Family Literacy Day

Family Literacy Day is right around the corner -- next Tuesday -- January 27, 2015!  Mark the date on your calendar and brainstorm fun things to do as a family!

Thanks to ABC -- Life Literacy Canada here is a list of FUN ways to celebrate learning as a family:

1. Write a joke book with your family.
2. Read a bedtime story to the grown-up putting you to bed.
3. Make up a new recipe together and post it online.
4. Tell knock-knock jokes together while doing the dishes.
5. Organize a book swap at your school.
6. Make up riddles and tell them to your friends.
7. Create a family book club.
8. Build a drum with your family.
9. Surf the Internet and learn about your favourite animal.
10. Make up a song about your day to sing to your family at dinnertime.
11. Write messages to your family on sticky notes and post them around the house.
12. Create a story about what you’ll be doing for Family Literacy Day.
13. Play a board game together.
14. Build an acrostic poem using your hero’s name.
15. Make an origami boat and see if it will float.

If you have some great ideas for making learning (and literacy) fun -- feel free to add them in the comments!

~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~

Focus on the Family Advent Fun!

Check out this free advent devotional available to download!  It comes with an interactive poster where you add characters such as King David, Isaiah and John the Baptist to the poster each day as you read about that person's (or animal's) part in the birth of Jesus!

Visit Focus on the Family to find out more information!

~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~

The Incredibly *FREE* Veggie Tales Christmas Album!

American friends: Head on over to Amazon.com to get a FREE download of the Veggie Tales album: "The Incredible Singing Christmas Tree"!  

Merry Christmas!  (a little early, but you know how I am...)

 ~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~