Shower your kids with WORDS during the month of April.  Remember, kids LOVE words.  Go on.  Have some fun!

Today’s WORD:  aubade

– aubade is a noun meaning a celebration of dawn or a song or poem to daybreak/sunrise.

Pronounced o-bod (as in cod)

If you’re looking to wake up your kids with a lovely aubade, or wake them up from today’s home lessons, here’s one by William Shakespeare that just happens to be entitled, yes:

Aubade

HARK! hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings,
And Phoebus ‘gins arise,
His steeds to water at those springs
On chaliced flowers that lies;
And winking Mary-buds begin
To ope their golden eyes:
With everything that pretty bin,
My lady sweet, arise!
Arise, arise!

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Of course, you’ll want to substitute “My lord sweet” for your boys.

Toss aubade around a few mornings in a row.  Recite the last 2 lines of Shakespeare’s Aubade a few mornings in a row: “My lady [or lord], arise!/ Arise, arise!”

Your kids will never forget the word aubade.

Hark!  You may even feel inspired enough by the word aubade to write your own aubade or have your kids write one.

Remember that LITERACY is all about WORDS – Written.  Spoken.  Felt.

And Literacy is all about FUN, too. 

Hope to see you tomorrow — 30 Days, 30 Words.