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Why Your Child Should Read 

for 20 minutes Every Day

“Why can’t I skip my 20 minutes of reading tonight?”

Let’s figure it out – mathematically!

Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;

Student B reads only 4 minutes a night… or not at all!

Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.

Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week = 100 minutes/week.

Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes/week.

Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.

Student A reads 400 minutes a month.

Student B reads 80 minutes a month.

Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year.

Student A reads 3600 minutes in a school year.

Student B reads 720 minutes in a school year.

Student A practices reading the equivalent of 10 whole school days a year.

Student B gets the equivalent of 2 school days of reading practice.

By the end of 6^th grade, if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits,

• Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days.
• Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.

Some questions to ponder:

Which student would you expect to read better?  Which student would you expect to know more?

Which student would you expect to write better?  Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?  Which student would you expect to be more successful in school… and in life?

Why read to your child 30 minutes a day?

*If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is five years old, he or she has been fed roughly 900 hours of brain food!

*Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week, and the child’s hungry mind loses 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales and stories.

*A kindergarten student who has not been read aloud to could enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition.  No teacher, no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental nourishment.

PLEASE READ TO YOUR CHILD AND HAVE YOUR CHILD READ TO YOU TODAY

Recommend a good book or series that you have read lately.

Tales From Our Family Day

In British Columbia, Family Day was last Monday, February 9th. 
For many others, Family Day is celebrated today, February 16th.

Family Day is a time to stop and spend time with your loved ones. It is great to take a break from the everyday routines and share in special activities that we sometimes don't have the time for, such as: playing games, watching movies, tobogganing, skiing, going for walks, and so much more.

Family can mean different things to many people. Family isn't always blood relatives. It can be the people in your life, who share their life with you; the ones who would do anything to see you smile and love you no matter what...

What does family mean to you and your loved ones?

Share something special that you and your family have done to celebrate this occasion. 

Learning Through Life Experiences

As we go through life, we come across a variety of experiences; daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and so forth. With these experiences, we have a number of opportunities to learn something new. We can stop and reflect on what happened during the experience, what we have learned, how it has changed our life, and what we can do with this knowledge to make future decisions.

Share an experience that has some impact on your life. 

An experience that you stopped and reflected on, or had an "Ahha" moment because of.

Activate Your Mathematical Mind

Here is a fun little Math problem...

Our goal for our students is to engage in critical thinking. There are essential compontents we encourage students to be touching on, to develop higher level of thinking: analyzing, connecting, problem solving, reasoning, visualizing, applying, and communicating.

Share your thoughts on this problem. 

Solve it and explain your thinking to us.