On Monday at our assembly we recognized 150 students and staff for their participation in our home reading club. Congratulations everyone! We also gave away books to some lucky winners. We will reach our next milestone of 200 nights on April 14th.
I hope everyone enjoys a restful and rejuvenating spring break. I know I’m looking forward to reading lots of great books. I hope you are, too!
Happy Love Your School Library Day!
We all know February 14th is Valentines Day, but did you know it is also Love Your School Library Day? This week I invited our school to share what they love about our library.
What do I love about our library?
- I love it when students rush to choose books after my book talks.
- I love it when someone finds just the book they were looking for.
- I love it when students put books on hold because they just can’t wait to read them.
- I love it when classes are reading in the library and they don’t want to leave. Sorry teachers.
- I love it when someone comes to share a book they’ve written and wants to add it to our student author basket.
- I love it when we’re in the middle of an inquiry project and the students are so excited about learning.
- I love it when I have to tell my library monitors to stop reading and get back to work.
- I love my parent volunteers who make everything run smoothly. Thank you!
- I love that this list could go on forever.
- I love being the teacher librarian at South Slope/BCSD!
Happy Love Your School Library Day! Please come and visit to find a book you’ll love.
Mystery Readers
During Literacy Week many staff and students dressed up as their favourite character from a book. Can you guess who these mystery readers are?
Guest readers and ASL Storytellers
Today we had some very special guests visited South Slope/BCSD. Guest readers and storytellers visited all of the classes in the school. This event is part of many exciting literacy week activities taking part at our school. Thanks to all of our guests for your time and commitment to literacy.
Our ASL storytellers were: Eileen Edgar, Hester Hussey, Joanne Robinson, Leila Fredland and Terry Maloney.
Guest Readers: M. Vlasic, Peter Dubinsky, Constable Yip, Raj Chouhan, Ron Hall, Heather Hart, Patricia Finlay, Kim Pearson, Kim Block and Ben Pare.
Literacy Week 2016
Canadian Picture Book of the Year
ASL Storytime at Burnaby Public Library Dec. 19th
Please note that the December storytime has changed from Dec 12th to the 19th.
TD Grade One Book Giveaway
It was an exciting week for the Grade One students at South Slope/BCSD. Each of them received a copy of Mr. Zinger’s Hat written by Cary Fagan, illustrated by Dušan Petričić and published by Tundra Books. This book giveaway is organized by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
“The book is to be taken home by each child to keep and to read with their parents. This far-reaching annual book giveaway program, which provides over 500,000 books to Grade One children across Canada, is fully funded by TD Bank Group. The program is intended to encourage literacy and reading for young children and supports the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s mandate of bringing great Canadian books to Canadian children and to promote a love of reading and a passion for books.”
First we read the book and then students received their own personal copies. We hope families enjoy reading the book at home, too!
DEAR Day
October 26, 2015 is the 9th anniversary of the BC Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) challenge. Dear started as a small challenge between school libraries in 2007 and has since grown to involve many participants across the province. The simple, but powerful idea of DEAR is to promote the importance of literacy by having as many students and adults as possible read at the same time on the same day.
Today we celebrated DEAR by reading after lunch for 20 minutes. Everyone dropped everything and brought their books to the hallways, classrooms, the library and more. 
The goal for October 26, 2015 is to have EVERYONE in BC put down their work, turn off their computer screens, pick up a book, magazine or newspaper and read for 20 minutes.
Reading is a beautiful thing!
Reading Club begins today!
Today students and staff at South Slope/BCSD begin the Reading Club. Every student and staff member at South Slope/ BCSD is automatically a member of the club. This year we want to continue to put the focus on recognition and reading for fun!
Your child received a new reading record form today. When the student completes this form, s/he returns the form to school and receives a new form.
Students will be recognized on a bulletin board in the school and at our assemblies. Students who complete 250 nights of reading before the end of June will have a book dedicated to them and placed in our school library.
Our goal this year is to Read for Fun! Research has shown that children who read for pleasure, read what they like and read often, do significantly better in school. Parents can help by encouraging their child to read every night (or be read to) for a minimum of 15 minutes and then sign the reading record form.
Thank you for helping your child develop a lifetime habit of reading! Please come and see Mrs. Araujo in the library if you have any questions or comments.