We are celebrating Family Literacy Day with a Contest!
Family literacy can be broadly defined as the way parents, children and extended family members use literacy at home, at work, at school and in their community, and how families learn together in these contexts. It includes learning at all ages!
To celebrate Family Literacy Day (January 27, 2012) in BC, we’re giving away three sets of books, each for a different age or purpose: children, young adults and family literacy practitioners.
If you are in BC*, you can enter to win one of three book prize packages:
Prize package 1:
National Geographic: Animal and Science books for young readers
» A range of picture books, posters and learning books by National Geographic. Beautiful images illustrate facts about animals, science, and the world. For young readers grades K-3.
Prize package 2:
The Salt Trilogy for young adults: Salt, Gool and The Limping Man
By Maurice Gee. Orca Books, 2008.
» A set of three compelling novels about anger and moral development that explore the evils of colonialism and racism. For young adult audiences. Kindly provided by Orca Book Publishers.
Prize package 3:
LEAP BC™ materials for Family Literacy programs and practitioners
From Decoda Literacy Solutions and 2010 Legacies Now, 2010.
» A set of resources that promote healthy child development and integrate Literacy, Education, Activity and Play. They are designed for families, caregivers and early learning practitioners who engage with young children. Provided by Decoda Literacy Solutions and LEAP BC™.
To enter, comment on this blog or email us atto tell us what you’re doing to celebrate Family Literacy Day next week, or which prize package you’d like to win…
*The contest is open to anyone in BC: literacy professionals, teachers, tutors, volunteers, learners, parents, students and anyone who is interested and lives or works in BC…
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Mission Literacy in Motion is partnering with the local library and school district to put on the 10th Annual Riot of Reading. This is a free event open to anyone who is able to join us any time between 10-1 on Saturday January 28th at Ecole Mission Central School in Mission, BC. The day will feature storytellers, entertainers, dancing, community resources, food, and lots of other literacy based fun! Please enter us for prize pack #3, thanks!
ps. Check here to see other Family Literacy Day events in communities throughout Canada!
http://abclifeliteracy.ca/fld/events/
Like many others, reading has always been a vital part of my life and the lives of my family. Reading year round is always a pleasure. A very special time devoted to reading, from the time my children were small, was to take a stack of books on summer vacations. For the last decade we would book a couple of weeks at a cabin on a lake in the Cariboo (out of cell phone range, no internet or t.v.) and enjoyed some of the richest ‘reading marathons’ of our family lives. This would include reading around the campfire, on the beach, at a picnic table, in a sleeping bag, wherever we could. Reading our own books individually was terrific but the most cherished times were reading with and to each other. My husband, sons and I were just lamenting that we had not had the opportunity to catch up on reading over the holidays as we had hoped. Life gets soooo busy! We decided that we needed to declare a technology free weekend and curl up in favourite spots with popcorn, hot chocolate and some good books. Friday, January 27th will be the first day and the rest of the weekend will be more of the same! No t.v., computers (unless an e-book), phones off as much as possible and a stack of favourite books, some old some new. Literacy day was the nudge we needed to make this happen! Prize package #2 would be a terrific win
Thank you!
Brooklyn StrongStart and kindergarten classes will be hosting an afternoon with Pete the Cat for families from birth to 6. We’ll enjoy watching the story being performed and have fun with many literacy and numeracy activities. As well every school in our district will be holding a Ready Set Learn event throughout the week.
Raising adopted, special needs, kids, we knew we would put an emphasis on reading. Our oldest is gifted but has challenges that have delayed his reading – he is now reading with gusto but still behind grade level. Our youngest has yet to start but seems to be about to! Exciting times.
On Family Literacy Day we will be taking advantage of everything the Comox Valley has to offer: Family Literacy Day events and North Island Distance Education’s sessions with storytellers, writers, publishers, etc. explaining what their jobs entail and what it is like to work within the “book” industry. Cannot wait.
As both our kids (especially the eldest) are science nuts, we would love Package 1: it would help to have science-based reading primers; my kids love learning new science facts; both kids love National Geographic!
I would love to be entered in the family literacy day contest
We are celebrating Family Literacy Day all week in Kimberley with various activities. We are having a “Battle of the Books” event at all the Schools, the Early Learning Center and the Library.CBAL coordinates this with the schools and the library. We will be generating a top 10 list for all the locations to share with the children, adults and families in our community. The StrongStart program will be organizing many fun family literacy activities throughout the week with a focus on different mediums for storytelling. On Monday this also includes a special guest singer, Kiki the Elf. The Public Library is hosting our Baby Goose group on Thursday and the week finishes off with our annual Read- A – Rama on Saturday organized by the Friends of the Kimberley Public Library. The Library Director refers to this event as “The Best Day of the Year” as the library is full of readers of all ages!