{"id":70535,"date":"2016-07-02T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70535"},"modified":"2016-07-02T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T15:13:37","slug":"1000-books-before-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=70535","title":{"rendered":"1,000 Books Before Kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Canastota Public Library is joining hundreds of other libraries who offer the\u00a0\u201c1000 Books Before Kindergarten\u201d Challenge! As parents, we all want to see our children\u00a0succeed. A great way to do that is to read to your child. Studies have shown that reading to\u00a0children activates the parts of a preschooler\u2019s brain that helps them with mental imagery\u00a0and understanding narrative\u2014both of which are key for the development of language and\u00a0literacy.<\/p>\n

The concept is simple and the rewards of this challenge are priceless! Read a book\u00a0(any book) to your newborn, infant or toddler. The goal is to read 1,000 books together\u00a0before your little one begins kindergarten. If you read just one book a night to your child,\u00a0at the end of the year, you will have read 365 books. That is 730 books read in two years\u00a0and 1,095 books read in three years. Since children generally begin kindergarten at age 5,\u00a0there is plenty of time to meet this challenge. Since this challenge is self-paced, you decided\u00a0how often you will read together and what books you will read.<\/p>\n

Reading together with your child helps to develop important pre-reading skills that\u00a0provide a solid reading foundation which is a key to school and learning success. By\u00a0reading together, you can create great memories for both of you as well as facilitating a\u00a0great opportunity to bond in another way with your child. If you have more than one child\u00a0who hasn\u2019t entered kindergarten, consider reading as a family to meet the challenge!<\/p>\n

All those who attend the Canastota Library\u2019s Baby & Me Lapsit program and\u00a0Storytime sessions will be able to pick up registration\/ enrollment kits during the first week\u00a0of the Summer Reading Program. Anyone else who is interested in the program can pick\u00a0up their registration\/enrollment kits at the Circulation Desk of the Library. The kits offer\u00a0instructions, a reading log, book suggestions as well as tips for reading to your child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Canastota Public Library is joining hundreds of other libraries who offer the\u00a0\u201c1000 Books Before Kindergarten\u201d Challenge! As parents, we all want to see our children\u00a0succeed. A great way to do that is to read to your child. Studies have shown that reading to\u00a0children activates the parts of a preschooler\u2019s brain that helps them with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-ilF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Totten-new.jpg?fit=403%2C303&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}