It’s a skill you use every day, reading!
January is Literacy Month and Open Roads School in Dryden is ending off the final week on a high note.
Literacy Teacher Karen Kudlacek Literacy talks about events this week.
“We’ve asked people to wear hats (Monday) and we call that our ‘Hats On To Literacy Day’ to start the week off. To close our celebrations (Thursday) we have a ‘PJ And Pen Light Day’ then we turn out the lights, use flashlights and the whole school stops, drops and reads at the same time.”
While some activities couldn’t go on as normal due to COVID-19, Kudlacek says they got creative.
“We’ve been posting some daily challenges for our families to participate in on our Facebook page. Doing little things like reading a recipe, because literacy involves such a variety of things or playing a board game that involves reading, reading poems, doing a cross word puzzle. They’re all literacy themed activities and their name will go in for a draw, if they participate, for a nice gift basket at the end.”
She adds community members have also been very helpful, by sending in videos of themselves reading to families and students.
Kudlacek talks about the importance of literacy.
“January 27th is family literacy day and we use that opportunity to try to promote the importance of literacy across our school. Literacy is such an important factor for a student to be successful in the future. A wise mentor of mine once told me that if you can read, you can do anything. I really, truly do believe that. If we can give kids the opportunity to learn to read then they really will be able to be successful and be able to do whatever they want for future careers.”
Open Roads School Literacy Activities This Week/Open Roads Public School Facebook Page
