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Poem in your pocket day

We have celebrating poetry in the library and in the school during the month of April.  Today was a very special day: Poem in your pocket day.  Everyone was invited to put a poem in their pocket to share with someone else.  Today classes shared their poems with each other, their buddy classes and more.

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Some classes also went to David Grey Park to share their poems there.  Click here to see a great video on Ms. Shuster’s blog about our day.

We have lots of great poetry books in the library.  Come and check one out any time.  Here are a few of the new books we have that celebrate the great art of poetry.

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Reading Club reaches 150 Nights!

  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! 

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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.

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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?

  

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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.

 

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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.

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“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!

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