(Source: Smithsonian Institution) Prekindergarten children and their families from the Kenilworth-Parkside community in northeast Washington, D.C., will have new opportunities to participate in vocabulary-based family-literacy workshops supported by a two-year, $1 million grant from the PNC Foundation. The Smithsonian and D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative will develop and deliver monthly 'Word Expeditions' workshops at the Neval Thomas Elementary School in northeast, four Smithsonian museums, the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Smithsonian Associates' Discovery Theater. The Word Expeditions initiative will be announced Wednesday, Dec. 2, at the Smithsonian Castle at 9 a.m. with a...
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