If you have a child, birth to five, celebrate and strengthen your role as your child’s first and best teacher! Join a supportive community of families! Learn how to develop your child’s vital early literacy skills so they will enter school ready to read! Receive free books and prizes each week! A cash incentive will be given for exceptional attendance. The Hudson Area Library’s 5-week Parent Child Academy will empower parents as the first and most important teachers in their children’s lives. The Academy will provide a friendly environment in which to learn about using activities to build children’s literacy in their daily home lives. These activities, and the resources provided by the Academy, will help prepare children to learn to read and write when they enter Kindergarten. This is our second series of 5 workshops and all are welcome including parents who have already attended. The Parent Child Academy will be Saturdays, 10:30am – 1pm, March 4, 11, 18, 25 and April 1 at the Hudson Area Library, 51 North 5th Street, Hudson, NY. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided. Children’s activities, including a Story and Craft Hour, by our Chidlren’s Librarian and AmeriCorps workers for ages 2+ will available in the library while parents attend a workshop and discussion session. For further information and to sign up email brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org or call 518-828-1792 x101 or stop by the Hudson Area Library.
Date and Time
Saturday Mar 4, 2017 Saturday Apr 1, 2017
March 4, 11, 18, 25, April 1/10:30am - 1pm
Location
Hudson Area Library 51 North 5th Street Hudson, NY 12534
Fees/Admission
Free and open to the public.
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Contact Information
Brenda Shufelt
Program Director
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