Family Literacy Day Calendar

Chateauguay Valley Literacy Council in association with Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church presented the story THE THIRD GIFT as a PPT presentation on ZOOM concluding with a discussion about Myrrh and a sing-a-long of 'We Three Kings of Orient Are.' 28 children attended the event with accompanying adults for a total of 52 people. Fun was had by all!

On-going Bingo game beginning Jan 4th and running until Jan 27th. Participate in the activities mentioned on the bingo card (found on our website and facebook page) over the course of the month and then send us a photo of your completed card and/or pictures of your family enjoying the activities to be entered into a draw for family prize!

Between January 14-28, 2021, visit any Wheatland Regional or Saskatoon Public Library branch to pick up your family's postcard. The first 100 families to mail in the completed postcard to READ Saskatoon will receive a brand new book. Check out our website for more details.
https://www.readsaskatoon.com/events/details/family-literacy-day536.html

We held a daily contest for a week of different literary trivia questions. We had 98 people participate. We also had a Family Popcorn Fun Pack - patrons could sign out two books, DVDs, etc and receive a Family Pack with DIY popcorn boxes and a package of popcorn (free).

I created google slides of Barbara Reid books and we voted as a class to view Fox Walks Alone and students were asked to be ready with playdough, plasticine, or clay (remotely learning) and we viewed Barbara speak of her techniques through videos.Watched a sun set one created and one with lightning she showed.Students were inspired and created fox

Celebrate Family Literacy Day!
Join us for this information session on selecting age-appropriate books, and what you can do to start building your babies literacy.
This Babies and Books session is facilitated by a Speech Language Pathologist

A family fun event to kick off Family Literacy week. Families are invited to explore the Gateway Mall as they discover the pages of the book, Never Rub Noses with a Narwhal, written by Ruth Wellborn. The book ends at the Prince Albert Literacy office. Participating families will families will receive a FREE family fun kit and a copy of the book!

Downtown Campbell River businesses have selected a country and will decorate their windows in that theme. Parents and children will find each country and submit a record to our Literacy Association. Each store will have a draw for a book for the country they have chosen. One of our many events.

Children's musician Erick Traplin kicks off Family Literacy Week with a Facebook live performance! Beginning January 24th running through to January 30th, opportunities to explore and enjoy literacy can be accessed from the comfort of home! Tune in daily or at a time that is convenient. https://www.facebook.com/events/423092212337507

We're very pleased to have award winning Canadian author Marie-Louise Gay join us for this special event! Stay tuned to hear her read selections from her book Travels with My Family. Check out our website www.jmcpl.ca or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jmcpl.ca during the week of January 24th to 30th to watch this fantastic online video!

Our school participates in Literacy Week with activities to engage our students and parents in the Love of Reading. Through participation students will be rewarded with prizes and satisfaction for completing activities planned throughout the week.

January 27th is Family Literacy Day. In celebration of this important event, join Natalie, our Prenatal / Postnatal Coordinator for a Facebook live session discussing Book Sharing for Babies.
When: Monday, January 25th, 2021
Time: 1:30pm
Where: facebook/earlychildhoodpreandpostnatal

Jan.25-29 Family Ties will post literacy activities for families- how to improve literacy skills, word search/crossword puzzles, We will post the event with Barbara Reid, print and distribute the Travel the World Together workbook to children in Family Ties Youth Programs. All participants eligible for Chapters and Scholastic gift cards.

Our Virtual event is happening online for families and in-school for students.

Visit our facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SSMPL to find a Soo Greyhound player announcing the literacy day challenge. Send us a picture of your challenge for a chance to win Soo Greyhound prizes!

Visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SSMPL to see Dash sharing today's Family Literacy Day Challenge. Dash is challenging you to build something that is hockey themed. Send the library your challenge picture at lib.childdk@cityssm.on.ca to be entered to win Soo Greyhound prizes!

Barbara will be doing a demonstration on how to use clay to create a picture. She will share unique techniques you can use to make different things. The event will end with a Q&A. Learn more and register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuce-sqT8rHNK0eU4w9bwslzTIxSjnld7S

Join us in celebration of Family Literacy Day with a virtual Village Storytime & Activities Package! Village Storytime features storybooks about travel & adventure, read aloud by local community members. Our Activities package holds 7 days worth of 15 minute activities families can do to start a Family Literacy habit!

Virtual contest. South Mountain Hamilton residents can submit or recommend a book title for other readers via social media or email to enter contest. A draw will take place on the 27th and the winners will be dropped off their book bundles.

