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A community program to bring youth & elders together for the mutually beneficial purpose of improved literacy & companionship. This program will bring literacy into community focus in a huge way. There are so many ways this could expand & it would be great to see adult literacy assisted as well. How wonderful would it be to have the children teaching adults to read.

After Book Week we are getting ready for International Literacy Day Sept 8th - THE SKY'S THE LIMIT!

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Invitations extended to;

The Eurobodalla Shire Mayor,  our local member of parliament,  Principals of all local primary &
high schools,  Secretaries of all local schools’ Parent
& Friends Associations,  Directors of all local nursing homes
& Home Care groups,  The Secretaries of our local;

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Aboriginal Land Councils & Elders Groups, Country Women's Association, Moruya
District Hospital, Chamber of Commerce, Apex, Rotary & Sporting Clubs, Directors of the local Youth &
Women’s Refuge,  Priests & Ministers all local
Churches.

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Invitations extended to;

The Eurobodalla Shire Mayor,  our local member of parliament,  Principals of all local primary &
high schools,  Secretaries of all local schools’ Parent
& Friends Associations,  Directors of all local nursing homes
& Home Care groups,  The Secretaries of our local;

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Aboriginal Land Councils & Elders Groups, Country Women's Association, Moruya
District Hospital, Chamber of Commerce, Apex, Rotary & Sporting Clubs, Directors of the local Youth &
Women’s Refuge,  Priests & Ministers all local
Churches.

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The Library will administer the records for children's reading progress with this user friendly reporting card

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The Library will administer the records for children's reading progress with this user friendly reporting card

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Y.E.P. Opening Night Friday 

5pm to 7pm 

Eurobodalla Shire Library

Vulcan St, Moruya



Y.E.P. Launch

&

Book Week 2016 Theme:
 Australia! Story Country 

20-26th August 

The library will provide prizes from the 2016 short-listed books of
the Children’s Book Council of Australia

The
library will also provide light refreshments in line with this year’s book week
theme

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Y.E.P. Opening Night Friday 

5pm to 7pm 

Eurobodalla Shire Library

Vulcan St, Moruya



Y.E.P. Launch

&

Book Week 2016 Theme:
 Australia! Story Country 

20-26th August 

The library will provide prizes from the 2016 short-listed books of
the Children’s Book Council of Australia

The
library will also provide light refreshments in line with this year’s book week
theme

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The young person needs to own their own reading.

Some points to assist with this are;

•  It is very important to allow the reader to choose their own book. If their first decision isn’t all they expected it to be,   please allow them to exchange and start another book. If they are having too much   trouble, please look for assistance   from your librarian.

•The reader & listener may have turns at reading and is the decision of the young person. If the young person is listening, please have them follow the words as you read.

•  Always let them hold the book and try very hard not to touch the book or point to words.

•  If the reader makes a mistake, and it has no real bearing on the meaning of the text, just let it pass. Usually, they will come   across the word again and realise their mistake having had the word appear in two   or three different contexts.

•  If a mistake drastically alters the meaning of the text, you may draw attention to it, not by pointing to the word but   perhaps by asking them to break it down into syllables, sound it or ask if the word reminds them of any other words.

•  If your reader really wants your help and specifically asks you to tell them the pronunciation, please do so.

•  Sometimes your young person will read and read without knowing anything about the story. At least once or twice and at   appropriate points, please stop and have a little chat about the progression of the story.

•  If it is clear no meaning is being gained from the reading, please liaise with your librarian at the end of the session for further instructions to assist you help your reader to improve.

•  At the end of the session, please date and complete the reader’s progress card.

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THE WINNERS!       Children's Book Council Australia - Book of the Year PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR

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THE WINNERS!       Children's Book Council Australia - Book of the Year PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR

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A timeless story that emerges into a contemporary setting of war & flight for life.

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THE WINNERS!       Children's Book Council Australia - Book of the Year EARLY CHILDHOOD

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THE WINNERS!       Children's Book Council Australia - Book of the Year EARLY CHILDHOOD

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Tells a story about a little boy & Mr Huff, his huffy-mood shadow.

