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Cape Kids Cast Winds Down on Summer Reading

8/15/2019

This week Cape Kids Cast catches up on their summer reading. Ethan will share his favorite summer books including Choose Your Own Adventure books and ElfQuest. Comment and tell us your favorite summer books below!

Be sure to check out our Summer Edition sponsors, Sea Crest Beach Hotel in beautiful North Falmouth, one of the best places to go for family fun ALL day long!

Leave us a LIKE, COMMENT or SHARE and let us know what you think of our summer edition series!

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Cape Kids Cast for March 14, 2019: Celebrating National Literacy Month with Reading Activities!

3/14/2019

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This week the Cape Kids Cast continues to explore National Literacy Month by attending Literacy Night at a local school. They explored different games and activities that kids can do at home with their parents. They also met local author, Michelle Cusolito who wrote "Flying Deep", a story about ALVIN. It is important to make literacy connections within every day life. Not only does it help encourage literacy skills but it also helps children bridge the gap
between school and the world.

Special thanks to the North Falmouth Elementary PTO for having us join them! And special thanks to Michelle Cusolito for her reading of "Flying Deep".

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Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge 2017

7/11/2017

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Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge 2017
By Molly

I was invited to attend the Scholastic Summer Reading Tour on July 5th at the Brewster Book store as a way to kick of the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. My son (almost 5y), daughter (almost 7y) and I arrived at Brewster Books about 30 minutes into the drop in event and were instantly welcome by one of the Scholastic employs and directed to my contact person. At her table were tons of freebies like samples parts of new books, stickers, bookmarks, character masks and book lists. Then the kids got their picture taken with a virtual Clifford (add into pic afterward) and props of their choice. There was also a character prize wheel to spin; prize included pins, Harry Potter poster (which my daughter was thrilled about), and Captain Underpants poster along with other things. After browsing the book they had for sale we got a VIP tour of the Scholastic Tour bus which has a table by all different authors including Peter Reynolds. My kids also got to take pictures with the three guest authors that were there signing their books; Blue Balliett, Eric Luper and Josh Funk. There was also a drawing table with fun coloring sheets and how to draw your own pictures.

One of the great things about the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge is everyone can participate from home! Just click here and sign up. The site allows you and your kids to track their reading and earn virtual prizes plus enter the sweepstakes to win prizes from Klutz. Another great resources on the site is book lists by age. So if your family is very busy this summer and needs a virtual way to track summer reading check out the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge and get yours kids excited about reading.

To celebrate how much we love reading, Scholastic is hosting a giveaway on our blog. We are giving away a giant gift set of assorted books. All you have to do is comment below on our blog post by answering our question below.

(Be sure email is correct as we will contact winner this way. Giveaway open to all US Residents 18+. This giveaway is sponsored by Scholastic and hosted by Mommies LLC. Cape Cod Moms will ship the winner their prize. Giveaway runs from 7/11/17-7/26/17 at 11:59pm EST. )

What does your family do to encourage reading over the summer?

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Cape Cod Children’s Museum Celebrates Jumpstart’s Read for the Record® Day

10/21/2016

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Cape Cod Children’s Museum Celebrates Jumpstart’s Read for the Record® Day
Cape Cod Children’s Museum Unites with National Early Education Organization to Highlight the Importance of High-Quality Education for All Children

Jumpstart, a national early education organization, will partner with Cape Cod Children’s Museum in Mashpee for the 11th anniversary of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record, a national campaign that helps address the educational inequities that leave too many children unprepared for kindergarten.

On October 27, 2016, children and adults will join forces for the world’s largest shared reading experience, known as Jumpstart’s Read for the Record. Since 2006, this 24-hour celebration has mobilized over 17 million people, and Jumpstart holds the world reading record for the most people reading the same book on the same day. This year’s official campaign book, The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers), will not only inspire adults to read with children, but will also spur policymakers and organizations to take action towards transformative change in early education while putting books in the hands of more children across the country.

A limited number of special paperback editions of The Bear Ate Your Sandwich will be available for purchase at Cape Cod Children’s Museum. By Pre-registering for the Museum’s Read for the Record event, you will have an exclusive opportunity to purchase a copy of The Bear Ate Your Sandwich for the special price of just $4.50. This exclusive price is available only the day of the event and only to those who Pre-register at www.CapeCodChildrensMuseum.org.

