Celebrate Poetry All Month Long with Read, Discuss, Do

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  Happy National Poetry Month! We are celebrating National Poetry Month with a weekly poetry challenge all month long. To follow along, subscribe to our newsletter or check back here every Monday and Friday throughout the month of April for updates.  Kickoff: Books and resources for National Poetry Month   Week one: Read and write haiku  Article: A Brief History of Poetry by Marci Whitehurst Week two: Read and write odes Article: Eight Creative Ways to Explore Poetry All Year Long by Rebecca J. Gomez Week three: Read and write riddle poems   Week four: Poet's choice! If you and/or your children/students participate in any of our challenges this month, we'd love to hear from you.  You can  email  us or  tag us  on Instagram (use the hashtag #RDDPoetryChallenge or #RDDPoetryMonth). We will be sharing some readers’ poems in a round-up post at the end of the month, so if you’d like your poems to be considered, please let us know when you s...
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Picture Book Pair for Sweater Weather

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Happy Autumn! It’s the season of pumpkin picking, applesauce making, leaves crunching, and…sweater wearing. That’s right. It’s sweater weather! The temperatures are dropping, and we are getting close to snow falling. Maybe you already have snow! Whatever your weather, it’s certainly time to slip on a sweater.

Wearing sweaters to keep warm has been happening for centuries. According to britanica.com, sweaters were invented in the 15th century on the English Channel Islands. Fishermen in Ireland and Scotland followed suite. Early sweaters were made from thick, heavy wool. They often featured intricate patterns and were treated with oil to help make them water resistant on the high seas. In the 1890s sweaters were adopted by athletes in the United States, which is where they were first called sweaters.

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