Ag Literacy Day
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam kicked off this year’s Florida Agriculture Literacy Day event by reading to 70 second, third, fourth and fifth graders at Shady Hill Elementary in Ocala and 120 fifth graders at Columbia City Elementary in Lake City on Monday, April 25.`The official Florida Agriculture Literacy Day is set for Tuesday, April 26, when more than 1,200 agriculture industry volunteers will reach more than 60,000 Florida students.
-Read the 2011 Agriculture Literacy Day Press Release (PDF).
The ninth annual Florida Agriculture Literacy Day is scheduled for Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Florida Agriculture in the Classroom, Inc. invites Florida agriculture industry volunteers to read its newest storybook to elementary school children.
Registration for Florida Agriculture Literacy Day will begin in early 2012 on Florida Agriculture in the Classroom’s website at www.agtag.org The deadline to register, if you’re reading on Florida Agriculture Literacy Day, is Friday, April 16, 2012. If you are reading after that, we ask that you register at least two weeks in advance.
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services employees, University of Florida IFAS Extension Agents, 4-H Agents and Master Gardeners, Florida Farm Bureau members, Florida Cattlemen and Cattlewomen members, FFA teachers, students and other agriculture industry representatives are invited to read and are asked to schedule their classroom visits with schools at least two weeks before their readings.
For more information contact Holiday Griffin at hgriffin@ufl.edu or call the office at 352-846-1391.
Agriculture Literacy Day Books:
- These Florida Farms (PDF/3.55 MB)
- Green Florida Farms (PDF/3.66 MB)
- Florida Farms at Work (PDF/11.9 MB)
2010 Agriculture Literacy Day forms:
- Download the Coloring Book» (28-page PDF/5 MB)
- Green Florida Farms Discussion Questions (PDF)
- Edible Activity "Watershed & Envirosnacks" (PDF)
- Gardening Activity "Garden in a Glove" (PDF)