CORNWALL, Ontario – Parents and students alike were having fun on Family Literacy Day at Bishop MacDonell Catholic School on Friday, Jan. 26.
Parents were invited into the classroom to take part in activities centred around literacy.
Family Literacy Day is a national campaign to promote the importance of learning as a family and practicing literary skills at home.
The students at Bishop MacDonell were focused on mathematical literacy skills this year.
Kindergarten teacher Christina Lapierre said that sometimes the best at home literacy excercises can be the simplest.
“I always say its the things we do all the time,” she said. “Like sorting laundry, going to the grocercy store and having your child look for cucumbers, counting the numbers on the houses.”
Isaac Aubin, a kindergarten student at Bishop MacDonell was joined by his grandmother Debbie Henderson and his mom Samantha Lague at the school for Family Literacy Day.
Henderson said that the family often does counting and reading exercises with Isaac at home and his mother Samantha said that Isaac loves books and loves to make up stories of his own.
