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Building Your Child’s Vocabulary

Building Your Child’s Vocabulary

Talking to and reading with your child are two terrific ways to help them hear and read new words. Conversations and questions about interesting words are easy, non-threatening ways to get new words into everyday talk. Here are some ideas to get you started.

Young kids in summer classroom learning about bugs

Busy Bees at Jubilee

Learn along with Early Start students at Jubilee Housing in Washington, DC, as they get to know all about bugs and begin to appreciate insects for the many things they do for us — and for their uniqueness and the diversity they bring.

Buzz Aldrin

Mechanical engineer, U.S. Air Force pilot, decorated war veteran, graduate of MIT with a PhD in Astronautics, Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 astronaut, inventor, Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee, author of books for children, teens and adults, and passionate advocate for space exploration and science education (his iPod and iPad apps “Buzz Aldrin Portal to Science and Space Exploration” are best sellers), Buzz Aldrin is all that — a true American hero.

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Buzzing with Summer Learning Fun

Award-winning author and beekeeper Meghan P. Browne shares buzzworthy ideas and resources to help families to learn about insects! Her book The Bees of Notre-Dame takes you on a journey of resilience to Paris to learn about the bees who lived atop Notre-Dame and survived the fire that destroyed part of the cathedral in 2019. 

The Three Pigs

Caldecott Medal Winners

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the American Library Association to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

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