National Child Day

Last Sunday was National Child Day.

Our local ECE group, in conjunction with our Early Years Collaborative,

put together a kit for schools and Early Year Centres in our Valley.

It included posters, games, activity suggestions for the day

and this book.

I love the book and the illustrations,

the parents loved the book,

but it was too long for a big group of mixed aged children.

But I think it would be wonderful to read it with one to three children.

Talking about what they see happening in the illustrations

and sharing their rights with them.

I photocopied some of the pages and added them to our display

in the main foyer of our school.

One activity suggestion was to have the staff submit photos

of themselves when they were a baby or toddler.

Not all the staff were able to find pictures, for various reasons,

but the ones that did are posted and waiting for students and their parents

to guess who is who?

I challenged my families to try to guess which one is me.

National Child Day

November 20th is National Child Day and this year's theme is:
The right to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Health

To celebrate this day our local Early Childhood Educators hold a 'guest reader' at each of their centres.
Fifteen centres are taking part this year and the ECE organization sponsors it purchasing a book for each centre.  This year's book is Llama Llama Home with Mama by Anna Dewdney.

Our guest, RCMP Officer Godard visited on Friday.
The children and families enjoyed listening to the story.