Let’s Celebrate Family Literacy Day 2022!
Family Literacy Day takes place every January 27
th 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.
ABC Life Literacy Canada creates free learning and resources to get everyone involved! Taking time every day to read or do a learning activity with children is crucial to a child’s development, improving a child’s literacy skills dramatically, and can help a parent improve their skills as well.
Conversations About Culture: Video and Lesson Plan
This video and lesson plan introduces the concept of cultural humility as a guiding principle for effective cross-cultural communication and collaboration. It includes a variety of helpful information, self-assessment tools, and reflective exercises for educators, students, and faculty engaged in cross-cultural research and partnerships. It was produced in association with the
UB Centre for Social Research.
Making Caring Common
Making Caring Common has a variety of resources for families, parents, and caregivers. They offer activities, tips, resource lists, and discussion guides to help you and your team
foster kindness and caring with the children in your program.
Newcomer Tips for a Fire-Safe Winter
Mississauga Fire is proud to serve a vibrant and growing community that is home to many new Canadians. To ensure that family homes are safe this winter, they've put together a
helpful list of winter fire safety tips and translated them into multiple languages. It's full of great information and resource links that you can share with the families you work with as they establish roots in your community!
Dealing With Uncertainty in the Face of Omicron
We don’t know how bad Omicron will turn out to be. But the appearance of the new COVID variant has already introduced more uncertainty at a time when our patience has been worn thin by nearly two years of pandemic disruptions.
Child Mind Institute has some tips for
how to stay positive and manage stress.
Children’s Book: Building a Home – Available Online in 7 Languages!
The New Canadians Centre in Peterborough has published this new children’s picture book that shares the experiences of immigrant children when they arrive in Canada.
Building a Home is available online in 7 languages. Written and illustrated by Peterborough artist Casandra Lee (herself a recent immigrant), Building A Home was inspired by the stories of six local newcomer children.
Global Family Day 2022
Apart from welcoming New Year, people across the world celebrate
Global Family Day every year on January 1. This day is also known as World Peace Day and it is commemorated with the goal of starting the year with a good message of harmony among the global community. This day reminds us all to spend quality time with family, and encourages people from different ethnicities, religions, colours as well as nationals to come together to promote world peace and find a way to thrive together.
Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity in Teaching ‘People Safety’ Skills
Kidpower has developed a list of lessons learned about creating cultural awareness to address potential obstacles in teaching people how to advocate for and protect the emotional and physical well-being of themselves and others - especially children. The purpose is always to
build a mutually trusting and respectful relationship, listen, and adapt to meet people where they are.
Creating Opportunities for Active Play
By now, you have probably heard about the importance of regular physical activity. You are likely aware that establishing strong physical activity habits at a young age increases the chance of maintaining healthy activity levels into adulthood. Here are some
developmentally appropriate activities that can help us instill a love of physical activity for children of all ages!
In Observance of Human Rights Day
Learning about human rights helps to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes that empower us to stand up for our rights the rights of others. Here are some suggestions for simple activities to get involved in
Human Rights Day this month.
