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Hooray for Unplug and Play! How much screen time are you accumulating in a day? Work based screen time can’t always be reduced, but how many hours are being logged during home time? How about your children? As handy as those little devices are, or as entertaining as it is to binge watch your favourite show on Netflix, we need to be cognizant that we are not always present in our day-to-day lives. It’s easy to slip into zombie mode RSOE - fr ear jan 25 2012.indd 1 when hypnotized by the blue light of the screen. Why not unplug and play? From January 25 to 29, a number of groups are offering free activities throughout the week such as Family Floorball, Creative Cooking, Ice Tower Pool Party, Paper Bead Jewelry, Lego Building, Hot Wheels, Family Board Game Night, Science Brittany Benoit takes Literacy Fun, Seniors Tea and time to unplug at the skating. So much to choose North Kamloops Library. from! The Interior Savings Unplug and Play School Challenge are encouraging more than 5000 young students to reduce their The big-top circus themed pm. The event will include: recreational screen-time. Why ABC Family Literacy Day is story song yoga, musical pernot host a digital detox for the set for January 23, hosted by formances, storytelling, puppet entire household? It’s entirely Kamloops Early Language and theatre, live theatre, interactoo difficult for children to Literacy Initiative (KELLI) at tive stations, crafts, face paintunplug when adults are still the Henry Grube Education ing and gymnastics. Each child plugged in! Centre from 9:00 am to 12:30 will receive a new-to-them
book courtesy of the 7th annual Heap the Honda Children’s Book Drive. Cara Graden, City of Kamloops Arts, Culture and Heritage coordinator, says this long-standing partnership with Honda has been a great success. “Over the past six years, more than 60,000 children’s books have been donated to Heap the Honda”. The books are collected, sorted, cleaned and stickered by volunteers and are distributed to the 22 Bright Red Bookshelves at various locations in Kamloops throughout the year. Fiona Clare, Literacy Outreach coordinator believes literacy awareness is more important than ever. “We live in an information world. Everyday we are surrounded with print that we have to make sense of in order to be successful in school, in our work, in our world. We need to read well. And we need to read and be read to, to become readers”. How do we ensure that our children are well read? Fiona recommends a bedtime story. “It is the best way to put your child to bed. It helps them go to sleep too... We need to help our children catch a love of reading so they will become lifetime readers, reading for information but - continued on page 2
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