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THE WINNERS!       Chidren's Book Council Australia - Book of the Year for YOUNGER READERS

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THE WINNERS!       Chidren's Book Council Australia - Book of the Year for YOUNGER READERS

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Soon is book 5 in a series & tells the story of a Jewish boy's survival in Nazi occupied Poland.

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Children's Book Council of Australia - Book of the Year for OLDER READERS. About a teenage Vietnamese scholarship student trying to fit in to an Australian way of life.

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This form is designed to figure-out what book and what character the young kids will be reading and acting out. This form will go out with Kirsty's questionnaire as her for form will also help them understand which book they prefer to read.

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For this project, I believe that it is vital to provide some form of branding or visual representation for all involved. The addition of a logo allows for a visual to be put to the program name, allowing our CAP to be more readily recognised. I have found a website (graphicsprings.com) where I can generate a rough idea for the logo for the group.  In saying this, I will need to perhaps look into some sort of copyright research for our brand and logo. I would also intend to download the logo into a higher resolution and quality for larger promotional imagery.

https://www.graphicsprings.com/start-your-logo

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My contribution to the project will be designing visual content to aid in the promotion of the event. This will be done in collaboration with the other artist in our group where we will work together to develop promotional imagery designed to encourage and motivate both the elderly and youth groups to get involved in our program.

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Y.E.P!  Youth Elders Project

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Venue for Project:  Eurobodalla Shire Library at Moruya Branch, Vulcan St, Moruya.

Age Target for Youth:  6 years - 18 years

Date for Launch:  Book Week 2016,  Saturday 20 August - Friday 26 August 2016

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I've simply added this link for my own homework. It shows a number of successful youth and elderly programs that share our own group's ideal outcomes and the benefits, both social and educational, that can be produced from Y.E.P

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Young and old working together

When the old are not allowed to tell their story, the young grow up without history. When the young are not listened to, we lose unique ideas and have no future.

Gunhild Hagestad, Ph.D., 1999 UN Year of the Older Persons' keynote address

By working together, young people and older adults bring tremendous benefits to their communities. At the same time, young and old gain an appreciation for one another. From arts programs to community gardens, there are many ways that different generations can come together as a team.

Funders make it possible for the young and old to work together in programs like these:

Habitat Intergenerational Program in Belmont, MA, brings together older adults and youth to provide environmental community services, including: removing invasive species, helping to rejuvenate a pond, restoring walking trails, and using native plants to create wildlife habitat areas at schools.

Dialogues Across the Ages, a program of the Heyman Interages Center, Jewish Council for the Aging®, offers a place where 30 students and 10 older adults meet weekly for two months to discuss current events andsocial and political issues. In addition to providing a forum for different generations to share and listen, the program also strives to help eradicate negative stereotypes older adults and youth may hold regarding one other. The Anthony and Anna L. Carozza Foundation gave $2,000 and the Dimick Foundation gave $3,000 to support this program.

Bessie's Hope Youth and Elders Program in Denver, CO, matches at-risk youth with nursing home and assisted living residents. In this mutually beneficial program, the youth gain self-esteem, respect for others, life skills and academic skills, and the older adults receive companionship, intellectual stimulation, and the chance to feel useful. Activities focus on volunteers participating with their grandpartners. The Louis and Harold Price Foundation gave $5,000 to support this program. Both generations benefit and many of the one-on-one teen-senior relationships have lasted for many years.

Danceworks, Inc., in Milwaukee, WI, runs the Intergenerational Multi Art Project (IMAP), which partners with programs serving older adults such as the Milwaukee Catholic Home, United Community Center's Latino Geriatric Center, and area schools. Students meet weekly with older adults at senior centers and in their schools to create art. The Helen Bader Foundation gave a two-year, $50,000 grant to support this program. Learn more about Arts & Culture and aging. [sublink to Arts & Culture section.

For 10 weeks, older adults and high school students in San Antonio, TX, worked with professional writers on a Life Letters Project. Fourteen high school students met with older adults in a senior center for two hours each week and through letter writing, the young and old shared stories about their lives. The result was a published collection of writings, in a series of letters written to friends, family, and community. A $15,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and a $5,000 grant from the Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation helped support this project.

