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Many families have now reached 50 days of at-home reading!  If you are participating, please return your form this week or after the break, and receive a calendar to read towards 100 days.  While the holidays are a busy time, enjoy the chance to read together over the break.

Last week our first home reading club calendar of the year went home–50 Days of Reading.  If you choose to participate, please mark every day that you and/or your child read(s).  Please return the calendar, signed by a parent/caregiver, to me in the library when you have finished 50 days.

  

Even if you do not choose to mark the calendar, it is still very important to be reading every day.  For more information about the benefits of reading, please check out the following article: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/30/5-benefits-of-reading-for-kids_n_4018741.html

On Wednesday, October 23rd, we welcomed three of the four authors of the Almost Epic Squad series to the library.  Kevin Sylvester, Ted Staunton, and Richard Scrimger visited with our Grade 2/3 to Grade 6/7 classes to discuss their 4-book series about kid superheroes who develop, at first glance, quirky superpowers that aren’t very super at all!  Their presentation was wonderfully engaging, funny, and inspiring.

They also talked about how they write as a group to develop their stories and gave students tips about their writing process.  Number one rule?  Don’t use an eraser!  Keep, change, leave out, and develop those ideas, but don’t erase them.  Our students are eager to start reading this series! 

   

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