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	<title>PLUS IT! Family Activities for Kids: Promote Learning, Family Literacy &#124; Esther Jantzen &#187; Outdoor Activities</title>
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		<title>Using New Words: Fun Family Literacy Activities</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want a quick reminder about down-time activities for kids that can pick up the energy and create good feeling, check out the suggestions on Andrea Patten&#8217;s &#8220;What Kids Need to Succeed&#8221; blog. It&#8217;s an activity I created for the Way to Go! Family Learning Journal series—something simple and definitely not new, but something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Activities: Family Reunions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are family reunions good activities for kids? Based on my experience, I say, Yes! Go for it! Last weekend I took two children, ages 5 and 7, to a large family reunion. By myself. Meaning their parents weren’t along because of a schedule conflict. It was just grandma—me—in charge. Why did I take them? Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with Kids in Your Home Town</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, most kids can have the experience of “traveling” to far away places right in their hometowns. Here’s how I discovered that, serendipitously, this week: Rose, 7, and Calvin, 4, are spending an overnight with me. After breakfast, they wonder aloud what we are going to do for the day, and I do, too. “Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Keep Your Eyes on the Ball, Grandma&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A four-year-old boy and a grandmother can play some mighty fine softball, I can testify. (I’m the GM.) Yesterday I had several hours with Calvin (not his real name) on my own. We started off reading a couple books together; then he leapt off the couch and jumped around on the tile of the living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking and Wondering&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esther Jantzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday walking home from a park with two scooter-riding kids, age 7 and 4, I used a Plus It! idea. At a street corner, I said, “Let’s guess how many cement squares there are in the sidewalk between the beginning and end of this next block.” I started the guessing and said 25 cement squares. [...]]]></description>
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