Family Literacy Day takes place every January 27th to raise awareness about the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family. Since 1999, thousands of schools, libraries, literacy organizations and other community groups have taken part in the initiative. Taking time every day to read or do a learning activity with children is crucial to a child’s development and to improving a child’s literacy skills.

K-12 students at Sudbury Catholic schools participated in a variety of activities to celebrate this day!

Here are just a few highlights:

• Kindergarten/Grade 1 Remote learners in Ms. Jarrett’s class read Artic Living and then visited Iqaluit using Google Earth and even learned some Inuktitut language.
• Grade 5/6 Holy Cross School Students in Ms. Mehes dressed up as their favourite book character and prepared a short presentation “en francais” about their chosen character.
• At Holy Trinity School, Mrs. Yasko and Mr. Vicedomini’s FDK students welcomed Kathy Leroux (via zoom) into their classroom to do a virtual reading of her story book “Tess Baker, With the Right Ingredients Anything is Possible.”
• Staff and students at St. Paul School wore their comfy pajamas and curled up to read a book!.

Later in the day, families were invited to virtual story time with Superintendents, Nicole Bedard and Rossella Bagnato. They read the book Cadeaux/Gifts and then joined ABC Life Literacy’s national celebration where Author and illustrator Barbara Reid demonstrated how to use clay to create a picture.

It was a fantastic day for our students, educators and families!

Watch Improving Literacy Together as a Family for more information about Family Literacy Day 2021.

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