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Family and Community Engagement is essential. It is important to involve the entire school in creating an environment that supports parents. We

Tons of activities for literacy night with a GLOW theme! These glow-in-the-dark literacy night activities will be a huge hit with students and families!

Candy Land Game Night! This was the theme of our recent Family Literacy Night. I think Game Night has been one of my favorite themes that we have done! The Candy Land colors were great

Home read alouds are important for a child's development, but it can be challenging. A free toolkit of reading strategies for parents will help guide them!

How do I know it's back to school time? My plants are dead. All of my plants that I grew so lovingly in the spring, watered all ...

Family Literacy Nights are so much fun! The secret to having successful family nights for us is to have lots of games, good activities, free food, and lots of fun! This year our theme

On Thursday May 5th, our school hosted our First Annual Family Math Night! Moraine Hills Public School in York Region District School Board Family Math Night is "a fun, shared experience that promotes family involvement with math, build strong family-school partnerships, create a sense of community, and connect family engagement to student learning" (Family Math Night, 2016). Our school had a team of educators from each division come together to plan and co-facilitate this wonderful learning…

Night for Family Literacy brings in the excitement children feel about football in the fall. This event has been very popular with our school. We includes a tailgate dinner, pickup football games, and literacy fun by the campfire.

Tips and ideas for planning a successful literacy night for families that will be remembered.