Engaging Readers & Life-long Learners!
A reminder to all students and their families that there will be a Scholastic Book Fair on Wednesday, Nov.28th and Thursday, Nov. 29th in the School Library. The book fair will be held from 12-1 pm and 3-6 pm on Continue reading Scholastic Book Fair – Nov.28th and 29th
This week, classes heard stories of war and peace. One touching book about Remembrance Day is titled Why We Remember which was written and illustrated by a class from Graysville elementary School in Manitoba. Students also heard the song, Let Continue reading Remembrance Day
This Halloween, there are some great new books to read to the students. Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown was a big hit with the primaries because it had a great mix of imagination and humour. Here is a video Continue reading Happy Halloween!
Grade 1 and 2 students are invited to a Halloween Lunchtime Storytime on Tuesday, October 30th at 12:15 in the library. The Library Club will be presenting a reader’s theatre of The Hallo Wiener by Dav Pilkey, reading Good night Goon and singing Continue reading Lunchtime Storytime
National School Library Day was this week on Monday, October 22nd. It’s a day to celebrate the importance of school libraries in making students literate and lifelong learners. We are very fortunate in Burnaby to have ‘ the cadillac’ of Continue reading National School Library Day
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! This week in the library, I’ll be reading Splat says Thank You! by Robert Scotton to the lower primary classes as a finale to Thanksgiving. Here at the Seaforth Library, Splat is Continue reading Thank you, Dewey!
This Monday is Thanksgiving in Canada so that has been the theme in the Library this week. Lower primary classes were read Bear says Thanks by Karma Wilson, and the upper primary classes were read Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano. The Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s the end of September and I am finally posting my first blog of the school year. As usual, it’s been a busy month of making library cards for new students, distributing Reading Club passports, getting the class schedule set. This Continue reading Welcome back! September happenings…
Congratulations to Team 1, The BookBusters who represented Seaforth at the North Zone District Finals at Gilmore School on May 17th. After coming out on top of the 9 teams competing at Seaforth, they went on to come in 2nd Continue reading Battle of the Books – North Zone District Finals
Voting takes place this week at Seaforth for Livromanie. If you are a French Immersion student and have read 3 of the 8 titles in the program, you can vote as to which one you think is the best book. Continue reading Livromanie – voting this week, May 7 -11