Engaging Readers & Life-long Learners!
There is a website I just found out about that offers free books to read on-line. It’s called We Give Books and is a Pearson Foundation Initiative sponsored by Pearson Publishing and Penguin Books . What’s fabulous about this site is that Continue reading We Give Books website
This month, Ms.Smith, Mrs.Eterman’s replacement, has been teaching students about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement through stories and song. This week in the library, Intermediate students will learn about Rosa Parks who challenged the segregation policies Continue reading Monday, Jan.16th – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Last week, I read the primary classes Calvin Can’t Fly: the story of a Bookworm Birdie, by Jennifer Berne. It’s about a bird who couldn’t fly but loved to read. The fact that Calvin could read ended up saving his Continue reading Non-Fiction & the Dewey Decimal System
Welcome back to school! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! To start the New Year off, some Intermediate classes will be learning about an old French-Canadian folktale, The Flying Canoe, in French La Chasse-galerie. They will see a National Continue reading Happy New Year!
On Wednesday, December 14th, the Library Monitor Club presented a lunchtime Christmas Reader’s Theatre for Kindergartners, Grade 1s and 2s. It was a tremendous turnout – over 80 students attended! The monitors presented reader’s theatre versions of How the Grinch Stole Continue reading Christmas Reader’s Theatre
Hanukkah begins at sundown on Tuesday, December 20th. This week I’ll be showing a video clip of an old folktale called The Golem’s Latkes adapted by Eric Kimmel to some of the Intermediate classes. Eric Reads “The Golem’s Latkes” from Continue reading Happy Hanukkah!
This week, I’ll be telling the grade 6 & 7 students about the truce of Christmas, 1914 using Jim Murphy’s book , Truce and J. Patrick Lewis’ book, And the Soldiers Sang. Students are encouraged to follow up the lesson by watching this video Continue reading The Christmas Truce, 1914
Students from grades 2 to 7 will be able to take books out over the winter holiday. Grade 2s are allowed 2 books and grade 3s to 7s are allowed 3. Students are reminded that they can not take school Continue reading Holiday Borrowing Policy
Christmas is the perfect time to encourage a love of books and reading. A book (or books) under the Christmas tree is a tradition in my family. However, last Christmas my younger son ,now 21, said not to get him the Continue reading The gift of books & reading
If you liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Candy Shop War, then you might like to read The Candymakers by Wendy Mass. If you like the The Mysterious Benedict Society series, then you have to read Mr.Benedict’s Book Continue reading New Books in the Library