Our annual Book Fair was held last week. Once again, parent volunteers, library assistants and the hundreds of students and parents who visited the fair and bought books made this annual event a terrific success!
Library assistants stapled letters to book fair flyers, and delivered them to classrooms. They put up signs asking for parent volunteers, [...]
I recently learned about Wordle, which bills itself as a toy for generating “word clouds” from text. I created this from the words in FernFolio’s tag cloud. How lovely that the word students features so prominently!
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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 [...]
Prior to this year, I had never managed to get tickets for the Silver Birch and Red Maple Awards. Every year, I would call the ticket box office several times and get a busy signal and then, before I ever got through to a sales person, would learn that all the tickets were sold. But [...]
