FLD Event Calendar

January 6-27, 2023, visit Wheatland Regional Library, Southeast Regional Library, or Saskatoon Public Library to pick up your family’s postcard. Mail it to Foundations or drop it off at the library. The first 100 families to return the postcard will receive a free book! https://www.foundationslearning.com/register/family-literacy-day-2023/

Partnered with the Parry Sound Social Services, EarlyON and our Friends of the Library Group, we are putting on this free family event with a special guest author who will be reading a copy of one of her books along with a craft, art and science activities and a healthy lunch to follow!

Literacy Quebec is hosting Jeremy Fisher live to your living room with a virtual concert on Facebook Live for the whole family, including songs from his new TV show, Jeremy and Jazzy. This is open to everyone! Let's sing and "Funky Freeze Dance" together. Find out more at: https://www.literacyquebec.org/family-literacy-week-jeremy-fisher.html

Celebrate Family Literacy Week January 22-28 at the Library! Come to one or more of our Family Literacy Week events at the Bowen Island Library:
Storytime
Babytime
Game Night!
Crafternoon Collages

See all the details and dates at: https://bowenlibrary.ca/event/family-literacy-week/

Join us in celebrating upcoming Family Literacy Day and in getting to know Saskatchewan! We have a suitcase full of fun activities for the family to enjoy. Suitable for pre-school and school aged children.

Join us in celebrating upcoming Family Literacy Day and in getting to know Saskatchewan! We have a suitcase full of fun activities for the family to enjoy. Suitable for pre-school and school aged children.

Come in your jammies, bring your favourite teddy bear for some fun with the library and the EarlyON staff. Appropriate for ages 0 to 6 with a grown up. Register by calling the library 519-392-6801.

Hope Sutton is a local artist and author, who incorporates Ukrainian folklore into her poems and artwork. Hope will have 12 of her painting on display at the Springside Library as well and poetry readings to go with her artwork.

Come make a mixed-media painting using sea glass, red sand and potato printing to celebrate your Island heritage. Open to everyone.

Lucille Scott, a local artist, has illustrated two books for a Métis author Wilfred Burton. She will come read and share with us her story about becoming an illustrator.

Bring your blankets and sheets to transform tables, chairs, nooks & crannies into your family's personal fort inside the Library! Read stories, eat snacks, and enjoy a glow stick dance party. For families of all ages. Call the library to register.

Musician and star of CBC Kids' Jeremy and Jazzy, Jeremy Fisher will be back with Literacy Quebec via Zoom to discuss his work, his show and more. This free event is intended for educators and grown ups. To learn more, visit https://www.literacyquebec.org/family-literacy-week-jeremy-fisher.html

"Developing a Passion for Reading”
Dr. Jessica Saada, B.Ed, M.Ed., Ph.D
Director of Educational and Technology Services & Consultant, Riverside School Board
Title of Presentation: Cereal boxes and shampoo: developing a passion for reading

Join us in Zoom!
https://tinyurl.com/ycx9jfew

Starting the new year with new groups can't wait to start.

We will hold a PJ event from 6-8PM to celebrate our heritage. In partnership with the town library, Qalipu Nation, local author Dawn Bak, and local literacy leaders, we will host an evening involving readings, drum making, paper crafts, and, of course, traditional Newfoundland food! This event is open to all ages and their families.

Enjoy a story, crafts, science and sensory activities. Accompanied by 2 RCMP Constables for reading and Q+A.

Join us and enjoy the humor and talent of DeRic Starlight, the Fraggle Rock puppeteer and commedian. Enjoy a message about literacy shared by Granny from the Blackfoot Confederacy. For all parents, students and community members.

Event is open to the community and families with children aged 12 years and younger are invited to join us at our school. There will be 5 literacy stations that families can rotate through. Each stations will contain a book with a matching literacy, art, steam, stem, science activity that corresponds to the book. We will have cake and refreshments.

Patrons will come in with their families and create a family tree, then paint a family crest.

Join us for a half hour of stories, songs, rhymes, and fun! This story time will be featuring titles such as Me & The Family Tree by Carole Boston Weatherford and Remixed: A Blended Family by Arree Chung. We will also have a display of books dealing with families of all shapes and sizes and materials in our literacy hub to explore your heritage!

To highlight Family Literacy Day, we will tell a story by Robert Munsch virtually on our Hearst Public Library Facebook page. A free activity book will also be available on our Facebook page.

