🌱👶 👣 A nature walk is a great way for babies to engage their senses. 🌳🐦 Exploring nature through calm, multisensory experiences helps baby learn to love and appreciate nature. 👉Find ideas for a nature walk with babies: decoda.ca/resource/learn… #FamilyLiteracyWeek #Babies

📌 Download our FREE 2025 #FamilyLiteracyWeek resources with the 🌱 #LearnToBeGreenTogether theme at: decoda.ca/resource/learn… #FLW2025

Great #FamilyLiteracyWeek #preschooler activity! 🌱👩‍🌾 Planting seeds and nurturing them into plants helps children practice measuring, estimating and fine motor skills while learning how to care for the planet. 👉 Learn how to make ‘grass heads’ at: decoda.ca/resource/learn…

❤️ Hear from newcomer families in #BC who say IPALS has helped them overcome barriers, understand play-based learning, helped them prepare their children for school and empowered them for the future: decoda.ca/ipals-empoweri… #SaveIPALS #FamilyLiteracy #FamilyLiteracyWeek2025

❤️Huge thanks to the RBC employee volunteers who helped assemble literacy kits for immigrant and refugee families. 🥰 Decoda will also receive a $1,500 grant from the #RBC Communities Together Fund to support our #SaveIPALS Campaign. 👉 Learn more at: decoda.ca/saveipals/

👩‍🌾 #Gardening can help children with #literacy. They practice numeracy through measuring and estimating, follow instructions for planting and taking care of plants. 🌱 👉 Make an indoor vegetable garden with these instructions at: decoda.ca/resource/learn… #FamilyLiteracyWeek

✨📚 January 30 is #ReadYourWorldDay to raise awareness about children’s books that celebrate #diversity and #inclusion, and to get books into readers' hands. 🎁📚 Find out how to win one of 12 book bundles at: readyourworld.org/2025-read-your… #MulticulturalBooks ReadYourWorld

✂ 👕 Here's a great "reuse" project to try this weekend for older school-aged children! 👉 Download instructions at: decoda.ca/wp-content/upl… #LearnToBeGreenTogether #GreenCrafts #NoSewTShirtBag #Reuse #FLW2025 #FamilyLiteracyWeek #FamilyLiteracy

👋 Join us to discuss the latest results of the #PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies). How can we use them to strengthen our argument for accessibility to #literacy education and support for our work? 👉Register at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

📚🌐 🌱🌳 Learn about five resources available through the #DecodaLibrary and communities, that focus on nature and sustainability, along with fun, hands-on activities designed to bring these themes to life: decoda.ca/family-literac… #FamilyLiteracyWeek2025 #LearnToBeGreenTogether

The February issue of Westcoast Reader is out!

🤝 It's #BlackHistoryMonth! The 2025 theme for Black History Month is: “Black Legacy and Leadership: Celebrating Canadian History and Uplifting Future Generations.” 👉 Learn more and find resources at: canada.ca/en/canadian-he… #BHM2025 #Canada

Neighbourhood houses that provide support to immigrants and other newcomers are feeling the impact of the federal government's new immigration targets. globalnews.ca/video/10988957… We're working to #SaveIPALS to support immigrant/refugee children’s early literacy development.

🌐 We've gathered the #news stories about recent federal government funding cuts to a number of immigrant support services, including Decoda’s Immigrant Parents as Literacy Supporters (IPALS) program, at: linktr.ee/decoda.ca - under the Save IPALS tab. #SaveIPALS

📖🗣 World Read Aloud Day® (WRAD) celebrates the power of reading aloud to create community and amplify new stories, and to advocate for literacy as a foundational human right. 👉 Visit LitWorld activity hub at: litworld.org/worldreadaloud… #WRAD2025 #WorldReadAloudDay

🎉🎁 Congratulations to Madame Rexin’s Grade K-3 Class at W.E. Graham Community School in Slocan, BC! 🖍 They won the Family Literacy Week 2025 Colouring Contest draw for a class prize - a $100 Indigo gift card! 🥰 Thank you to everyone who participated! #FamilyLiteracyWeek

Support from other levels of government is key to saving Immigrant Parents as Literacy Supporters (IPALS) programs. 📨 You can send a letter to your MLA or MP using our letter template at: decoda.ca/wp-content/upl… 👉 To learn more, visit: decoda.ca/saveIPALS #SaveIPALS

❤ Read some of the heartfelt messages of support for IPALS from program participants and facilitators in BC: decoda.ca/saveIPALS 😔Without this vital program, hundreds of families will lose access to crucial resources that make a lasting difference in their lives. #SaveIPALS

🎁 📚🖍♻ Enter the colouring #contest draw by Feb. 2 for a chance to win this Family Literacy Gift Pack! ✨ ⤵ Download the colouring contest poster at: decoda.ca/wp-content/upl… 👉 Learn more at: decoda.ca/get-involved/f… #FLW2025 #FamilyLiteracyWeek

We're leaving X. 🌐 Join us on Bluesky, a more thoughtful online space, where you can connect with causes and people who matter to you, while maintaining more control and transparency over your digital life: bsky.app/profile/decoda… #NewOnBlueSky #DecodaLiteracy #GoodbyeX