National initiatives bring generations together in diverse communities

Several national efforts engage communities in intergenerational work. Many of these initiatives invite smaller funders to leverage their dollars to these innovative programs.

AGE to age bringing generations together is an initiative linking youth with older adults to build friendships and work together toward community improvement in 10 rural northeastern Minnesota communities, including three Indian Reservations. Part of the Community Experience Partnership and Communities for All Ages initiative, AGE to age has merged the energies of 2,400 young people ages 5 to 18; 1,200 adults 55+; and 1,350 people who fall somewhere in between. Each of the participating sites is undertaking locally-driven projects that address community needs. Common themes include arts and culture, health and wellness, teaching and mentoring, volunteering, gardening, Native American crafts, and broad community-building events such as barbeques and game nights. For example, Moose Lake's HUGs (Helping Unite Generations) is focused on increasing older adults' engagement in the afterschool KIDS PLUS program, as well as creating social and recreational opportunities and community beautification projects. Retired volunteers teach afterschool classes, such as building cribbage boards and playing cribbage, making fleece blankets, and cooking, to young people.

In addition to funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Northland Foundation has helped fund this initiative and facilitated a series of planning meetings at each community site to help residents organize this multigenerational effort. Smaller foundations can leverage their resources to partner with larger community initiatives. For example, the Blandin Foundation awarded a three-year grant of $45,000 to support AGE to age.

This exciting initiative enables elders, adults, and youth to explore
how their generations are alike and how they are different.
The program is designed to strengthen relationships among all ages
and offer older adults and young people a chance to work
together to benefit their communities

The Northland Foundation

What to fund

Multigenerational community gardening programs

Meal preparation/delivery or holiday gifts and parties for families in need

Intergenerational citizen action forums that explore issues facing the community

Cultural programs involving youth and older adults

Construction projects that result in renovated homes, parks or playgrounds

Local initiatives that engage multiple generations to address a community problem

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Young and old working together When the old are not allowed to tell their story, the young grow up without history. When the young are not listened to, we lose unique ideas and have no future. Gunhild Hagestad, Ph.D., 1999 UN Year of the Older Persons' keynote address By working together, young people and older adults bring tremendous benefits to their communities.

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Winter on the Farm

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I have included a basic draft question/information sheet that allows individuals to fill out and return to the YEP co-coordinators to allow a continued great experience past the initial launch. This could be promoted in newsletters in schools and nursing homes as mentioned in my oral presentation.

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Kintaro's Adventures

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Ganesha's Sweet Tooth

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How the birds got their colours

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This will include a varied book selection appropriate to age and similarities between pairs to encourage and comfort youth and elderly alike.
Examples of such may include: --

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My contribution to the project will be developing a simple system allowing YEP to pair the youth with elderly based on culture and interests alike to provide a sense of familiarity, enthused beneficial learning and cultural awareness and support.

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http://singeroftheword.wixsite.com/youtheldersproject
This is a sampler of the website I would create for the project.  It includes a home page, a listener's page, a reader's page and a page for the launch.  In the full version I would also add a contact page and a couple of pages that describe the project in more detail, plus a registration page which would include child protection links for listeners.  I would work on design issues and be diligent to check that all details are correct with the other disicplines.

It could also have some fun interactive pages that revolved around books that could help the pairs discover different literacy to read.  It could include pictures and videos of the children dressing up on the launch day.

In the sampler I have included a little work from the different disciplines working on the project. This would be much more in the finished product and would need good communication with all the different people working on Y.E.P!  A good website for a project can help to not only communicate to possible people interested in the project but can also help those working on the project to communicate and bring their different disciplines together in a place that can easily be referenced.

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Here are three examples of successful intergenerational literacy programs (submitted by Sabine Uehlein, Stiftung Lesen)

1. USA: Intergenerational penpals write about books in the USA

Connecting young library visitors with elderly people at the Clare Oaks Retirement Community in Bartlett. With this idea in mind started the youth librarian Kimberley Gotches the project Pages Across the Ages at the Bartlett Public Library. Bartlett is an U.S. American town located in Illinois.