Special editions feature reading tips, vocabulary words, reading comprehension questions, and conversation starters developed by Jumpstart’s team of early education experts. All proceeds help bring Jumpstart’s program to preschool children in under-resourced communities across the country.

ABOUT JUMPSTART
Jumpstart is a national early education organization working toward the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed. By participating in Jumpstart’s year-long program, children develop the language, literacy, and social-emotional skills they need to be ready for school, setting them on a path for lifelong success. Since 1993, Jumpstart has trained 45,000 college students and community volunteers to transform the lives of 95,000 preschool children nationwide. Learn more at jstart.org and follow us on Twitter at @Jumpstartkids.

ABOUT THE BEAR ATE YOUR SANDWICH
Julia Sarcone-Roach’s The Bear Ate Your Sandwich is the tale of a bear, lost in the city, who happens upon an unattended sandwich in the park. The bear’s journey from forest to city and back home again is full of happy accidents, funny encounters, and sensory delights. The story is so engrossing, that you will not see the surprise ending coming!

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Scholastic Summer Reading Tour Aims To Engage Young Readers

7/11/2016

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Scholastic Summer Reading Tour Aims To Engage Young Readers
By: Amy

Cape Cod Moms was recently offered an opportunity to visit one of the local legs of a summer reading tour that visited Cape Cod.

The goal of the tour is to make reading come alive. Today with the current technology, publishers, authors, illustrators must compete and find new ways to make reading fun and engaging. And engaging literacy activities is what we found at the Scholastic Summer Reading Book Tour that visited Eight Cousins.

This was a first year project for Scholastic and their two RV’s visited over 25 cities across the United States. Lucky for us, they chose Cape Cod as one of their destination points.

There were opportunities for interviews and autographs with local New England authors which was such a treat for the kids to meet the faces behind some of their favorite books and stories!

There was also some character meet and greets with Clifford the Big Red Dog and Geronimo Stilton, both of which were a hit with the kids, a prize wheel and an animated photo station with options of Clifford or Slappy from Goosebumps.

There were also fun games and tables with face painting, baked goods, reading contracts for cash, and an interactive Star Wars fingerprint center which they allowed kids to try to make their own Yoda. I thought this was a great way of having kids interact with literacy type activities and getting them excited about reading instead of a Pokemon game ;-)

We were invited to come on board the RV and chat a little more about the Book Tour. Inside the RV we were given the opportunity to scope out the table which the authors on the tour had signed along the way. Check out some of these names! Can you match authors with their popular books?

I bet most of our moms can pick out one particular author’s signature who was a blast from the past from our childhood. Having grown up reading the many of the Goosebumps stories I was more than excited to have a chance to pose with Slappy!

Overall we thought the Scholastic Summer Reading Tour was a fantastic way to encourage more reading and literacy activities in a day and age where authors are now competing against the constant onslaught of technology which gives instant gratification. I hope they continue with this tour every year and are able to reach more kids and families across the country to encourage reading and demonstrate just how important and engaging literacy really is. I also love how the local bookstores along the tour are getting involved with this and hope to see more engaging activities like this for our community in the future!

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Make Your Own I’m a Dirty Dinosaur Activity Box

7/5/2016

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Make Your Own I’m a Dirty Dinosaur Activity Box
By: Molly

I’m A Dirty Dinosaur by Janeen Brian and illustrated by Ann James is an exciting book about a little dinosaur getting all dirty (then clean at the very end). The rhyming and repetitive text make it a great book to read over and over with young children. Plus the illustration that were made using really mud are great fun.

Materials:

A box
A copy of I’m a Dirty Dinosaur
Compressed sponges
Dinosaur toys
Fingerpaint
Soil
Dish bin
Scissors
Towel
1 c. flour,
½ c. salt
2 t. cream of tartar
2 T. vegetable oil
1 c. water
food coloring
Cookie cutters
Dinosaur picture print out a bunch
Capital D outline printed on cardstock
Old magazines or catalogs with pictures of D objects
Glue
10 Dinosaur coloring sheets
10 counters (mine are dinosaurs)
Paper

Activity One:
Read I’m a Dirty Dinosaur.
Reread leave words out and ask child to fill them in.
Have you child retell the story.
Ask your child favorite part and why.

