READING ADVENTURE 2008

PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS,

LTC/HCC Speech Services and the Child Resource Centre, invite you and your children to their

'Reading Adventure' Program

This program helps parents and children learn and practice early literacy and language skills through storytelling and crafts and promotes literacy at home.

Each week will feature story time, a literacy related activity, a craft for two specific age groups, and a nutritious snack for the children.

The program runs every Wednesday morning July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, August 6, 13, 20
10:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m at the Child Resource Centre located at 18 Stoneridge Circle.

So come and join them for this fun eight week program filled with fun, learning and ADVENTURE!!!

No pre-registration is needed.

- Six Nations Long-Term Care/Home and Community Care Program, Speech Services

Why Junior Students Read

Junior students read:

for enjoyment - The teacher makes time for independent reading and makes available texts of all types.

for vicarious experiences - The teacher reads aloud and discusses a broad selection of literary and informational texts.

to learn more about themselves and others - The teacher shares critical responses and gives the students opportunities to respond to appropriate content for the age, gender and cultural diversity of the classroom.

to gain information - The teacher demonstrates strategies to deal with informational texts.

to understand issues - The teacher models how to question texts and think critically while exploring social issues.

for aesthetic appreciation - The teacher gives the students opportunities to respond to texts through the arts (choral reading, readers' theatre. literature circles, visual arts, book clubs).

- A Guide to Effective Literacy Instruction Grades 4-6 (Vol. 5 - Reading), page 11, 2008

CHIEFSWOOD MUSEUM COMMUNITY AWARENESS POETRY CONTEST

May 16-25

Contest Theme:

The Sun, The Moon and Me
Write a poem about nature, the environment and your role/relationship within each.

Contest Rules:
1. All students in grades 4-6 are invited to participate through their school.
2. Entries must be original poems about nature, the environment, and your role/relationship within each. Poems must be written in class or at home. No copied poems.
3. Entries must be submitted on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper.
4. Entries may be illustrated. Illustrations/drawings should reflect the meaning of the poem.
5. Authors must write their name, grade and school on their submission.
6. Attach a signed Parental Release Form. No poem will be judged without a signed parental release form.
7. DEADLINE: All poems must be received no later than May 23, 2008 at 4:00 p.m.
8. Poems will not be returned.
9. You may send photocopies.
10. Make sure students and parents have a copy before you send poems to us.
11. Fill out one entry form for your school and include it with student entries. You will find it in this contest packet (titled School Entry Form).

Send entries to:
Chiefswood Museum Community Awareness Week Poetry Contest
P.O. Box 640
Ohsweken, Ontario
N0A 1M0

Or to deliver:
Chiefswood Curators Cottage
1037 Highway 54 at Chiefswood Road
(Small green and white building located within Chiefswood Park, directly across from Museum)