We have created a passport for our library. This will encourage patrons to explore the library and find the answers to the clues in the passport.

Inspired by the honourary chair of this event, author/illustrator Barbara Reid, we invite you and your family to celebrate Family Literacy Day on January 27th at Once Upon a Bookstore!

Our 45 minute sessions will include reading a story that Barbara Reid wrote, and then participating in a workshop about illustrating with modelling clay.

This year to promote literacy and the joy of reading for Family Literacy Week, the Chateauguay Valley Literacy Council is donating 400 books to the Fondation du Centre jeunesse de la Montéregie to distribute in their group homes. Also, CVLC will be giving books to 55 low-income families in the Chateauguay area

On January 27th, we come together for the Annual Family Literacy Day Event. This year, United fo are partnering with community agencies to bring a fun-filled day of family activities, games, reading and prizes!
Local community agencies include; The Thunder Bay Public Library, Early ON Centres and BNA Family Centres.

Enjoy and explore music, photos, maps and activities. We will be doing a variety of Literacy activities, including looking at maps to find where people's origins lie. Looking at the cultural traditions and music of the area, as well as learning more about Canada.

Come in your jammies, bring your favourite teddy bear for some fun with the library and the EarlyON staff. Appropriate for ages 0 to 6 with a grown up. Register by calling the library 519-.367-2814

Join us for a free online reading and live question-and-answer time with author Alix Lwanga and the Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum's book "Li'l Shadd: A Story of Ujima." Sign up for a chance to win a free copy of the book! We will get you free digital resources and activities too.
Sign up: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/shadd

We will have various crafts, games and activities from "All Around the World" to participate in throughout the week starting on January 23 - 27. On Friday the 27 we will also have some special cultural treats available.

Celebrate Family Literacy Day at Georgian Mall with stories by the fire. Read, play and learn together on the Storytime carpet with fun early literacy activities.

Bundle-up for fun at the Outdoor Reading Room at Sunnidale Park, visit the Library Pop-up Story Walk, get a library card, enjoy cool stories, and cozy craft activities. Participate in the City of Barrie Nature Play programs, discover local birds, listen for their calls, and make a winter bird feeder.

Ecole Mountview Elementary School in Red Deer AB! We are thrilled to launch an afternoon of activities in the classroom with a mini-assembly featuring the KVITKA Red Deer Canadian Dance Club! Then, students will create personal crests - to CELEBRATE THEIR HERITAGE. All students and staff are invited to wear their traditional wear if they wish!

Award-winning Writer, emerging filmmaker and photographer Yannis Lobaina will be leading us through bilingual (Spanish_English) creative writing exercises and mixed media collages to explore our heritage by using and honouring our mother tongue. The event will end with a Q&A. This event is ideal for children in grades 3 to 6. Hablemos español!

An afternoon of fun for children and their families at Lafleche Public Library: There will be crafts, games, story time and snacks for everyone!

Bella Coola Elementary is hosting a literacy fair night to celebrate Family Literacy Day. Community members and teachers are setting up stations at our little school for all families to come and participate. Food provided as well!

Family Reading Kits are now available at six Library locations and online. Featuring four different titles for children ages 6-17 and one picture book for younger readers, the kits include discussion questions to spark lively conversation, related activities, and more staff-recommended titles to read aloud as a family or in your classroom.

This Family Literacy Day, the Yukon Literacy Coalition invites all Yukoners to Get Caught Reading and enter to win! The instructions are simple; take a photo of yourself and / or your loved ones reading in fun and creative places, and enter those photos to win a prize!

Rebecca Thomas is a Mi'kmaw activist, author and spoken word artist, the former Poet Laureate of Halifax, and the author of "I'm Finding My Talk." She collaborates with Symphony Nova Scotia, and together they create a new multimedia musical experience that can be shared by all ages, free and online at symphonyns.ca

Drop into our Westminster Square Branch for a family storytime full of fun songs and stories about our community heroes with special visits from some of our local Guelph community heroes. Preschool to Grade 6. No registration required.

Drop into our Westminster Square Branch to celebrate both Family Literacy Day and our community Heroes! Create an art piece, meet real Community Heroes and enjoy a glitter tattoo by the talented artists from Bre Creative.

Grades JK to 6. No registration required.

Grown-ups and their baby- age six kiddos are invited to Stories on the Farm. Event runs from 10am-noon at Sarnia's Canatara Park at the animal farm entrance. Enjoy stories, dancing, singing crafts and more in The Log Cabin, Ted Leaver buiding, Carriage House and Barn. Let's celebrate our differences and learn together about different heritages.

