This year's theme is Sing for Literacy to increase awareness of how singing helps literacy. Robert Munsch is the honorary chair for Family Literacy Day.
Singing is a great literacy activity for families because it provides a fun way to expand spoken vocabulary and creates a strong bond. Singing allows you to learn patterns of words, rhymes and rhythms, and is strongly connected to language skills.
- Sing for Literacy
We went to playgroup today (for those not in Canada, it's like preschool but the parents stay and interact with their kids and other parents.) For Family Literacy Day we brought our teddy bears and did a special teddy bear themed day with teddy crafts, teddy snack and teddy songs and poems and stories at circle time.
This is my children at the sand table
Here they are with their bears at circle time
Here's a poem that was read to us.
We also listened to Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Eric Carle, sang Going on a Bear Hunt and watched a short video of the Teddy Bear's Picnic.
Want to download some literacy activities? (PDF file)
Check out some literacy facts
2 comments:
My son was in a playgroup, but we just met at our houses. It was so much fun. He and I loved our playgroup, so it sounds like a wonderful day to celebrate family literacy!
Our library did something tonight but we couldn't go to close to bed time for my son and with having to get up for school. its too bad it wasn't planned for earlier.
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