Author: araujoj

It was an exciting week at South Slope/BCSD!  Divisions 9 and 10 have been reading many versions of the Gingerbread man story and even made their own gingerbread boy.  On Tuesday they put him in the oven to bake, but when they returned to the kitchen he was gone!  They searched all over the school, but couldn’t find him.

On Wednesday morning when I came back to the library I noticed all the missing posters they had made and spoke to some of the students about their missing gingerbread boy.  Later that day I was shocked to see the gingerbread boy running through the library!  He was so frightened, but agreed to stay with me and not run away.  Divisions 9 and 10 were close on his heels when they arrived at the library.  I brought him out to see them and read the letter he had written to them.

After school, I took the gingerbread boy up to Grouse Mountain.  He will stay in the gingerbread village there until Santa’s reindeer, Dancer and Vixen, can bring him back to Gingerbread Land.

What an exciting week!

Thank you to Ms. Lawder for use of the photos of this memorable event.

Today we had a visit from the BC Lions!  At an assembly they spoke to us about how team work, determination and striving for success can help us reach our goals whatever they may be.  Thank you to Solomon Elimimian #56, Dante March #31 and Jovan Olafioye #63 for your inspirational message and for signing so many autographs!

Last Wednesday South Slope/BCSD celebrated Halloween in fine style.  The primary students started off the day with a parade.  Later many classes had celebrations in their classrooms.  BCSD intermediate students organized games and activities for the younger students.  Divisions 1 and 2 had a dance in the gym.  It was an super spooky day!

 

Tomorrow is Drop Everything And Read day. Don’t forget to wear your pajamas and join us right after lunch for at least 20 minutes of reading. We will be joining schools around the province as we celebrate the power and joy of reading!

We were excited to host graphic novelist Scott Chantler at our school this past Tuesday.  Divisions 4, 15, 16, and 17 were the lucky students who got to hear his presentation and learn more about the art of writing a graphic novel.  Marissa, a big fan from Division 17, introduced Scott and then he began his presentation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, he talked to us about the differences between a comic book (series of stories, shorter periodical)  and a graphic novel (one story, longer, published as a book).  But they both are considered part of the “Comics” genre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

He then read us a script from his new book, The Captive Prince, and showed us the panels at the same time.  Some of his original ideas in the script stayed the same; some changed.

 

 

 

 

 

Some students had a copy of his book and read along.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many students had prepared powerful questions for Scott.  We learned that he announced to his mom at age 6 that he wanted to draw comics.

One of the highlights was when he drew the characters from his series: Dessa, Topper and Fisk.  Shannon said, “He makes it look so easy!” And indeed he did.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to Scott and Ilona at the Vancouver Writer’s Festival for making this great event possible.

Were you at the presentation?  What was your favourite part?