Category: April 6-12 (Page 1 of 2)

Welcome to the BOTB 2021! It won’t be happening in the typical way, but we ARE going to make it happen! Please see the padlet below for the books we will be using this year. If you are in Grade 7, they may look familiar. Books went out last year before Spring Break and then our world changed. If you still have any of these books at home (or know any gr. 8s who might) please just bring them back…no questions asked. 🙂

https://padlet.com/bpapapanagiotou/g6j0zcxbe9dur0w7

Burnaby School Board’s 2019/2020 Words Writing Project is hot off the presses!

Congratulations to our very own Evan S. and Cara H. for representing Clinton so well! Great job!

Click below to read their words and other students’ around our district…

Good morning!

This morning I have some wonderful news for you that I’d like to share…JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, has released a new book!! It is rather a special book and will only be released online, a few chapters at a time.  She is also looking for illustrators and has opened a competition to find them…it could be YOU!!

Please click below to find out more about the story behind The Ickabog, read the first few chapters of the book and learn how you could become the illustrator for one of the most famous authors of all-time!!!

I’ve got to go…I’ve got some reading to do…SO EXCITED!!!

Mrs. H.

PS – If you do some illustrations, please share them with us! Also, would love to know what you think of the story! Woohoo…now I’m really going to read!! 🙂

Please enjoy Div. 2’s photography as they take a different view of “landscape” and capture light within their photos and accompanying words…

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Good afternoon, Lovelies!

This weekend coming up will be more than just sunny! 😉 It is a special Sunday to say thank you and give a hug to special people in your life that love you and keep you going. It might be your mom or grandma or aunt or sister or good friend and they deserve some special recognition. Below you will find a few ideas for some homemade gifts and cards. ♥ Everything can be made with paper, scissors and some markers or pencil crayons…have fun and make someone’s day!!

You could use your special person’s name and make them some art to display or put it on the front of a card…

Or maybe you’ve all been reading a lot more with the extra time at home we have and could gift a book mark…you could make it into whatever you’d like!

Or you could try a fun, folding surprise card… 🙂

I will be sharing some beautiful work from Div. 2 tomorrow, but wanted to get you started on some surprises for Sunday!♥

Happy crafting,

Mrs. H.

Good Morning!

I have a new read aloud under the Read A loud page…you will need to ask your teacher for the password. 🙂

I wish I could have read Superworm  byJulia Donaldson with you…it has such great rhyme and rhythm. It’s a wonderful combination of poetry and lots of creatures on Earth! That fits in nicely, as April is not only Poetry Month it’s also Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22!

Watch below as Kwame Alexander talks all things poetry…enjoy!

Poetry Lessons from The Write Thing – | Teacher Created Materials

Calling all Cool Beans!

Remember when we read The Cool Bean by Jory John and Pete Oswald? It was so fun to read with you and realize that what is really cool is to be kind. Our school is full of Cool Beans!

Here is a video of Pete Oswald as he talks to us about how he came up with the idea for the garbanzo bean and what he uses to do his illustrations. I had never heard of frisket paper before…I love learning new things! Watch below to see what frisket paper is and why Pete Oswald uses it to do his illustrations:

Jory John and Pete Oswald have also teamed up for a new picture book called The Great Eggscape! I have bought it for our library, so you can take it out when we get back to school. 🙂 In the meantime, here is a read aloud of the book below. You may be able to connect if you were hunting for eggs this morning! Happy Easter! And Happy Vaisakhi tomorrow!

Happy reading, too!

Mrs. H.

Good morning, Lovelies…

I have been re-reading one of my favourite authors over the last few weeks. I very rarely re-read anything, as I have stacks of new books that are waiting to be read! But Richard Wagamese is different. He was an Ojibway Canadian author and journalist and has won many awards and even had one of his books made into a movie. I find his words to be so powerful and transformative. Here are some I want to share with you…

All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…

-Richard Wagamese

I hope you take the time to create the best possible story you can, especially under the circumstances.  I continue to miss you all and the stories we get to share and make together.  🙂

Mrs. H. (I would insert a heart here, but I’m working on figuring that out…help? 😉 )

Good morning, Clinton Thunderbirds! 🙂

Since I left you yesterday, I have been wondering about OK from THE OK Book and just how Tom Lichtenheld, the illustrator, came up with his idea. This lead me to do a little research and I found Tom’s site that was really fun to explore. If you’d like to explore it, follow this link

https://www.tomlichtenheld.com/childrens_books/

On the site, I found an interview with another children’s author and illustrator, Carrie Charley Brown. In the interview, Tom had these words of wisdom for budding illustrators:

“Don’t forget that illustration is as much about ideas as technique.”

I’ve got ideas, I thought, but I can’t even say I’m ‘OK’ on technique! 🙂

Thankfully, I know many illustrators who are helping us all with technique while we’re staying safe at home. You will definitely know these three, as we’ve read their books together at Clinton. Take a peek at these sites and get working on your own illustrations. As always, feel free to take a picture of your creations and post in the comments. Can’t wait to find the next Mo Willems or Carson Ellis here at Clinton!

First, Mo Willems:

Next, Carson Ellis:

Dav Pilkey draws Big Jim and Commander Cupcake! Dogman, too!

https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/books/dav-pilkey-at-home/

Have fun and keep reading, too!

Mrs. H.