A PLAY to LEARN activity
Reading and storytelling with babies and children promotes brain development and imagination, develops language and emotions, and strengthens relationships. Read and listen to stories often as a family!
 The Color Monster |  The Day the Crayons Quit |
 Bear Sees Colors |  Mouse Paint |
 Monsters Love Colors |  The Rainbow Fish |
Liliana Tommasini writes children’s books that empower children to explore creatively and learn to ask for help when needed. Liliana will be TLE’s visiting author at Souvenir Elementary’s Storytime event as part of TLE’s Storytime project! We will hold a draw of Storytime participants and a few lucky winners will get a copy of Liliana’s Octavia Can Do It!
who loves to bake cookies with her Mama. Mixing flour, butter and eggs is one of her favourite things to do. Today, Octavia wants to do things differently.
When Mama steps out of the kitchen, Octavia takes over with an “I can do it” attitude. But as flour and cocoa cover the walls, cabinets, and countertops, she starts to question herself.
Will her cookies turn out as good as Mama’s cookies?
Octavia Can Do It! is the humorous story of a young girl as she discovers that even the most independent people need a little help sometimes.
Explore Octavia’s story as a family! Print off one (or all!) of Octavia’s free children’s colouring pages and have fun colouring together.
Download The Octavia Can Do It! Interactive Worksheets as a tool to help your little ones engage in the story by clicking on the link below!
This rich activity guide is exclusive for newsletter subscribers and perfect for care-givers, parents, and teachers who want to help children creatively explore.
A PLAY to LEARN activity
Songs and stories will make learning about the world around us fun and exciting for children!
Movement and play is a great way to promote learning. Let’s move and play together!
~ TLE’s Move Into Literacy Storytime and Singalong events with Enza & Shawny!
Sing and move to Shawny’s song “It’s So Sunny“!
Listen to a story about spring:
A Move into Literacy Activity funded by PACTE projects:
We’re BACK in 2023! Join the Sunday Gummy Bear Family Reading Club for stories, songs, craft time and parent resources to engage you and your child with fun interactive stories.
You can register for all Sunday sessions or just pick one or two. You will receive a Zoom link for the session/s after you register. FREE for all families!
Be sure to register early to save a spot and to get a Gummy Bear activity package delivered to your home. Check back soon for the list of featured books and weekly activities.
Gummy Bear Reading dates:
There are three simple ways to share books throughout the year!
1. Give a Book to a Friend or Relative.
Celebrate the love of reading by giving someone a new, used or borrowed book. Books make GREAT gifts!
2. Leave a Book in a Waiting Room or Lobby.
Choose a waiting room where people are stuck waiting and there are few to no good books available. Purchase a good book, and deposit your book covertly or overtly in your waiting room of choice. The goal here is to spread the love of reading to people and kids especially, so choose a fun book.
3. Donate a Book.
Wrap up a box of children’s books that your kids have outgrown and get them in the hands of children who could really use a book or two. Donate your books to your local literacy council, second hand store, library, children’s hospital, or shelter.
How Reading Helps Children by tleliteracy
Reading and storytelling with babies and children promotes brain development and imagination, develops language and emotions, and strengthens relationships. Here are some stories related to the theme of the story I’m Sticking with You.
| Chester’s Way | Capybara is Friends With Everyone | Be Kind |
| Stick and Stone Best Friends Forever | The Rainbow Fish | Friends – Early Reader |
It looks like an ordinary box of ordinary yarn.
But it turns out it isn’t.Story by Mac Barnett
Illustrated by Jon Klassen
Bear meets sandwich, adventure ensues. . . . An irresistible treat of a story!
Story by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and buckets of tacos. Unfortunately, where there are tacos, there is also salsa. And if a dragon accidentally eats spicy salsa . . . oh, boy. You’re in red-hot trouble.
Story by Adam Rubin
Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri
All the Colors of the Rainbow