Only starting in February 2012, the project has already 49 participants. The idea: Old and young become penpals and write each other letters about the same books they read. Children and parents get aware of this project via the library newsletter, in-house posters, fliers, a display board with all the partner's pictures and by word-of-mouth. The project has been entirely funded by the library itself. According to Susan Westgate, the library's assistant director, other libraries have shown interest in imitating the project.

http://www.readingworldwide.com/index.php?id=51594

2. Estonia: Storiegrannies

Storygrannies is a project aimed at the involvement of grandparents in the activities of nursery schools. The project will be launched together with the Grandparents' Society and day centres for retired people and will comprise joint activities and events involving grandparents (not necessarily biological grandparents of children) and children of pre-school age on a regular basis. The retired people read, tell stories and carry out educational activities.

Goals of the project:

1. to engage with the experience and skills of the older generation for the purpose of developing children

2. to increase the quality of life of the elderly by offering them opportunities for communication and activities

3. to diversify activities in nursery schools

4. to foster closer contacts between nursery schools and community.

http://www.readingworldwide.com/index.php?id=46387

3. Canada

i2i Intergenerational Society British Columbia, Canada

The 'i2i' is an abbreviation of an 'invitation (i) to intergenerational immersion (2i)'. The i2i Intergenerational Society of Canada, based out of British Columbia, was created in 2008 to assist Canadians in the building of bridges between generations.

As the founder and leader of The Meadows School Project Sharon Mackenzie had become aware of, and concerned about, the increasing alienation between generations in our society. It appeared that various ages of people were growing farther apart, physically, socially, and emotionally, particularly the young and the elderly. As a result of this concern, the Meadows School Project was launched, in Coldstream, B.C.

The Meadows School Project moved the classroom to the Heritage Chapel in Coldstream Meadows Retirement Community. Students moved out of the traditional classroom for five weeks in the fall semester and three weeks in the spring semester, and were placed in an 'immersion' situation within the Retirement Community. After this time the integration of seniors and youth continued with bi-weekly cross-over visits for the rest of the school year.

The intent of the project was to begin the dissolution of unspoken beliefs and prejudices held by youth about seniors, and seniors about youth.

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Here are three examples of successful intergenerational literacy programs (submitted by Sabine Uehlein, Stiftung Lesen) 1. USA: Intergenerational penpals write about books in the USA Connecting young library visitors with elderly people at the Clare Oaks Retirement Community in Bartlett.

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Other examples around the world of Intergenerational Literacy Websites

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Other examples around the world of Intergenerational Literacy Websites

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These are some of the websites I have found of different intergenerational literacy projects around the world.  The YEP! website could also include a link page to these and similar sites and also to different research sites that have explored the benefits of intergenerational projects especially literacy.

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My contribution to the project will be in developing an interactive web presence for Y.E.P. which will be accessible and easy to use for both children, youth, and seniors alike.  This will include a website with linked nodes to flicker, twitter, youtube and a facebook page.  I also will research and promote links to other websites that have used intergenerational literacy techniques.

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Fine Art & Visual Culture

Roles for Y.E.P!

Design promotional imagery.

Develop branding & program’s logo.

Collaborate on Padlet design.

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The sun-drenched common room at the south end of Columbia Garden Village retirement home in Invermere, B.C., is quiet most days. The shuffle of slippers on linoleum, the clink of a coffee mug in the sink, or the click of knitting needles are often the only sounds.

But every Tuesday and Friday, 18 kindergartners from Eileen Madson Primary School arrive in a yellow school bus and take over, turning the home's common room into a classroom, and the home's residents into active participants. The kindergartners go about their lessons, crafts and play time surrounded by the seniors who live there. Some elders watch from the sidelines, others roll up their sleeves and build block towers or indulge in a reading of a Scooby-Doo storybook.

Education

It's enough to draw Kay Maras out of her room every week. She makes the 50-metre trip down the carpeted hallway and parks her walker by the door, then watches as the children pour in with their rainbow-coloured ski jackets and Tinkerbell lunch boxes.

