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Kids 8: Capture the Sunshine \[The Cottage Meetings for Kids material is organized by stories and activities individual families can participate in all month long, \] followed by an Activity Day Outline designed for a co-op style setting where multiple families can share what they’ve learned and enjoy a fun day of activities, stories and games highlighting the monthly theme. This Month’s Theme: Capture the Sunshine This month’s theme is Capture the Sunshine. We have an essential need for figurative “sunshine” in our lives, just as a plant needs sunshine to grow healthy and strong. Beauty, inspiration, and gratitude can be likened to the “light” required for the nurturing of liberty within the hearts of people. Learning materials for Capture the Sunshine: ❑ Read-Aloud Book of the Month: The Giver by Lois Lowry ❑ America the Beautiful by Wendell Minor and Katherine Lee Bates* ❑ Sleeping Beauty ❑ Beauty and the Beast ❑ We Are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines ❑ The Jolly Pocket Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg ❑ The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin ❑ Anne Arrives by Kallie George, illustrated by Abigail Halpin ❑ Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak ❑ Lola Dutch by Kenneth and Sarah Jane Wright ❑ 1 is One by Tasha Tudor ❑ Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen by Deborah Hopkinson ❑ Poems of American Patriotism by Brander Matthews (1922) Beautiful illustrations by N.C. Wyeth https://archive.org/details/ poemsofamericanp00matt/page/n9/mode/2up Other Suggested Books: Moms for America ✯ Cottage Kids 1