Activity Two:
Make Playdough with your child. Have them measure and stir ingredients. Talk about how to make brown.
Play dough recipe: 1 c. flour, ½ c. salt, 2 t. cream of tartar, 2 T. vegetable oil, 1 c. water, food coloring (to make brown mix red, blue and yellow in a 1:1:10 ratio) 1. Combine flour, salt, and cream of tartar and mix well. 2. Add food coloring to the water and oil, and combine with dry ingredients. 3. Stir over medium heat several minutes until it forms a ball. 4. Let cool in a bowl. 5. Knead until smooth. 6. Store in an airtight container.

Activity Three:
Let child play with the playdough with cookie cutters or dinosaur toys.

Activity Four:
Trace fun shapes on compressed sponges and cut them out. Fill dish pan with water ask the child what they think will happen when sponges go in the water then let them put them in the water and see.

Activity Five:
Put dirt in dish pan with dinosaur toys and let child play.

Activity Six:
Have child wash dinosaurs with shaped sponges

Activity Seven:
Use shaped sponges and finger paint to sponge paint on paper or dinosaur pictures. Variation finger paint the dinosaur picture with brown paint

Activity Eight:
You or child cut out capital D outline and find and cut out d pictures out of magazines or catalogs. Glue the d pictures on the D.

Activity Nine:
Label the 10 dinosaur picture with numeral 1-10 (or for younger kids dot to represent 1-10) then have child place that many counters on each picture.

For more activty ideas checkout this link http://www.friends.kanemiller.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/13072337/pa_dirty_dino.pdf

Molly Hubner
Usborne Books & More Independent Educational Consultant
I am always looking for people to join my Usborne team, host parties (Facebook or home), or just share these wonderful books! For more information visit my website or contact me at mollyhubner@gmail.com. Plus follow me on Instagram www.instagram.com/mollyhubnersusbornebooks/

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Rockland Trust Presents Reading Makes Cents

7/17/2015

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Reading Makes Cents Eligibility and Rules

Students entering grades 1 through 8, through out Eastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod, are eligible to participate in the Reading Makes Cents program. (Relatives of Rockland Trust employees are eligible to participate.)
Students are encouraged to read books as part of the program which runs from June 22, 2015 through August 31, 2015.
All books read should be recorded in the student s Reading Makes Cents Summer Reading Journal, either by the student or the parent/guardian. The student should either write a short journal entry or draw a picture about the plot, characters or story line of each book. The parent/guardian should endorse that the student read each book by signing the reading journal entry in the spot provided.
Once the student reads 4 books and makes the corresponding journal entries during the 2015 program timeframe, Rockland Trust will open an 18/65 savings account in adult name and award 2.50 for each book read. The student must read at least 4 books to qualify for the initial $10 account opening deposit.
To open the account and qualify for the $10 reward deposit, the student must go to a local Rockland Trust branch accompanied by their parent or legal guardian and complete a Reading Makes Cents enrollment form and all necessary account opening paperwork associated with account opening. The parent or guardian will need to be a co-owner of the student's savings account. Reading Makes Cents Summer Reading Journal with the Rockland Trust colleague opening the account to receive the $10 opening bonus.
For every book that the student reads between June 22, 2015 and August 31, 2015 he/she will receive a $2.50 deposit into the Rockland Trust savings account, up to 10 books or $25. After the initial 4 book threshold, students may bring in their journal and request a deposit in any increment. All deposit requests must be made at the branch location where the student enrolled in the program. The program ends August 31. Accounts may be opened and/or credited until SEPTEMBER 13, 2015.
Program, rules and eligibility subject to change at any time.

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Cape Kids Cast for March 14, 2019: Celebrating National Literacy Month with Reading Activities!

Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge 2017

Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge 2017
By Molly

Cape Cod Children’s Museum Celebrates Jumpstart’s Read for the Record® Day

Scholastic Summer Reading Tour Aims To Engage Young Readers

Make Your Own I’m a Dirty Dinosaur Activity Box

Rockland Trust Presents Reading Makes Cents

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