’s learning company.  Mission Read has been designed to stress the importance of reading at all levels, regardless of age, gender or socioeconomic status.  Using this as the benchmark, Page’s Corner is partnering with the online magazine, BonBon Break to highlight topics and issues relating to literacy and each month will feature a series of articles stressing the ‘need to read’!  The campaign will also feature writers, business owners and advocates for education and children’s’ issues.  Beyond the articles and discussions using social media, Mission Read will be the hub for outreach, education and community involvement as participants showcase their efforts to spread the love of books and reading in their locales and beyond!

“I wanted to start a campaign that everyone could feel a part of.  People like to participate in different ways and it was with this in mind that Mission Read was designed.  Every person can feel proactive from the grandmother reading to her grandchildren to the teacher running a book club to the neighborhood organizing a community book drive.  As long as you are reading, you are a part of Mission Read!”

-Beth Panageotou, CEO Page’s Corner.

If you would like to partcipate in any way, have an organization or group involved in the community, a book idea or reading club, etc, we would love to share your story (email [email protected])!  Please join us and follow along on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest to see where reading will take you!

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Wintery Postcards with HOOT!

Thank you to our friends over at HOOT for this great winter craft! You can follow them on Twitter @HOOTreview! 

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The winter is the perfect time to send your favorite person a postcard while they are trapped indoors by the chilly weather. We love making and sending postcards at HOOT, and thought you might like making one too. Nothing makes someone a little warmer than receiving happy messages through the mail. Here’s what you’ll need: Card stock; a ruler; scissors; construction paper in: blue, white, black, orange, and brown; and a pen And after you get the supplies it’s as easy as pie.

Steps:

1.    Use the ruler and draw an outline of a box on the cardstock that is six inches wide and four inches tall. This is going to be your postcard. After you trace the box, use the scissors to cut it out.   

2.    Cover one side of your postcard with the light blue construction paper. This will be your background.  

  3.  After you arrange the setting it’s time to cut out your main character. Cut out three snowy white circles from small to medium, use your glue, and then arrange.

4. Once the snowman is settled on the page it is time to give him some character with eyes made out of buttons and a smile made out of coal. To make the buttons and coal take a thin strip of black construction paper and snip teeny pieces. You can use these small pieces to give him buttons down the front of him as well.  

5.    Time to give him his features!

6.    He seems to be missing a nose though, right? Time to cut a small obtuse triangle in your orange construction paper for that carrot nose of his. Take your glue and give him his sniffer.

7.    But there is also another thing that snowman seems to be missing. His favorite snowy companion. A book. To make a book take two piece of black construction paper and cut them in two, take a piece of white construction paper and place it in the middle. Viola! A book. Look at how handsome he is with his favorite novel. He might need something to hold the book with though; to give him his twig arms take four small strips of brown construction paper and arrange them near his middle.

8.    You can always add a little message to the front of snowman’s novel if you like.

9.    Once the glue has dried, flip your postcard over and draw dashes down the middle and lines to the right like in the picture. Don’t forget about where to place your stamp.

  10.Mail off to anyone who might need a smile during these cold months!