WSRA Families and Literacy Committee

2008

1
Happy New Year!  Make a list of New Year's resolutions.

2
List the months of the year in alphabetical order.

3
Watch  The Hobbit by J.R. Tolken to commemorate his birthday.

4
Family Reading Day

Read Tell Me About the Day You Were Born by J. Curtis.

5
Write words that rhyme with snow.

6
Read Oh! by Kevin Henkes.

7
Research animal tracks around your house. Take a winter walk and see if you are able to spot a few.

8
Celebrate World Literacy Day by reading to a neighbor.

9
Read  The Mitten by Jan Brett.

10
Discuss how animals keep warm in the winter.

11
Family Reading Day

Make hot cocoa and read a delicious book together.

12
Go to the library and pick a Caldecott book to read.  Just look for the silver sticker.

13
Make up new lyrics using a favorite melody like “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”.

14
Read Not A Box by Antoinette Portis.

15
Write a poem about your favorite winter activity.

16
Go to the library and pick a Newberry Award winning book.

17
Ben Franklin was born on this day.  Discuss how his inventions changed the world around us.

18 
Family Reading Day

19
Create a recipe for a winter snack.

20
Read The Beast by Brian Wildsmith.

21
Read Our Martin Luther King Book by Patricia Mc Kissack.

22
Read  labels on your favorite foods.  Read as many as you can.

23
Write a paragraph about what you could do on a snow day.

24
Read Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton.

25
Family Reading Day

Visit the local library and select a book you've never read.

26
Develop a "reading resolution" for the year something like - I will read 10 minutes everyday.

27
Book Exchange Day:  Exchange books with a friend.  Tell each other about the plot.

28
Read Sadie and the Snowman by Allen Morgan.

29
Make a snowman and write about him.