It took months of physical therapy for her to build up enough strength in her 84-year-old legs for the walk. She sometimes helps the kids with reading, writing and art projects, and being needed is good motivation.

"You wouldn't think the children would want to spend the time with us, but they do," Ms. Maras said one recent morning, after reviewing the letter 'i' with five-year-old Kayla Wolfenden.

With fewer children growing up with a grandparent in the home, emerging research suggests they are missing out on rich learning opportunities. The Invermere collaboration is the brainchild of Rocky Mountain School District's superintendent, Paul Carriere, and his wife, Barbara, a kindergarten teacher.

The Carrieres were sitting on the dock at their family cottage on the Sunshine Coast in the summer of 2010, when Barbara read about a kindergarten classroom located in a seniors home in Oklahoma. The program had seen the children's reading improve while medication rates among the seniors had declined.

Bobbing together on the waters of Powell Lake, the Carrieres decided this was something they should bring to Invermere. In their small mountain community of 4,000, Columbia Gardens was one of just two retirement homes, and it serves a relatively independent population of seniors. Administrators there embraced the idea, and after two conference calls to the ministries of health and education, the Carrieres had the go-ahead.

They had an open house for parents and seniors that December, and the program has been up and running since January of 2011.

Even on their first day in the home, the children seemed naturally drawn to the elders. There's a symmetry between them, each in life stages that leave them a little vulnerable.

As learning partners they're a good match. Reading, for instance, is a skill often preserved long after age has eroded other mental faculties. And Barbara Carriere says the seniors make for patient teachers, and the children are at ease around them. "They're just completely accepting of each other," she said. "It makes for a million magic moments."

The concept of intergenerational learning is winning a small following. In Toronto, at the Baycrest retirement home, seniors act as consultants for a high-school philosophy class by talking about death and aging. In Cleveland, a charter elementary school has seen benefits for inner-city students who collaborate with adults of different ages. And in Jenks, Okla. - the Carrieres' inspiration - a kindergarten classroom relocated full-time to a retirement home has boosted students' standardized test scores in reading, lowered medication rates and improved reported quality of life among its residents.

The Invermere initiative is believed to be the only one of its kind in Canada.

"The life experience of the elder can really enrich the learning of younger people," said Bianca Stern, director of Baycrest, a research facility associated with the University of Toronto. "It's a new concept, and it's challenging the stereotype of aging by tapping into the strengths of seniors."

This fall, when Ms. Maras's therapy had made her strong enough to visit the class, Ms. Carriere prepped her students with a lesson on osteoporosis, explaining that their visitor's bones were fragile.

When she comes to visit, the children move gingerly around Ms. Maras, careful not to bump her legs or her walker. They slip in and out of the chair beside her, bringing storybooks, toys and drawings to show off.

The students have responded well to the program, referring to the residents as "grandmas and grandpas." One girl even asked her parents if she could have her birthday party at the retirement home. It's taught students about aging, death and compassion, and helped coax others out of their shell - like Bill Warbrick, 5, a shy student with static-prone hair who likes to talk about the weather. His teachers describe him as "an old soul." Most days in his traditional classroom back at Eileen Madson, he plays on his own and rarely asks for help. But when he's at the retirement home, Bill moves around the room, asking seniors to read to him.

Not everyone is thrilled to see the children - some residents lament the loss of their common room, many prefer sleeping in long after class has begun, and others blame the children for a flu outbreak last winter.

"I think they're a little intimidated by the children," said 77-year-old Fran Kimpton, a retired teacher. She's one of about 10 residents out of the home's 68 who visit the classroom regularly.

To address those concerns, Ms. Carriere launched an outreach program this school year, with the children hanging their artwork on the doors of residents.

"There definitely are some residents who just aren't interested, they want to be left alone," said Adrienne Turner, the community manager in charge of activities at the home. "But more and more of them are warming up."

The payoffs can be huge. A study in the U.S. found that older adults who worked with children in a school setting had less stress and a better quality of life compared to those living at a high-end facility interacting with their peers. And the cost is low: The parent council at Eileen Madson raised just over $2,200 to cover the cost of their intergenerational program. Most of the budget went toward transportation and supplies for the off-site classroom.