Are you fastest enough to win a race around the world? Using Google Earth & from the comfort of your own home, collect navigation points from the worlds most interesting, exciting and mysterious landmarks. https://www.okotokslibrary.ca/Events/Race-Around-the-World?id=1611774000-222520

Withdraw a Barbara Reid book from the library for FLD 2021, and receive a package of modelling clay and base, for your creation. Families are encouraged to create an image from their book or to register, attend and create from the virtual event with Barbara Reid on the 27th, then send us a digital picture of their creation.

The Airdrie Public Library will be releasing videos of fun activities families can do together!

This year due to COVID restrictions, we are bringing Family Literacy Day to our community! Families will register and on January 27, we will drop off via contactless drop off a book and craft supplies for children to create "book monsters".

We will do in-class or virtual: collect fav recipes and make a cookbook. Virtual share recipes and do a demo making the treat. 2. All families create a book together reminding us of all the positive and memorable things of 2020. Share our memories with each other.
Kinders like marking their spot in books. They will make book marks for everyone,

Join us for an online challenge from Monday, Jan. 25 to Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021! NWT families are encouraged to do any activity from Barbara Reid's Tipsheet: https://tinyurl.com/y22u3qx5 and submit a photo to be entered in a prize draw. Visit us at www.facebook.com/NWTLiteracyCouncil and www.nwtliteracy.ca/blog for more details during the week.

When a dragon takes your money what’s the best way to get it back? Why, a dancing contest of course! We are pleased to present a very special puppet show with our friends from Applefun Puppetry. Join us on Facebook Live for “Robinhood and the Dragon” and stay for a meet and greet with all the puppets! https://www.ajaxlibrary.ca/?q=node/1425

To celebrate Family Literacy Day, the library is giving away free children's books from Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program! Drop by, call and visit your local library, today!

Family Literacy Day® is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 and held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the imp

To celebrate Family Literacy Day, the library is giving away free children's books from Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program! Drop by, call and visit your local library, today!

Family Literacy Day® is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 and held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the imp

To celebrate Family Literacy Day, the library is giving away free children's books from Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program! Drop by, call and visit your local library, today!

Family Literacy Day® is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 and held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the imp

To celebrate Family Literacy Day, the library is giving away free children's books from Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program! Drop by, call and visit your local library, today!

To celebrate Family Literacy Day, the library is giving away free children's books from Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program! Drop by, call and visit your local library, today!

To celebrate Family Literacy Day, the library is giving away free children's books from Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program! Drop by, call and visit your local library, today!

To celebrate Family Literacy Day, the library is giving away free children's books from Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program! Drop by, call and visit your local library, today!

To celebrate Family Literacy Day, the library is giving away free children's books from Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program! Drop by, call and visit your local library, today!

Join us for a variety of online contests and the chance to win a prize!
1. Design a postcard for Lloydminster
2. Read and Draw Challenge
3. I SPY-Travel Edition
4. Journey Around the World
Visit our website at lloydlearningcouncil.org for more info!
Pick up your free literacy kit from the Lloydminster Learning Council's office or Legacy DIY!

At Sudbury Catholic Schools we are celebrating Family Literacy Day with the following events:
1. Share Your Love for Reading- Social Media Contest
2. Story time with Superintendents (virtual event)
3. Joining the Special Event with Barbara Reid
https://sites.google.com/sudburycdsb.ca/learnathome/primaryjunior-resources?authuser=0

We will be hosting a live Rhyme Time session from the Didsbury Municipal Library, join us on Facebook live. The Rhyme Time will be recorded and available on our page after the event. We will have fun books bags available to pick up at the library all day, featuring picture books and activities.

Families will receive a kit containing a book, Bookmark, recipes, activity sheets from ABC Life Literacy website, children's crafts, etc. These will be dropped off at the Families home due to COVID-19 protocols in place.

Drop by for a free book n January 27th between the hours of 11:30am and 2pm

Join the Orangeville Public Library virtually to watch a special storytime with guest reader, local author Winston F. Uytenbogaart and enjoy his latest children's book The Library Pet Parade with the whole family at home.

The event is a recording available on the Orangeville Public Library YouTube channel.

Join CALS, Vegreville Centential Library and Vegreville Family Resource Network as we present our annual Family Literacy Day event via Facebook and YouTube. A variety of videos will be posted from January 27 to January 29 featuring cooking, songs, stories, and plenty of guest speakers. For more information contact 780-632-3225

Students are invited to dress up as their favourite author (even if they are their own favourite author) or character from a book. This invitation is extended to students in the school as well as students who are learning from home.

