Mother Language Story Telling during Book Week

So many books, so many languages...story time in mother languages. 

Following another successful Mother Language Day, we'd like to establish a tradition of parents reading stories to native/fluent speakers in the Junior School during Book Week.

We are looking for parent volunteers to share stories in mother languages. If you're interested, please bring your children's favourite picture book and novel to read to children in Grades 2-5 in the Primary Library at lunch time. This would be a half hour commitment on a day of your choice - 25 February–1 March, 11.45am-12.15pm.

Please click here to sign up. For more information, contact Sharon Tymms.

Mother Language Day

February 21 is the 12th annual International Mother Language Day. The UN began celebrating this day to raise awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to increase multilingualism.

As this United Nations link explains, the February 21^st date honors the anniversary of a 1952 attack on students in Dhaka who were “demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national languages.”

Check out these websites for resources:

The LingEducator Blog- activity ideas

Tumble Books- ebooks in Spanish, French, and Chinese

Book Flix- ebooks in Spanish

International Children's Digital Library- ebook collection includes over 4500 books in 61 languages.