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
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
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!
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!
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
Last week, I showed Intermediate classes non-fiction and fiction books about the Titanic. It was amazing how much some students knew interesting facts about this tragic event. To say the least, nearly all the books about the Titanic are checked Continue reading The Titanic