The Manitouwadge Public Library and Manitouwadge Learning Centre will partner together to offer online events through out the day including: travel trivia game, Canadian story read-aloud, a story-writing event with contributions from the whole community, and surprising literacy stats.

From January 20th to 26th, the correct answer to a "Travel the World trivia question of the day" gets you a ballot for our prize package valued at $100.00. Have fun researching the answers with your family. Learn about your neighbours next door and around the globe. https://www.facebook.com/literacylambton. Open to Lambton County ON residents only.

Hosted on Zoom by the Library.

Join Halifax Public Libraries and Read To Me for a Family Literacy Day Celebration! There will be stories, songs, play and fun fun for babies, tots and preschoolers.

Families can pick up bags with a library book and family literacy activity pages.

Starting January 27, families can visit the Moose Jaw Early Years Family Resource Centre and take a walk through our Story Trail featuring the book "Never Rub Noses With a Narwhal" by Ruth Wellborn and Illustrated by Morgan Wellborn. Families can then pop into the Centre to receive a free copy of the book and a bag of activities!

The library invites young families to join our Family Literacy Day Celebration with an online circus performance by Femmes du Feu entitled “Tweet Tweet”. TWEET TWEET! is the story of a magical tree and two young birds. The show will be available on the Ottawa Public Library Youtube channel here from January 27 – 31, 2021.

REKSAP will be celebrating Literacy Day this year by reading stories like "My Cat Likes to Hide In Boxes" by Eve Sutton, and "Gifts" by Jo Ellen Bogart & Barbara Reid. Each age group will be learning about different countries in their own unique way & expanding those teachable moments into all learning areas, like art, science and music!

We will be unveiling our newest StoryWalk(R) on January 27 to celebrate Family Literacy Day! We will feature Barbara Reid's book, Imagine un Arbre/Picture a Tree in both French and English. We will also be offering a limited number of free kits to make your own plasticine picture.

We will have an all day virtual event: authors reading books for children and specialists sharing information for families. Hospitalized children will be able to access these events through their in- room Tv and others through the hospital YouTube channel. Books will be given out to all th hospitalized children by the Child Life Specialists.

On January 27th we will be celebrating Family Literacy Day with a special ABC! Story Time Live on our CPL Youth Group Facebook Page. Following the ABC! Story Time a series of literacy activities will be available for download throughout the day at http://www.cpl.social/FamilyLiteracyDay

Students will read stories and poems in Inuktitut and English at the local radio station. Anyone with a radio (Elders, families at home, drivers, office workers, etc.) will be able to listen to the children read. There is potential for this to become an ongoing activity in Igloolik.

Multiple events:
1. January 27 Never Rub Noses with a Narwhal - Ruth Wellborn. Book reading and activities on YouTube at 10:30 at saskliteracy.ca/narwhal
2. Story Trails
3. Story Walks
4. February 11 Hockey Night in Kenya - Danison Mutinda and Eric Walkers Book reading/activities

Read Around the World Week runs from Family Literacy Day on Wednesday, January 27 through World Read Aloud Day on Wednesday, February 3. Find daily stories on our YouTube channel, a kick off and wrap up event on Facebook, links to activities on the website, as well as virtual programs throughout the week. We are so glad you decided to join us!

Join Saskatchewan author, Ruth Wellborn as she presents an online reading of her book, Never Rub Noses with a Narwhal. This captivating book will transport you to the Arctic, meeting blubbery belugas, capering caribou, and waiting walruses, as well as the peoples who have lived there for thousands of years!
https://saskliteracy.ca/narwhal/

The Silvin's Adults Literacy Program is a flagship program to help eradicate ilitteracy in Sierra Leone

Celebrating Family Literacy Day
Friday 10:00 AM, January 28th
to Saturday at 3:00 PM, January 30th 2021
Enjoy a walk around the downtown area and read a story
Upon completion, return to the Library and receive a craft kit for each family while supplies last.
Sponsored by: SW Literacy Hub, Maple Creek Regional Library, Regional KidsFirst

A self-guided StoryWalk® for families to get outside, travel the neighbourhood, read a book together, and have fun.
This event is entirely outside, people should dress for the weather.

For 4 days, starting on Family Literacy Day, we will share an activity a day on YouTube, with the Carnival going live on Zoom on the 5th day.
Jan 27 - Travel to Space
Jan 28 - Food from Around the World
Jan 29 - Explore your own World
Jan 30 - Music from around the World
Jan 31 - Live on Zoom (2-4 PM) Story Time, Kids Yoga, Rhymes, and Story