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Early Years Family Resource Centre celebrated 'Hooray For Me' themed Family Literacy Day

The indoor activities included songs, dance, story reading, and snacks, as well as offering horse-drawn wagon rides outside at their facility on Friday, Jan. 27. 

The Moose Jaw Early Years Family Resource Centre (EYFRC) celebrated Family Literacy Day with its “Hooray For Me” theme. The indoor activities included songs, dance, story reading, and snacks, as well as offering horse-drawn wagon rides outside at their venue on Jan. 27. 

“We’ve got lots of fun activities going on,” said Rebecca Mackey, facilitator of EYFRC. “We are so excited and so happy to see so many faces; it’s lots of fun.”

“The theme for today is celebrating our heritage. We are providing many activities with children ages zero to five to talk about their family, draw about their family and sing about their family,” said Wanda Peakman, co-ordinator of EYFRC.

She said the EYFRC organized the activities for literacy during an in-person event, making it easier to build connections and relationships with families.

“It’s great to just get to know everybody,” she said. 

EYFRC arranged stories and storybooks on the wall down the hallway, dance programs and activities were also held. One of their interesting social diversity connections was about heritage, to write the names of cookies in their ethnic language.  

Their most popular activity was the horse-drawn wagon rides. 

She says, for many families, this is a completely new experience to take a horse-drawn wagon ride. 

Mackey said her favourite activity was seeing the smiling faces of the families and the kids participating. 

“We are happy to see everybody and hope to see them come to upcoming events,” Mackey said.

 

 

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