News about the library and more!
It was a busy week in the library. We had our Scholastic Book Fair all week. I hope you had a chance to visit and find a great new read. Thank you to all the parent and staff volunteers who helped make it a success.
We also had student led conferences on Wednesday and Thursday. Many students came to the library to show their families our school iPads. They shared imovies, ebooks, Haiku Deck poems and more!
Hope everyone is having a great long weekend. Just thinking about my favourite read alouds from last week.
The first one was If not for the cat by Jack Pretlusky. The clever book of haiku poetry provided many classes with riddles to solve and syllables to clap.
Next was another hilarious book from Jan Thomas, The Easter Bunny’s Assistant. Skunk’s “exciting” antics made everyone giggle- a lot!
See everyone on Tuesday when the book fair opens in the library!
Tomorrow is poem in your pocket day! Looking forward to listening to and seeing all your poems. Here are some poems students in Division 8 have written about spring.
Daffodils : A Child’s Garden of Poetry : Video : The Poetry Foundation.
This is one of the videos we watched this week in the library. Enjoy!
It’s hard to believe, but we’ve reached 200 nights of reading! Please bring your forms to the library and pick up your new 250 night forms. Reading club members will be recognized at our next assembly on April 29th. Don’t forget that everyone who hands in their form is entered to win in the book draws!
What am I reading tonight? I bought a new book for the library called The Copernicus Legacy by Tony Abbott. It’s a thrilling adventure where four children set off around the world to solve a mystery. I can’t wait to find out what happens next. My goal is to finish it this weekend so I can bring it to school Monday for one of you!
April is poetry month and we’ve been having lots of fun with poetry in the library this past week. Students have been reading poetry and talking about what they notice.
Divisions 5 and 16 read many different poetry books and marked their favourites with a post it. They then passed the book to a friend so they could read the poems they chose and maybe find one or two of their own. Here are some of the things they noticed about the poems they read.
We also explored a great poetry web site. Poetryfpundation.org has some great resources including videos of poems. We watched some in the library.My favourite was “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
After divisions 7 and 8 listened to this poem with their ears and their hearts, we wrote our own poems using what we had heard and what words or phrases were most powerful for us. Here are our poems:
Do you like things neat and organized or random and messy? Would you like your alphabet soup sorted by letter in your bowl or your laundry sorted by colour? This week Division 20 read a great new book called The Art of Clean up by Ursus Wehrli.
Afterwards we had fun sorting our own collections In a variety of ways.
On February 19th we reached 100 nights of reading. On Thursday, February 27th we will recognize all the staff and students who have participated in the Reading Club. We will give away some great book prizes to some lucky winners, too.
Unfortunately, we are down in our number of participants this term.
One of the many reasons we run the Reading Club is to support families. We want to help families model the importance of reading by making it an essential part of their day. You can help by reading to your child, listening to your child read, or reading yourself while your child is reading. Make this an enjoyable time of day and let your child choose their own reading materials as much as possible.
Pick up the forms anytime from the library. It’s never too late to join!
We will reach 200 nights on April 10th. Everyone who completes 250 nights of reading will be able to place their name in a book in the library.
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Pink Day is coming up on February 26th. We’re celebrating friendship, kindness and respect! We will be creating a “Wall of Pink” in the hallway outside the gym with our ideas. Check out the display in the library and find a great read about making the world a better place.
During literacy week we all read the book Journey by Aaron Becker. It is an stunningly beautiful wordless picture book that celebrates the imagination. This week it was announced that Journey had been awarded the prestigious Caldecott Honor. Congratulations, Mr. Becker!
Watch the video below to learn how the book was made: