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Family Literacy Day will celebrate 15 years of learning together on Sunday.
The initiative, first celebrated by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999, has since been embraced by schools and libraries in communities across Canada.
This year, in honour of the 15th anniversary, ABC Life Literacy Canada is encouraging families to take 15 minutes a day to learn together.
“Learning opportunities occur at home every day,” says Anthony Alfred, interim president of ABC Life Literacy Canada.
“The benefits of learning as a family outside the classroom are significant — not only are children exposed to a culture of lifelong learning, but the bond between parent and child can grow with each teachable moment.”
Even time spent doing the dishes, eating dinner or having a bath can have a focus on learning in a fun way. It’s important to embrace these teachable moments at home, even if it’s just 15 minutes a day.
Here are some great ways to get started:
• Create your own comic strip about your family.
• Invent two new endings to your favourite book.
• Make up a new recipe together and post it online.
• Tell knock-knock jokes together while doing the dishes.
• Sing five songs really, really loud!
• Invent a new game while playing at the park.
• Read a story to your pet (or favourite toy).
• Make a paper fortune teller with eight fortunes.
• Write a silly poem and tell it to your family at dinner.
• Log on to your favourite word game — can you beat your best score?
• Create your family tree.
• Play rhyming “I Spy” — “I spy something that rhymes with ...”
• Play a board game together.
• Text your friend and tell them about your holiday.
• Find 15 things that begin with the letter “S.”
For more great ways to have 15 minutes of fun together or to find a Family Literacy Day event in your community, visit FamilyLiteracyDay.ca.
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition January 26, 2013
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The initiative, first celebrated by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999, has since been embraced by schools and libraries in communities across Canada.
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The initiative, first celebrated by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999, has since been embraced by schools and libraries in communities across Canada.
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