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Hillview celebrates Family Literacy Day

Mac Olsen
for South Peace News

Parents joined their children at Hillview School in East Prairie Metis Settlement Jan. 27 for Family Literacy Day.

Karen Lemay, the ECS/Grade 1 teacher, explained the importance of why children and their parents should read together.

“It all starts at home,” says Lemay. “It’s important that children understand, reading doesn’t take place just at school. It’s at home, too.”

Students and their parents worked on a project in the gym in the afternoon. Each student wrote on their piece of paper about who their literacy angel is and why. It has to be somebody outside the school, who reads with them or encourages them to read.

Each student’s photo will also be placed on their paper. Then all the papers will be put into a book for the school library.

After working on their papers, the students went out to the playground to make snow angels. Later, they returned to the gym for hot dogs and hot chocolate.

There was also a draw for three $25 gift certificates. The winners were Val Prinz, Danielle Supernault and Mavis Supernault. They can use their certificates towards the purchase of books from the Scholastic Book Club flyer, for their home libraries.

Family Literacy Day is held across Canada each year on Jan. 27. It was created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999. Its purpose is to highlight the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family.



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