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March 26th

Connecting with Early Childhood community

At a recent meeting of the Douglas County Early Childhood Coalition, our local early childhood council, one of our members, Kay Swanson, suggested that children's librarians would be very welcome to join their local CAEYC organization.The Colorado Association for the Education of Young Children has
districts across Colorado. Kay is Member-At-Large, on the board of the Denver Metro district of CAEYC, but she makes a good point for any of us working for libraries and early literacy in Colorado.

March 8th

Progress report on CLEL's LSTA grant project: "Building Reading Readiness"

CLEL members who were able to attend last November's annual meeting heard about the latest LSTA grant project we are working on, which is to create a website with videos of rhymes/fingerplays and songs with early literacy tips.  Patricia Froehlich, Youth Services Senior Consultant with the Colorado State Library, has submitted this report on CLEL's progress on the grant so far:

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March 2nd

Cheerios Read-a-thon!

Are you on Facebook? If you are, you can join Cheerios' 6-million-minute read-a-thon! If 6,000,000 minutes of reading to kids are pledged by March 15, Cheerios will donate 250,000 books to First Book.

Keep the good vibes of Read Across America going throughout March!