"This really isn't something out of reach," Ms. Carriere said. "There are senior facilities everywhere and schools everywhere, and for the cost of busing and some coat hooks you can do something that really makes a difference."

Ms. Maras's bones are feeling strong. She's walking more, and finding a sense of purpose in her days.

"It turns out I really love teaching the kids," she said.

This was something of a surprise, as Ms. Maras never married or had a family of her own. The trick to keeping children happy, she says, is enabling them to feel independent.

"You can't help them too much," she said. "You have to let them figure it out on their own."

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Kindergarten in a retirement home proves a hit with young and old

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The sun-drenched common room at the south end of Columbia Garden Village retirement home in Invermere, B.C., is quiet most days. The shuffle of slippers on linoleum, the clink of a coffee mug in the sink, or the click of knitting needles are often the only sounds.

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Bringing Generations together in a fun and creative way.

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Bringing Generations together in a fun and creative way.

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This is a great example of how our event should enlighten both generations world if its even for an hour or so. telling stories, listening to each other about their everyday life, and make each other laugh. A young one is always a blessing to an elder but a young one dressed up in a book character will put a smile one their face any day.
Image Credit and Copyright:
Hammer, Kate. 2011. "Kindergarten in a Retirement Home Proves a Hit with Young and Old." The Globe and Mail.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kindergarten-in-a-retirement-home-proves-a-hit-with-young-and-old/article4103165/

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This board shows how we would be putting together the costumes for our event.  we will also ask the readers before hand as to what they like to read and act out so it will be easier to get the producs ready. we will try to make it as colorful  and fun as much as possible for the reader and listeners to enjoy.
these images are from this website as well as this website is a very good example of how to design the costumes.
Image Credit and Copyright: Burnett, Christie.2016. Childhood101:Playing Learning Growing.
http://childhood101.com/2015/08/book-week-costume-ideas/

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Y.E.P! dressing up as literature characters

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Y.E.P! dressing up as literature characters

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This video is an example of how we will be designing the literature costumes and dress up the kids also show them how to show them off properly as to act out and read out loud and teach them how to make them professionally.
Video Credit and Copyright: Youtube
Abbey, Thomas. 2014. Book Characters Dress Up Day. YouTube video, 1:45.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTlJpoiZIuM

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For Read Across America Week the studetnts and teachers dressed up as their favorite book characters.

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It is important for the young generation to have a strong bond with the older generations, as it is a very important aspect of their emotional and psychological wellbeing. My contribution to the event will be dressing young people as characters from literature also I would teach the young kids how to model the outfits to best show them off and explore how all of the costumes could be made professionally.

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Information Technology

Roles for Y.E.P!

Design Lead, designig literature character costumes.

provide lessons to young kids on how to make them professionally

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Professional Writing and Publishing

Roles for Y.E.P!

Creating questionnaire to allow for successful pairing information

Organising a pairing system among youth and elderly regarding similar cultures and interests

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Librarianship

Roles for Y.E.P!

· Arrange venue and prepare for Y.E.P. Opening Night in conjunction with Book Week

·  Provide reading info for our marketers and participants

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Internet Communications

Roles for Y.E.P!
1. Chairperson
2. Develop web presence
3.  Link with other websites with similar projects

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Project:  Y.E.P!     Youth Elders Project!

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Project:  Y.E.P!     Youth Elders Project!

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CAP 2C plan is to introduce a reading literacy program that involves young people improving their reading skills by interacting with the elders of our community and sharing their reading aloud with participants, gaining meaningful benefits from their involvement as community members.

Rationale
When asked to put together a community Arts Project after a little discussion we felt a strong vibe on the importance of the need of two generations bonding and helping each other on the way. Reading literacy could help both sides, as it is an important aspect of their psychological and emotional wellbeing. The young can benefit from reading to elders as they will be improving on their academic skills, life skills and social skills. Also if they are facing any problem at school such as bullying they might feel a little comfortable to communicate with the elders as they start bonding.

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Hello and welcome to our Padlet page Cap2C