Prepare children from birth for reading and writing

Early Words is passionate about supporting families and communities with early literacy. Children do not wait until school to learn literacy skills. Literacy begins at birth. Give children a stronger, confident start at school.

The Early Words website includes everyday activities and information. Early Words also a range of tip sheets in a number of different community languages.


Early Words also have a Youtube Channel
( http://www.youtube.com/user/WatchEarlyWords ) which focuses on early literacy.

National Simultaneous Storytime @ Narellan Library

Tomorrow 170,000 Australian children will read the same book at the same time.

It’s fun, it’s feathery and at 11am tomorrow, Wednesday, May 25, it will have at least 170,548 children spellbound. It’s "Feathers for Phoebe" by Rod Clement, this year’s book selection for National Simultaneous Storytime.

Narellan Library will be holding National Simultaneous Storytime at 11am during our regular storytime session.

A feature event in the Australian Library and Information Week (ALIA) calendar, National Simultaneous Storytime is Australia’s biggest single storytelling event. It is celebrated in schools, public libraries, kindergartens, childcare centres and bookshops. This year, 1,102 simultaneous readings will take part across the nation, including, for the first time, children with vision and hearing impairments, and children in detention centres.

You can now download an animated, fully-voiced podcast of “Feathers for Phoebe” in different media formats for display on Interactive White Boards and Data Projectors.


TIP: right click on the link and select ‘Save Link As / Save Download As’


Download the Podcast in MP4 Video (QuickTime/M4V format – 102MB)
( http://www.alia.org.au/storytime/resources/NSS2011Podcast.m4v )

Download the Podcast in AVI / DivX (Windows / AVI format - 89MB)
( http://www.alia.org.au/storytime/resources/NSS2011Podcast.avi )

Watch the Podcast on YouTube
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlPDb2H6Ppo )

Camden Play Day - 22nd May 2011

To help celebrate Families Week, Camden Council in partnership with local children's services will be holding a Camden Play Day at Kirkham Oval on Sunday 22nd May 2011.

Entry to the event is FREE and there will be lots of FREE activities for children and their families.

For more details refer to the attached brochure.

Family Week Celebrations - May 15 to 21, 2011

Management and staff of YMCA would like to invite you and your family to attend the Families Week Celebrations held at Mount Annan Leisure Centre during May 15 to 21.

More more details refer to the attached brochure.

Music for Little Ones - Tom Harding

Join us at Camden Library on Saturday 14th May, 10.30am for Music for Little Ones presented by Tom Harding.

'Music for Little Ones' is an exciting hands on session exploring the skills needed by the muso’s of tomorrow! Drumming generates lots of fun with embedded mathematics, listening skills,aural interpretaion and musical triggers. With body percussion and fun movements to both classical and original children’s songs,each child gets to sing, move and drum.

The FREE performance is suited for children aged 2 to 6 years.

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL!

Contact Camden Library on 4654 7951 for more details.