{"id":1133,"date":"2010-01-28T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2010-01-28T10:17:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:17:04","slug":"january-27%e2%80%94family-literacy-day-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/january-27%e2%80%94family-literacy-day-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"January 27\u2013Family Literacy Day in Canada!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always a busy week \u2014 but the kind of busy that makes a children\u2019s librarian smile. Tuesday night, I was invited to read at the local Family Resource Centre. 20 kids in their PJ\u2019s listened and sang along with \u201cPickin\u2019 Peas\u201d\u009d by Margaret Read MacDonald. Wednesday, I was at an elementary school, with 148 students in grades Primary through 3 (that\u2019s K-3 for those who don\u2019t speak Nova Scotian). With 5 different groups I read \u201cAnansi and the Moss-Covered Rock\u201d\u009d by Eric Kimmel, and then re-enacted it with puppets. Tomorrow night I\u2019ll be telling a story at the <strong>Ceilidh<\/strong> being held at one of our branches. All across Canada, libraries, schools, and other family-centered organizations are holding celebrations, sing-alongs and special storytimes to commemorate literacy. It is a very feel-good holiday here in the land of snow and cold temps, something to warm our souls in the height of winter. This year, the theme is \u201cSing for Literacy\u201d\u009d, which has been a lot of fun. Everyone loves music, and Nova Scotians love it more than the average bear. We\u2019ve had great turnout for our sing-alongs and campfires. One branch created a fake fire and after songs and stories around the fire, distributed sticks and marshmallows. Anyone who sees a group of kids with real sticks and marshmallows pretending to roast them over a tissue-paper fire has got to admit that libraries do great things. Not only do we offer amazing deals on books (free), and a gaggle of other resources, we build imaginations. This is the stuff that dreams are made of. I just love libraries. And Family Literacy Day is pretty cool, too.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WO-fld2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WO fld2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always a busy week \u2014 but the kind of busy that makes a children\u2019s librarian smile. Tuesday night, I was invited to read at the local Family Resource Centre. 20 kids in their PJ\u2019s listened and sang along with \u201cPickin\u2019 Peas\u201d\u009d by Margaret Read MacDonald. Wednesday, I was at an elementary school, with 148 students in grades Primary through 3 (that\u2019s K-3 for those who don\u2019t speak Nova Scotian). With 5 different groups I read \u201cAnansi and the Moss-Covered Rock\u201d\u009d by Eric Kimmel, and then re-enacted it with puppets. Tomorrow night I\u2019ll be telling a story at the Ceilidh being held at one of our branches. All across Canada, libraries, schools, and other family-centered organizations are holding celebrations, sing-alongs and special storytimes to commemorate literacy. It is a very feel-good holiday here in the land of snow and cold temps, something to warm our souls in the height of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[66,22,38,36],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-angela-reynolds","category-childrens-literature","category-programming-ideas","category-slice-of-life","tag-family-literacy-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}