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Looking for some suggestions for summer reading…

Canadian Children’s Book Centre Summer Reading

ALSC Summer Reading Lists 2016       

Burnaby Public Library Recommended Reading

100 Best Canadian Books for Children

Want to try some online reading on your home computer, tablet or ipod?

International Children’s Digital Library

Storyline Online

Tumblebooks and BookFlix are also great online reading resources available through the BPL databases.

Any questions?  Please come and see Mrs. Araujo in the library.  I would be happy to help you.

Our district has recently been given a trial subscription to the online reading site, Tumblebooks.  All the South Slope primary classes have visited the computer lab to learn how to access this site. We have also sent home notices to let families know how to access Tumblebooks at home.

Tumblebooks has many benefits for readers, including English Language Learners.  Listening to reading is one of the best ways for students to develop comprehension, fluency and, most importantly, experience the joy of reading.

Please see me in the library if you have any questions or comments.

Here is a quick video created by Ms. Shuster about Division 9’s experience:

Tumblebooks Listen to Reading from Lindsay on Vimeo.

  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! 

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.

During Literacy Week many staff and students dressed up as their favourite character from a book.  Can you guess who these mystery readers are?

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.

Please note that the December storytime has changed from Dec 12th to the 19th.

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!