{"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 our parents and the first language we use to socially engage with everyone around us.\u00a0Why is it important to maintain our mother tongue? It is [&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":{"0":"post-16791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-today-at-ridge","7":"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}]}}