{"id":16791,"date":"2025-02-21T08:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/?p=16791"},"modified":"2025-02-21T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:57:58","slug":"national-mother-tongue-day-february-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/national-mother-tongue-day-february-21\/","title":{"rendered":"National Mother Tongue Day &#8211; February 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today is the world celebrates the International Mother Tongue Day. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is a mother tongue? It is the language we learn from birth on; the language we first hear from our parents and the first language we use to socially engage with everyone around us.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why is it important to maintain our mother tongue? It is a way to preserve our culture and a way for us to communicate with our relatives who might not speak English. In addition, speaking another language helps improve our memory as well as thinking skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mother Tongue Day at MRSS:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019d love to know the diverse languages spoken in our school community! Thank you to all students and staff who have already filled out the super quick survey.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In March, we\u2019ll celebrate Mother Tongue Day with tutorial sessions where speakers of different languages can collaborate to create posters representing their language. Stay tuned for more details!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the world celebrates the International Mother Tongue Day. What is a mother tongue? It is the language we learn from birth on; the language we first hear from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-today-at-ridge","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16792,"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions\/16792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondary.sd42.ca\/mrss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}