Nice gathering of families and guests to celebrate Family Literacy Day in Nova Scotia.
All are welcome to attend this fun event.
Story telling to children, snacks and surprises for everyone!

The event will feature developmental activities based on the theme of celebrating heritage (cooking, dancing, craft, book sharing, conversation) for families and children at the Family Resource Centre. . Invitations to learning will be set up so that families and their children are encouraged to interact with each other.

Join us for a free family supper, activities and sing-a-long with Gerry Mitchel Production. Registration is required. Call or email the library
lauralee@rlpl.ca or 613-359-5315

Families are invited to join students during their scheduled skating times, or if they have younger children, to join between 10:30 and 11:00am. A story will be set up for participants to skate and read, with an activity bag, snack and hot chocolate available in the lobby. This free event is sponsored by the Town of Davidson and the school.

Celebrate Family Literacy Day with Foundations and the Saskatoon Public Library. Join us at one of the listed libraries for fun learning activities, free books, prizes, and more.
Mayfair Library 602 33rd St W – 10:30-12:00pm
Cliff Wright Library 1635 McKercher Dr – 1:00-2:30pm

Join us for our Alphabet Soup Day Lunch after we create our Family Fun Book using playdough.

Join us at the Lethbridge Public Library Main Branch – Kid's Corner, from 2:30-4:00PM for a good old fashioned game of Bingo to celebrate Family Literacy Day! This is a come-and-go event, light refreshments will be served.

Come celebrate Family Literacy Day with United for Literacy and friends on Friday, January 27th from 10 am to 2 pm at the County Fair Plaza, County Park Branch Library. This is a FREE family event with interactive literacy and numeracy activities that are fun for the whole family. There will also be a story time, giveaways and draws.

A morning filled with fun opportunities for families to reinforce the importance of learning literacy skills with their children. Experience book readings by guest speakers, snacks, and a craft while going home with your own free literacy gift.

Our family literacy day event includes activities for all ages and is open to the general public in Corner Brook, NL. It starts at 1p.m. and runs until 4p.m. During this event family members will be invited to participate in fun literacy based games and activities. Prizes and food will be provided during the event.

Young parent families can join in some fun indoor/outdoor activities and have a chili dinner at Monica Place Waterloo, January 27th from 2:30-5:30PM, or come to Monica Place Cambridge on January 28th from 1-4PM. Of course, there will be music and storytime and book giveaways as well! Pre-register at judyf@monicaplace.ca *Covid screening mandatory

Students and teachers from Kindergarten to grade 9 will be wearing readable T-shirts to school as well as participating in various activities. Teachers have sent home a BINGO for families to complete and submit for a draw for Indigo gift cards.

Celebrate Family Literacy Week at the library with fun, free activities for all ages. Drop-in.

Come down to the mall for a interactive Storywalk! Read the book Lil Shadd while also experiencing: cultural activities, museum artifacts, art projects and much more. First 50 families to participate will receive a copy of the book and family fun kit to take home! Don't forget: everyone get a book and a snack... AND its all FREE!!!

Join us at the Walter Harris Memorial Branch in Markdale for a special storytime and craft with local author Carolyn j Morris. Carolyn will be reading her book Winter Ride and painting wooden sleighs. This program is free, no registration is required, and is in celebration of Family Literacy Day. Learn more by visiting www.abclifeliteracy.ca.

The Henday Association, the library and local organizations are partnering to have Stories, Family Activities, Mary Lambert, and Food. 11-3pm

Come celebrate Family Literacy Day at the Glace Bay Library! We will be making mini books!
Registration Required.
You can call 902 849 8657; or email ajessome@cbrl.ca or ewilliams@cbrl.ca to register.

You’re invited to CELEBRATE literacy, learning and having fun together. There will be coffee for the adults, and snacks for the kids (thanks to Saanich Peninsula Literacy). The legendary Nancy Dobbs entertains with her guitar from 10:30 – 11:15 am. Anyone who enjoys stories, making music together and spreading positivity is WELCOME. Free.

Celebrate National Family Literacy Day at our 11th annual Winter Carnival! It will take place at MacEwan’s Downtown Campus, Building 6 (Clocktower Entrance) in the Main floor cafeteria from 1:00–4:00 where we will have interactive activities, special guest readers, and book giveaways! Visit www.famlit.ca to register for this free event.