Literacy Week in the Early Years
Literacy Week is organised with a strong belief in fostering the learning community with the joy of reading, promoting creativity, expanding vocabulary and giving wings to the imagination.
Young children get to experience and explore new worlds that exist between the covers of books. The week-long event was divided into various different experiences for the students to make it a memorable event and ‘Get them to Keep Reading”.
Literacy Week Whole School Assembly – The Literacy Week is a Whole School Event and involves the participation of students, staff and parents across all the three programmes (PYP, MYP & DP) at EIS. In order to introduce and open the event to the Early Years students, an assembly was planned and hosted by the STUCO members to give the community an insight into the importance of reading and to the exciting week ahead.
Book Buffet – The Book Buffet was an interesting start to the Literacy Week. Each grade had a scrumptious spread of stories by a famous Author and students could select the story read aloud they would like to listen to.
Marvellous Story Tellers- Our teachers from the PYP turned into Marvellous Storytellers as they visited the Early Years classes and conducted puppet shows and story narrations for our young literary enthusiasts
Book Parade/Character parade – The most awaited event of Literacy Week is the Book Parade/Character Parade. Students in the Early years dressed as their favourite characters, they enthusiastically dressed as vampires, wizards, princesses, animals to the likes of Harry Potter, Red Riding Hood and Gingerbread Man and were delighted to share snippets of their favourite stories, characters and even the author.
Multilingual Stories day – Celebrating Multilingual Stories Day was the highlight of Literacy Week. Students in the Early years participated in story read aloud in their mother tongue as well as in regional languages by the teachers in our EIS family. Thus celebrating intercultural learning
Specialist Integration – When it comes to literacy it’s not only about reading through books which was clearly evident, when specialist teachers planned various fun ways of sharing stories through music, dance, art and PE and some were lucky enough to get a virtual trip to the EIS Reading Hub -the school library.
An exciting week with the company of books, characters, plots, settings, authors and storytellers only reminded us that a book can open the doors to a beautiful world and we pledge to ‘Keep reading’ cause each book is going to be a good book!!
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