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Family Literacy Day 2022

Happy Family Literacy Day!

Each year we celebrate Family Literacy Day on January 27th, as a time to raise awareness about the importance engaging in literacy-related activities as a family. Early literacy is learning about sounds, words and language, through every day, fun activities like
SINGING, RHYMING AND STORYTELLING!

Robin is a member of our National Council, and she has a lovely video introducing Family Literacy Day, and how YOU can create a literacy-rich environment for your family.

Happy singing, rhyming and storytelling!

New Year, New 2022 Membership!

The National Council of Parent-Child Mother Goose Program® welcomes you to a new year of building relationships through the power and the pleasure of songs, rhymes, and oral stories. We have had a wonderfully successful year spreading across Canada and around the world, helping thousands of families to discover the power and pleasure of rhymes, songs, and stories!

Please help us to support one another by purchasing a 2022 membership in the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program®. For only 60.00$ per year you ensure that:

  • We maintain this website, https://nationalpcmgp.ca/, which includes information on training, research on the effectiveness of P-CMGP and the location of our programs to promote your own programs and to help the public find you.
  • We issue quarterly newsletters to members describing how various agencies are implementing PCMGP and to offer new rhymes and stories that you can introduce into your sessions.
  • We support teachers-in-training by appraising their activities and issuing Certificates that confirm their proficiency implementing our curriculum.
  • We maintain our email service [email protected]  so that our administrator is on hand to answer any questions you may have about the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program®.
  • You have access to use of the trademarked logo in your own publications, and permission to photocopy newsletters, songs, rhymes to share with your own program facilitators.

Please complete the Membership and Donation Form, and return to [email protected].

Payment can be made, 

The National Council wishes to extend a heartfelt thank you for your support. Happy singing, rhyming and storytelling!

Cheer to the New Year!

Welcome 2022 with this New Year song!

Cheer the Year 
(Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)

Cheer, cheer, cheer the year;
A new one’s just begun.
Celebrate with all your friends,
Let’s go have some fun!
Clap, clap, clap your hands,
A brand new year is here.
Learning, laughing, singing, clapping,
Through another year.

This song, along with other New Year songs can be found at:
https://theearlychildhoodacademy.com/new-year-songs-and-fingerplays/