Announcing Children's Book Week Event

Hi everyone - Mymcbooks and Family Literacy (my other blog) are putting together our very first real event together and we'd like to ask you to join us.... Even if you decide NOT to review a Children's or YA book would you consider helping us with advertising? We would  LOVE you forever if you do!

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1st Annual Children's Book Week Spotlight

Hosted by Mymcbooks & Co-host Family Literacy and You

Children’s Book Week – 2-8 May 2011

Each participating blog will host their giveaway. There is no requirement on the minimum or maximum value of your giveaway. It's up to you to decide. You can give away books or Amazon gift cards, or anything else you can think of that has to do with books. Your giveaway can be as simple or as elaborate as you want.

• All participating blogs will be linked up through a Giveaway linky. 
• We ask you to REVIEW and GIVEAWAY your favorite CHILDREN'S book or books (or a gift card to your favorite bookstore)

How can you sign up?

• The details and the linky are on my other blog .... Family Literacy and You

What can you do to help?

• Sign Up! and tell your friends!
• Post our handy little Children's Book Week button above on your sidebar in a prominent place.
• Tweet and share with your favorite Social Media program  =D

Here are some sample tweets....

• RT @familyliteracy Book Bloggers needed 4 #Children's #Book Week Spotlight May 2-8, Sign Up 4 Event @ http://ow.ly/4CbZC  

• RT @familyliteracy May 2-8, Children's Book Week Spotlight, #Giveaway #Meme, Sign Up 4 Event @ http://ow.ly/4CbZC 

• RT @familyliteracy May 2-8, #Giveaway Meme 4 Children's/YA Books, Sign Up 4 Event @ http://ow.ly/4CbZC  

Thanks so much for your help! I'll post some NEW Tweets next week for the actual event  =D

Monday 3/14 - blog hoppin'

1. Do you have a fireplace in your home? No unfortunately.  I've seen those neat Amish "fireplaces" that you can use to warm up an apartment.  They look like a fireplace, without all the work, plug 'em in and go!  I'd love one!
2. Can you drive a stick shift?  No
3. How many computers are in your home?  One in the living room so I can multi-task and watch TV at the same time!
4. Are your taxes done yet? Do you do them yourself? No - I do them thru Turbo Tax.  I like how I'm 'walked' through my taxes.  Very easy to do.  Usually I have them done by the end of Feb - I'm really behind this year.  
5. What is your favorite meal of the day?  My favorite is breakfast - all day long!


Thanks for stopping by GivingNSharing!  I appreciate it and would love to have you stop and look around if you have time.  Be sure to leave a comment and your blog address so I can follow you back.  I do have several giveaways and if you're interested you can click on the one you want and it should take you to the post.  Thanks so much!


1) WIN a trip for 2 from Gortons and 5 winners will get FREE food! http://tiny.cc/6wd5n ends 3/10, US
2) MaMi's line of natural skin care w/ active ingredients, no fillers, safe, toxin-free & paraben-free! Giveaway~ http://ning.it/evIJFc
3)LOW Entries! ~ WIN a Blossom Bag from ChicoBag.com on GivingNSharing @http://tiny.cc/m1god, Ends 3/15, US
Ends 3/20:
4) WIN a SIGNED copy of Little Skink from Janet Halfmann @ http://ning.it/dRWa6N Ends 3/20, US

Sneak Peek - your kids will NEVER forget this!

New release from Usborne Books and More Available September 15^th 

^{Host a Book Party in September and YOU can earn the NEW Twas The Night Before Christmas audio book FREE!  In addition, if you schedule and hold your show before September 30th, you get an extra $50 in books.  Minimums apply.}


Contact: Tina "The Book Lady" contact(dot)thebooklady(at)gmail.com

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Giveaway - Kumon Books

My nephew Brett was one of those kids that liked to play by himself, he'd often disappear on us and we'd find him surrounded by books, he'd get out the Star Wars games and play with the figures and just have a great time.  He thrived on unorganized activities - forget the coloring books!  He refused to do them - let alone any type of preschool workbook to learn his alphabet or numbers.

My personal biggest fear when he went to Kindergarten was that he would have a hard time when it came time to do school work, any kind of organized type of activity (that wasn't sports or games).  But do you know, the only thing the teacher said when they tested him was that he needed to work on using scissors and writing within the lines. (Hey, they told him to write his name on the blackboard - he did.  He just was making BIG letters for the fun of it!)

Kumon Workbooks and Learning Aids

Brett loves to read - by the end of Kindergarten he was already reading by himself at the 1st grade level.  I was browsing through the Kumon Publishing website and came across some of their neat workbooks for kids in 1 - 6th grade.  I knew they had the preschool books for cutting, mazes, drawing, coloring, pasting and crafts (these are really neat) but I had no idea they had books or even a "method" for teaching to learn and love learning to read, write and do math.

I received 2 books from Kumon:  Grade 1 Reading and Rhyming Words and Phrases

There were several things I noticed right off the bat: the fact that the books are for the kids to do on their own.  They learn to "read" the directions, follow them and then self check their own work and learn from their mistakes.  The pictures while small are colorful and there is plenty of room for the kids to do their work.  The font is a nice easy to read size and kids won't have any problem following along.

This is an example from the Rhyming Words and Phrases book - I LOVE the puzzle on the left! It took me a minute or two to figure it out (LOL) and the phrases on the right pages teach the kids to "think" through what they are doing.  For instance - line one: HEN and MEN.  They are similar - the H and M change.

This is a FUN and easy way to help your child learn to recognize and write rhyming words and phrases, such as pup in cup and pup on cup.

The New Reading Workbooks are for grades 1-6 and Grade One covers the following topics:
- Rhyming Words                    - Short Vowels 
- Consonant Combinations     - Long Vowels
- Vocabulary Building              - Adjectives
- Direction                               - Reading Stories

Kumon has generously offered to giveaway any one of the Kumon workbooks to Family Literacy and You readers! I personally choose books for another nephew who has been having difficulties with learning to read.  He has ADHD and is legally blind (he wears glasses) - but he LOVES learning and workbooks.  He is such a smart little cookie and I know he will love this method of learning. I hope your child will love their new book as much Jake will love his.

To enter the giveaway:

Manditory Entry:
Follow my blog on Google Friend Connect and then go to: Kumon Publishing and share something NEW that you've learned about the Kumon Method of Teaching.  I'm looking forward to learning with you!

Extra Entries:
+1 Share a Kumon Title you would LOVE to receive if you win.  Who would you give it to?
+1 Follow Kumon Publishing on Twitter.
+1 Follow Kumon Publishing on Facebook.
+1 Follow Family Literacy on Networked Blogs.
+1 Follow Family Literacy on Twitter.
+2 Tweet this and add the twitter address in the comments.  (2 entries = 2 comments)
     "Enter to WIN a FREE Kumon Workbook at Family Literacy and You: http://ning.it/caJCXP"
+1 Follow Family Literacy on Facebook.
+1 Follow my Giving N Sharing Blog on GFC.
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+1 Enter the giveaway for $50 in FREE Books from Usborne Books (ends 8/30, restarts 9/1) from the       Giving N Sharing Blog
+3 Add my button to your sidebar on the homepage of your blog.  The Button is located on the top left hand      side of my Family Literacy and You blog.