Engaging Readers & Life-long Learners!
Here’s a gift-giving idea for Christmas… If You Give A Child A Book If you give a child a book, he’s going to want to read it. And as he reads, he’s going to think about what he’s doing. And Continue reading If you give a child a book
Last week was the official launch of YRCA 2015 at Seaforth. This recreational reading program was explained to all Intermediate classes and the selected books were book talked by Ms.Higgins. As a literary connection to one of the junior titles, The One and Continue reading YRCA 2015
Thank you to all the students and families who attended our Scholastic Book Fair at the end of November. Our sales were an all-time high which has allowed us to take our profits as books and cash. The winner of Continue reading Scholastic Book Fair a big success!
To celebrate Family Day, the library displayed fiction and non-fiction books about families highlighting some of the titles that were recently purchased by the school district which emphasizes family diversity.
This week, prior to our school’s Remembrance Day ceremony on Friday, I read the picture book , The Road to Afghanistan, written by Linda Granfield and illustrated by Brian Deines to all the intermediate classes. It is a fictional but Continue reading Remembrance Day
As many of you know, I have a theme to my Halloween costumes. I always dress up as a book character, usually a popular picture book character. So far, at Seaforth, I’ve been Chester, Fancy Nancy, Pete the Cat, and Continue reading Halloween 2013
Taking inspiration from the picturebook, No, David! by David Shannon, students from Division 14 created their own Davids and came up with some important rules for school. Besides the bulletin board display, they wrote their own classroom book titled Cool Rules for Continue reading No, David! by Mrs. Kaga’s class
During Friday’s Pro D day, teachers spent some time becoming familar with some new apps that can be used with the students at Seaforth. One of them was Cloudart which is very similar to Wordle. I plugged in my blog website address and this Continue reading iPad apps
Wed. Sept 18 & Thurs.Sept.19 12-1 pm & 2-5 pm Reminder to all French Immersion families that our one and only French book fair is this week. Please come and see the great offerings that Scholastic has to offer. Their Continue reading Festival du Livre – Wed. Sept.18 & Thurs. Sept. 19
Welcome back to school, everyone! I hope everyone had a great summer. How could you not with the fabulous weather! We went to Ireland, first to Dublin to meet my cousins, and then to Belfast so that my brother-in-law could Continue reading Summer sightings!