The Get Caught Reading Hall of Fame closed on May 30th. This year it surpassed previous records with 150 students, 91 Primary children, 47 Junior students and 12 Intermediate students! These 150 students read 14,000 picture storybooks and 2,000 novels, 16,000 books in all.
The Get Caught Reading Celebrations began on June 13th with the Primary [...]
By day eleven year-old Edgar labours in the fig groves tending the saplings, picking the highly prized ripe figs, and culling the oldest trees before they can become toxic, poisoning the groves where they stand and those who must touch them. By night, he rambles the hidden pathways among the fig trees and explores the [...]
At the start of a new school year, Ms. Wurtz hides an empty notebook in the class’ writing centre. On the first page of that notebook, she writes an invitation to her students to write and draw whatever they like, and adds that she will read their work at the end of every month. She [...]
My Arctic 1, 2, 3 is a counting book that celebrates the creatures of sea and land that inhabit the Arctic, the beauty of the tundra, and the Inuit who claim the region as their home. From polar bears on the hunt, to siksiks alert to the presence of Arctic foxes, to fishermen repairing a [...]
The Girls’ Book Club read Anne of Green Gables, in this the 100th anniversary year of the publication of LM Montgomery’s Canadian children’s classic. We enjoyed Anne’s bursts of enthusiasm, her wildly romantic and fanciful imagination, her fierce love of Diana, Miss Stacey, Mrs. Allen and Matthew, her equally fierce hatred of Gilbert and [...]
