South Slope/ BCSD Library

Congratulations to our South Slope Team who won second place at the South Zone finals of the Battle of the Books on Tuesday, May 2nd! These grade 6/7 students were part of a lunch time club that has been meeting once a week since Spring Break.  Students read as many of the 10 books as they could (some even read all 10!) and then we “battled” each week with trivia questions about the books.  The team was made up of students who both wanted to go to the battle and who had read the most books. Ten schools participated in the South Zone finals at Taylor Park Elementary.  They were asked forty tough questions and answered 27 correctly to place second! The winning school was Taylor Park with 31 correct answers- we weren’t far behind.  Thank you to our PAC for purchasing books for this club.  We can’t wait for next year!

Thank you to the South Slope/BCSD community for making our Scholastic Book Fair such a great success.  We earned just over $2800 in rewards that we can use for the library! Amazing! A very big thank you also to the students and staff who volunteered their time. I couldn’t do it without you.

November 2nd is I Read Canadian Day! It has been officially proclaimed by the City of Burnaby and will be recognized throughout the country.

We will be reading Canadian books in the library and in our classrooms to celebrate.  Students are also invited to check Canadian books out from the library this week and every week.  There are so many to choose from!

Welcome back! I hope you all had a great summer.  This summer I spent a lot of time in the garden and have lately been enjoying some of my delicious tomatoes!

Another highlight this summer was our family trip to Mexico.  We watched baby sea turtles hatch on the beach and make their way to the ocean.

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And then the next night during dinner, a mama sea turtle came up to the beach and laid 97 eggs! It was awe inspiriing. In the morning we found her tracks in the sand.

And, of course, I did a lot of reading.  I found myself really enjoying mysteries this summer and some new graphic novels, too.

I’m looking forward to seeing you all next week and finding out what you did this summer.  What was your favourite read? What wishes do you have for reading and the library this year? What do you want to learn? What do you wonder about? The library and I are here for you.  Can’t wait to see what we  discover together and the stories we tell.

In April of 2022, divisions 3 and 4 began a project in the library that began with Earth Day.  We asked the students to create stories about how to take care of the earth using stop motion animation.  First we played with the app, Stop Motion Studio, and learned how to create stories using loose parts and stop motion. Then students created a story map with a partner around our Earth Day theme.  Next students created their stop motion animation movie.  After it was complete they imported it into iMovie and added some slides.  Finally we watched all their movies and the students provided feedback to one another as well as doing their own self assessment.  It was hard work, but fun! We hope you enjoy their movies.

It’s almost summer and that means it’s time for the Summer Reading Club at the public library near you.  Click here to learn more about Burnaby Public Library and here for the BC Summer Reading Club.

Check out the poster below for the exciting events happening this week at South Slope/BCSD!