Family Literacy Day 2012

Family Literacy Day 2012, a set on Flickr.

Crafting for Family Literacy Day 2012 – surprises, laughter and learning

Our small celebration of Family Literacy Day was filled with surprises, laughter and learning.

All our projects together

No only did our participants span 50+ years in age, but we had abilities of all levels, we created pouches from an original pattern written by one of our own, and some of our participants turned from attendee to instructor.

Hey Google: Look at what Google + has done for our Hearing Impaired Learners!

Photo by cambodia4kidsorg

We integrated Google Apps in mid-2009, amid some skepticism of how this would fit into our Literacy program.  The benefits were immediate and palpable.  Not only did we now have a unified email handle, we now had communication and collaboration at our fingertips.  It wasn’t long before Google became a normal part of our program.

Now, to give you a bit of background on our program, Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council runs 4 programs: the Literacy and Basic Skills program, the Sioux Lookout and Hudson Learning Centres, and our online program, Good Learning Anywhere.  We have many unique and, I think, wonderful opportunities for adult learners, both locally and province-wide.

Family Literacy

January 27^th has been designated Family Literacy day…

such a formal title for something I feel is so intimate. Reading with my kids has always been our “special time”. I was fortunate to find a love of books early in life, and have been equally as fortunate to share this with my kids, Jacob (8), and Ashley (6).

I LOVE stories – they take me far away, to places I only can only dream of and introduce me to people that I am amazed at and where happy endings DO happen. When it’s library day at my kids’ school, it’s usually me that is eagerly opening their backpacks searching for the new book!

Around the age of 6, my son wasn’t into the stories anymore. The Berenstain Bears were too young, he wasn’t enjoying or getting into the suspense of the Magic Tree House and Harry Potter was WAY too scary. I started to worry about him losing his joy of picking up a new book.  And then it happened.**