{"id":14252,"date":"2026-03-13T11:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=14252"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:28:51","slug":"a-message-from-the-allenby-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/a-message-from-the-allenby-library\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from the Allenby Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To all parents and caregivers, we need your voices! This year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allenbyparents.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de&amp;id=9743c4c973&amp;e=6eb4078d30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/forestofreading.com\/about-the-forest\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1773243044864000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ASzgEk-Q00lxmR5FjNS9_\">Forest of Reading Contest<\/a>\u00a0is off to a great start. Students from Grades 3\u20136 have five\u00a0contests to choose from. Please encourage your child to participate!<\/p>\n<p>We have two\u00a0events planned for our K-2 classes on Wednesday, April 8th (<a href=\"https:\/\/allenbyparents.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de&amp;id=2dd67b7ebd&amp;e=6eb4078d30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/forestofreading.com\/blue-spruce-nominees-2026\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1773243044864000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ofMuSwjDOVe7LF4pmiuGl\">Blue Spruce Award\u00a0<\/a>for English Readers) and Wednesday, April 15th (<a href=\"https:\/\/allenbyparents.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5b5527a684a32a91614edc1de&amp;id=0802b0bbf9&amp;e=6eb4078d30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/forestofreading.com\/le-prix-peuplier-2026\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1773243044864000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2jhyJ4h7_jKvonUd009zWX\">Le Prix Peuplier\u00a0<\/a>for French Readers). Both events will take place in the morning. Who will be the readers? Our staff are ready and willing, but it would be exciting to have a few guest readers!\u00a0<strong>If you are interested in reading, please contact<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:alanna.julian@tdsb.on.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alanna Julian<\/a>.\u00a0If you have a job with a uniform (tool belt, hard hat, apron, scrubs, an instrument) or have a shared history or experiences with one of the authors or characters (dragon boats, bannock, Jamaican patties, poutine, engineering, moving to a new country,\u00a0punk rock dad, super moms), or you just love to read aloud, our K-2 students would love to hear you read.<\/p>\n<p>Email me\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:alanna.julian@tdsb.on.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0to let me know whether you want to read for the French or English event, and if you have a preferred book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all parents and caregivers, we need your voices! This year\u2019s\u00a0Forest of Reading Contest\u00a0is off to a great start. Students from Grades 3\u20136 have five\u00a0contests to choose from. Please encourage your child to participate! We have two\u00a0events planned for our K-2 classes on Wednesday, April 8th (Blue Spruce Award\u00a0for English Readers) and Wednesday, April 15th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14253,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14252\/revisions\/14253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}