Play With Your Literacy Skills!

Plan to meet your friends or family. • give them directions to a place you like in your neighbourhood Write down how to play your favourite childhood game and teach your family how to play it. • learn how you can Play for Literacy and make a difference at www.FamilyLiteracyDay.ca  Share a bedtime story with your child. • act out the story using different voices and sound effects Go to the library with your family. • read or borrow books and magazines on your favourite hobbies Try out this recipe for Jam-Filled French Toast Sandwiches. • make them together as a family

Jam-Filled French Toast Sandwiches Ingredients 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 cup of milk 8 slices of bread 4 eggs 8 tablespoons fruit jam 4 teaspoons sugar Directions 1 Get a large bowl (big enough to fit a slice of bread) and mix the milk and eggs in the bowl. 2 Get a small bowl and mix the sugar and cinnamon in the bowl. 3 Spread jam on one side of each slice of bread. 4 Put two pieces of bread together to make a jam sandwich. 5 Dip the jam sandwich into the large bowl, turning it over to cover the sandwich on both sides with the milk and eggs mix. 6 Lightly grease a frying pan and warm it on the stove top. 7 Put the jam sandwich in the frying pan. 8 Cook for two minutes on one side and flip to cook other side until golden brown on both sides. 9 Sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon on top of each sandwich. Serve warm. Tip: Use maple syrup, honey, peanut butter or fruit slices instead of jam! Read together. Grow together. Learn more at www.FamilyLiteracyDay.ca

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