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April is National Poetry Month! Do you have a budding poet in your midst?
Get inspired! Write a poem for your pet and win!
If you have a child that loves to write and loves animals, we’ve got the perfect combination to help them celebrate National Poetry Month! The 3rd annual “Paws for Poetry” contest is in full swing and is a great opportunity for children ages 5-12 to showcase their poetry prowess! To enter, kids need only to write a poem to, and provide a photo of, their favorite animal friend.The contest is co-sponsored by kids’ virtual field trip web site Meet Me at the Corner and Flashlight Press. Teachers and parents, this is a great opportunity to not only encourage your kids to write but also get them excited about it!
Poems must be original work and can be submitted in one of two categories: Group One (ages 5-9) and Group Two (ages 10-12). One grand prize winner ine ach category will receive a $50.00 Amazon.com gift card. Two runners-up in each category will receive a $25.00 Amazon.com gift card. Winning poems and pet photos will also be highlighted in an upcoming Meet Me at the Corner video pod cast. The pod cast will be videotaped at New York’s Angellicle Cat Rescue Center. Local students will present the winning poems.
The contest judge will be Thad Krasnesky. Thad is a children’s author and poet as well as an Iraqi war veteran. He will also be providing contest winners with an autographed copy of his new book, “That Cat Can’t Stay”.
Celebrating the 3rd annual Paws for Poetry contest inspiring kids to celebrate National Poetry Month!
The contest deadline is April 15, 2010. All submissions should be mailed to:
“Paws for Poetry” contest
c/o Meet Me at the Corner
20 West Del Norte
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
Good luck to all our young Emily Dickensen’s and Edgar Allen Poe’s! We hope you will all take a crack at this contest as we take a moment this month to appreciate poetry in all it’s literary forms! wRite on!
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Are you the greenest Mom in America?
Children’s Orchard is looking for the “Greenest Mom in America” with the winner will receive a $500 Children’s Orchard gift-card. Times are tough right now and it can be a challenge to come up with the extra means to spend on your kids, especially as they are quickly growing out of their clothes or wanting to follow the latest trends. Children’s Orchard is an upscale resale retail store that sells gently used designer clothes in an upscale retail environment—they pride themselves on being green by reducing waste, recycling old clothes and selling them to moms to reuse!
To enter the contest, just follow these simple guidelines…
- Get Creative! Show what you do to live a green lifestyle
- Post your entry on Children’s Orchard Facebook Fan Page starting 01.15.10
- Comment to Share your entry & get more ‘Like’ votes
- The entry with the most votes by 4.5.10 wins $500 to Children’s Orchard!
Good luck everyone and may the “greenest mom” win!
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New clipart, new coloring pages!
We’re continuously trying to add to our growing gallery of clipart and children’s activities. We’ve recently updated our clipart gallery to further help you describe to your little one their daily schedules. We’ve also added some coloring pages and posters to our resources section! We hope your little one will enjoy them! Stay tuned for even more in the upcoming weeks.
A little heads up on what’s to come…we’re currently in production on some interactive games that will soon be available to our subscribers for your little one to further improve their technical skills on the computer while boosting their number and letter recognition skills! We’ll keep you posted and let you know as soon as these games are available!
We’ve got some exciting projects in the works so keep checking in as we continue to increase our offerings and help your little learn to play with time and have time for play! If you’re still wondering what to get that special little someone, consider a membership to MyTime Calendars! It will be a gift they can use all year long that will not only be fun but also a valuable enhancement to their education!
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