{"id":3097,"date":"2025-06-18T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:59:22","slug":"fairview-elementary-puts-spotlight-on-literacy-at-after-school-family-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/fairview-elementary-puts-spotlight-on-literacy-at-after-school-family-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairview Elementary puts spotlight on literacy at after-school family event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3098\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress1.blob.core.windows.net\/fairview\/2025\/06\/FVE-literacy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Families gathered around a glowing faux campfire in a classroom at Fairview Elementary, as music filled the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were like, singing rhyming songs with Dr. Saul,\u201d said Grade 3 student Addison. \u201cWe had to do rhyming about animals, like a bear combing his hair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campfire was just one of the stations at Fairview\u2019s family literacy event on May 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point is [\u2026] to promote literacy but also to show parents and kids how it can be fun,\u201d said Sheralyn Rowledge-Toscani, a Grade 2\/3 teacher who helped organize the event. \u201cAnd learning happens more often if you\u2019re having fun while you\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0SqvEIqX6Q?si=wFuJhFh4iSGuGd_s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The after-school event began with a welcome in the gymnasium before families divided into primary and intermediate groups for author read-alouds. Participants then rotated through stations including a campfire sing-along, poetry caf\u00e9, literacy games, quiet reading corner and story workshop. At the end, the group came back together in the gym for family trivia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBooks can take you on such adventures,\u201d Rowledge-Toscani said. \u201cHopefully we have students that will be authors, they will be readers for their whole [lives].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important for people to read, said Sabrina Moes, who attended the event with her daughter Abagail, a Grade 2 student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKids just need to be excited about books,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re actually trying to write a book and this, I figured, would just get her more excited and to read.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book they\u2019re writing, Abagail added, is \u201cabout a unicorn, a dragon, and a fox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reading is also useful, according to Addison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just really helps me with spelling,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families gathered around a glowing faux campfire in a classroom at Fairview Elementary, as music filled the air. \u201cWe were like, singing rhyming songs with Dr. Saul,\u201d said Grade 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementary.sd42.ca\/fairview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}