Every year on January 27, Family Literacy Day is recognized all across Canada and this year everyone is celebrating the 20th year.
We spoke with Charlene Lyall the Grade 4 teacher at the JHMS 4-12 School.
Lyall says Family Literacy Day is held on Jan 27 each year but this year it falls on a Sunday so the elementary grades from 4-6 will be holding their FLD on Friday Jan 25.
And the Grades Kindergarten to grade 3 will be holding their family literacy day on Monday January 28.
She says they usually hold this event at separate times just in case there are any parents who would like to attend for both schools.
Lyall adds that the Family Literacy Day was started as an event to promote reading and other literacy based events between children and their families.
This year is a different theme, and every year, but since this is the 20th anniversary this year’s theme is “take 20” encouraging 20 minutes of reading/reading activity everyday with your child.
The event on Friday will consist of roughly 20 minutes of family buddy reading time and 20 minutes of a literacy game with prizes, teachers at JHMS are very much looking forward to this and the students always enjoy time with their parents or guardians.
The elementary grades 4-6 event will be held at 11am at the K-12 library this Friday and the Primary school will be holding their event on Monday Jan 28, time is yet to be determined.