[LM_NET] Dia de los Ninos/Jovenes, Day of the Child/Youth: April 30th

[Alma McDermott <alma.mcdermott@YAHOO.COM>]

Please excuse cross postings, as I also sent this to the AASL and YALSA list serves.

Dia de los Ninos/Jovenes, Day of the Child/Youth is a celebration of literacy which 
has been celebrated in public libraries across the nation for the past 14 years as 
well as in a handful of schools.

As a new school librarian
and co-chair of REFORMA's Children & Young Adult Services
Committee (CAYASC), this will be my first year celebrating Dia in my
middle school. I feel since school librarians are always celebrating
literacy, Dia is a natural outgrowth of the work we do. The members
of my committee and I would like to know if you are planning to
celebrate Dia this coming April 30th. If so, please send me an e-mail
off list and let me know if you're in an elementary, middle or high school library. 

If you're in a middle or high school, this is a wonderful opportunity to have your 
older students be role models for literacy to younger students. They can pair up 
with an elementary school in a celebration of literacy, collect books for 
distribution, write a poem and perform it, etc.

Below is an e-mail that Pat Mora, founder of Dia, has written about this exciting 
event. I look forward to hearing from you
 if you are planning to celebrate Dia in your school.

Thank you,
Alma

Alma Ramos-McDermott

Library Media Specialist

Pollard Middle School

Needham, MA

ALA Spectrum Scholar 2006

alma.mcdermott@yahoo.com

http://www.yourschoollibrary.wordpress.com

Chair YALSA Diversity Campaign Task Force 

Co-Chair REFORMA CAYASC Committee 

REFORMA liaision to YALSA



















Please join us for DÍAPALOOZA, a month-long, virtual
celebration of El día de los niños, El día de los libros/Children’s Day, Book
Day, on Pat Mora’s Bookjoy blog (http://www.sharebookjoy.blogspot.com/.)
 Every day during April, the post(s) will celebrate and support Día’s
main goal of daily linking all children to books, languages and cultures.  

 

We’re inviting your participation and hope you’ll
send us visuals—videos, photos, posters,
children’s art work; as well as stories, interviews, poetry, anecdotes, 
testimonials,
interesting and surprising Día facts, quotes from kids, families, teachers and
librarians; poems sayings and proverbs about reading and literacy; special or
funny Bookjoy moments.  Send us cool
Día ideas big and small as well as best practices.  Your submissions can be 
humorous and fun or serious; inside
or outside the box.  Try and keep your submission to less than 200
words.  Check in for news of
contests and give-aways.

 

When we need it: March 15 is our deadline
     though we welcome your submission now.The format: Short text can be in an
     email; longer text in a Word doc. Send photos as a jpeg; web resolution is
     okay. Submit artwork as a pdf or jpeg.Where to send it: webcontact@patmora.com

 

If you don’t feel you can contribute a post, please stop by
Bookjoy in April for fun and inspiration; read the posts and comment.

 

Please forward to friends and colleagues. Feel free to post
on Facebook or Twitter.

 

For more
information on El día de los niños, El día de los libros/Children’s Day, Book
Day,  go to http://www.patmora.com/dia.htm

 

 








      

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