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Pickney Time | Story Time
Program Themes & Sub-Topics:
Program 1 – October 28 – “Accessibility Matters” – Disabilities Awareness Month – October 2020 Differently-Abled Inclusion – Visual or Sensory Impairment – Blindness Featured Books – Anya goes to Jamaica by Nikko M. Fung Chung | Yes I Can: A Girl and her Wheelchair by Kendra J. Barrett | All Because You Matter by Tami Charles
Program 2 – November 11 – “Growing Stronger” – Indigenous People/Food Security Differently-Abled Inclusion – Auditory Disability – Hearing Impaired Featured Books: The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pickney | Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem by Valerie Bloom | A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennet Coverley Found Her Voice by Nadia L. Hohn
Program 3 – November 25 – “Turkey Thursday” – Celebrate Thanksgiving Differently-Abled Inclusion – Intellectual Disability – IEP Special Learning and Dyslexia Featured Books: Don’t Call Me Special | Mama God Papa God A Caribbean Tales by Richardo Keens-Douglas | Did you say Pasghtti? Dusty and Danny tackle Dyslexia by Tammy Fortune | Turkey Hokey Pokey
Program 4 – December 9 – “Go For the Torch” – Special Olympics Differently-Abled Inclusion – Physical Disability Featured Books: Don’t Call Me Special by Pat Thomas | We All Sing with the Same Voice by J. Philip Miller and Shep Greene (video)
Activities: Miniature Games | Arts & Craft Activities