Month: March 2022

Since September, students in divisions 1 and 2 have had the opportunity to read the books in this year’s Young Reader’s Choice Awards and now it is time to vote.

If you have read at least 2 of the books in a category, you can vote in that category. We had all 8 of the Junior books and 3 of the 8 Intermediate books this year. You may vote now online (link below) until Friday, April 8th at 11:59 pm.

VOTE HERE!

If you wish to vote in person see Mrs. Nerpio first thing Monday morning, during your library time or when Mrs. Nerpio is alone in the library on a Tuesday or Friday.

While I have not been able to find the information on their website, I’ve heard that you may also be able to vote at a branch of the Burnaby Public Library. If that is the case, you can only vote one time at either school OR the public library, not both.

Battle of the Books (BOTB) is back for our students in Division 1 as part of their Language Arts program as well as a friendly reading competition between schools.

Students have been divided up into 3 teams and each team is responsible to read all 10 books, from a variety of genres. Some students may read 1 book and others may read all 10 books but most students should aim to read at least 2 books, though 3 or 4 books is most common. It is important that students read the book they have and submit their questions in a timely fashion so others on the team can also read the book giving the team the best chance at success.

This year each team will have it’s own channel on the class Team where they can find copies of the question sheet and Personal Reading Record if they need to print a new copy. They can also connect with their teammates about Battle of the Books outside of school hours using the Teams chat function. For example, they may wish to make arrangements to swap books during Spring Break, help each other wording questions in the specific format, quizzing each other, or discussing the books they have read. This chat area will be monitored.

Students responsibilities:

Reading as many of the 10 books as they can

Submitting questions for our practice battles (paper and/or online  Click here to submit a question online)

Participating in the practice battles

Submitting a Personal Reading Record (paper OR online through Teams)

Rating the books they have read (paper OR online through Teams)

The books:

Click the links below to see a book trailer or book review of each of the books.

11 Birthdays
Ark Angel
Barren Grounds
Belly Up
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brave
Embrace the Chicken
Melissa
My Life as a Book
Rules
 

Another teacher-librarian in the district created this Padlet to promote the books that you might also like to look at … Padlet Promos