I just dropped off my 6-year old today for her first day of first grade. Since she was in Kindergarten mornings only last year, it is also her first day eating lunch at school. In honor of this, here's the latest article from the Early Childhood site at BellaOnline.com.

Lunch Love Notes
Lunch love notes are a great way to remind your your child how much you love them during a sometimes long-seeming school day! Some ideas for creating love notes and samples of what to write.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4362.asp

Please visit earlychildhood.bellaonline.com for even more great content about Early Childhood.

Do you do something special to make your kids' (or students') schoolday special? To participate in free, fun online discussions like this one, this site has a community forum all about Early Childhood located here -

http://forums.bellaonline.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=67

I hope to hear from you sometime soon, either in the forum or in response to this email message. I thrive on your feedback!

Have fun passing this message along to family and friends, because we all love free knowledge!

Nicki Heskin, Early Childhood Editor
http://earlychildhood.bellaonline.com

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