This week’s Gnome Zone gives you the opportunity to create a mindful practice as an individual or a family. Recognizing emotions increases emotional intelligence, and reinforcing positive feelings is a way to enhance a person’s emotional resiliency. Supplies needed You just need yourself! Here’s what you do Explore your inner world with an intention to …
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”Rita Dove, U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 Poetry can be joyous or heartbreaking, full of wonder or even anger. It helps us express thoughts and emotions that can’t be contained by prose, the ordinary language people use for speaking and writing. Your challenge this …
Complete your 2020 Census today! Go to 2020census.gov Children begin learning numbers at an early age. But, it’s when kids learn about counting numbers that kids begin to understand the meaning of numbers. And once the power of numbers is known and understood, the answers to so many little and big questions can be determined …
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It’s Monday and that means a brand new Gnome Zone Challenge for kids! This week features Alphabet Antics! These are technology free activities and meant for you to go explore both inside and outside as well as involve friends and family. Everyone can get in on the fun and challenge their word and letter nimbleness. …
Welcome to this week’s Tween Zone Weekly Challenge: Sidewalk Chalk Paint! Creating art with sidewalk chalk is a great way to get outside and brighten up everyone’s day. If you don’t have any chalk, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Sidewalk chalk paint is simple and cheap to make – you may even already have all …
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