Love Letters to CDS
Visiting author, Lindsay Zier-Vogel, came to our Junior School Library to speak with our grade 2 and 3 classes recently about her community-based 'Love Lettering' Project and to share her wonderful new book entitled Dear Street. Photo Gallery
Students enjoyed learning all about her writing process and how the excitement around the author's letter writing initiative has caught on here and spread abroad. Lindsay's delightful and inspiring story Dear Street, colorfully illustrated by Caroline Bonne-Müller, is a Canadian Children's Book Centre book of the year, a Junior Library Guild pick and has been nominated by the Ontario Library Association for a Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award this year.
Dear Street is an uplifting story that celebrates how small acts by a single person can make a difference in a community. It inspires readers to pay careful attention to the beauty around them and appreciate the special little things that they encounter each day. During her visit with our students, Lindsay shared how her story was inspired by the international 'Love Lettering Project' that she created, in which participants write love letters about cherished things in their communities and hide them for strangers to discover.
Dear Street is an uplifting story that celebrates how small acts by a single person can make a difference in a community. It inspires readers to pay careful attention to the beauty around them and appreciate the special little things that they encounter each day. During her visit with our students, Lindsay shared how her story was inspired by the international 'Love Lettering Project' that she created, in which participants write love letters about cherished things in their communities and hide them for strangers to discover.
Our grade 2 and 3 students were inspired by the author's project to create love letters of their own to the inside and outside of their beloved school - CDS. The grade 3 students wrote love letters to CDS about all the wonders of nature that they enjoy in the school yard and in the 'Back 40'. The trails, flowers and the soccer field are very popular and so are the fast slides! While our grade 2 students focused on all that they love about the inside of our school, like their kind teachers, great food and good friendships, with visits from the ice cream truck being highly rated too! Please feel welcome to check out all of the 'DEAR CDS' love letters celebrating our community by students on display outside our Junior School Library now.
Land Acknowledgment
The Country Day School wishes to recognize and acknowledge the land on which the school operates. Our nearest Indigenous Nations are now the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Chippewas of Georgina Island. The Dish with One Spoon Wampum covenant is often cited as an example of the shared responsibility for caring for these lands among the Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples who would call these their traditional territories. CDS respects the relationship with these lands and recognizes that our connection to this land can be strengthened by our continued relationship with all First Nations, by acknowledging our shared responsibility to respect and care for the land and waters for future generations.
School Information
13415 Dufferin Street King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
