{"id":15930,"date":"2017-06-21T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=15930"},"modified":"2017-06-20T19:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T23:38:58","slug":"whats-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/whats-big-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Big Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to gather your community for stories, art, and food? Looking for a way to make family literacy a part of daily life? We are trying to do just that with a series we are calling Big Ideas<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n

At each session, families are invited to share a picture book and story discussion, work on an art project, and enjoy a light meal at the \u201ccommunity feast\u201d. We have a grant to do five sessions, once a month from May through September.<\/p>\n

Big Ideas<\/em> celebrates our identity & diversity by facilitating experiences incorporating arts & crafts, music, and food from different cultural groups in our region of Nova Scotia, including Acadian, Mi\u2019kmaq, African Nova Scotian, and European descent. The series will include reading & discussion of culturally diverse books. Big Ideas<\/em> hopes to build a cultural legacy by developing a sense of pride and optimism about Nova Scotia\u2019s future through story sharing, multi-generational conversation, sharing of food, and relationship building.\u00a0 As a culminating activity we will create a large scale art piece to represent the learning and sharing that occurred during the program.
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\nSo far we\u2019ve held two of our events. The last one, just a few weeks ago, was on one of the first warm sunny days we\u2019ve had this summer, and so we got a smaller turnout than we hoped. But after sharing the book \u201cThe People of the Sea<\/a>\u201d by Donald Uluadluak, we took a walk down to the beach nearby. As I stood with my feet in the cold water, watching waves roll in, a five-year old boy came up to me. He took my hand, and said, \u201cDo you see that out in the water? I think it is a woman. Do you see her? \u201c\u00a0 We had a long conversation about what might be out there, in the sea.<\/p>\n

This moment made me realize that our programs are not all about numbers. Yes, it would be nice to have more people show up. But that day, the book we shared and that walk to the beach made that story come alive for this little guy. That\u2019s one of our goals, to make stories relevant and get kids thinking about \u201cbig ideas\u201d. It may seem like a small win, but I like to think that this boy will remember that story for a long time, and to me, that\u2019s a big win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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