Here are some pictures of Chester that kindergarten children have drawn!
After reading Melanié Watt’s Chester, students came up with some of their own Chester stories!
One day a man was going for a walk……
Blah, blah, blah… When’s lunch?
… in the park…..
…. then Chester took over.
Chester, stop! keep going.
Stop!
Says you!
The man walking his BIG FIERCE dog [...]
After reading , students in Kindergarten to Grade 3 created their own superhero cards, making illustrations of themselves in superhero costume, thinking up their superhero name, and listing their superhero powers.
Of course, if I could choose, I’d want to be able to become invisible, to be super smart, and to be able to fly. But I’m [...]
I created this at Wordle, where you can create beautiful word clouds from a blog, a poem, an essay, the possibilities are limitless!
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The Boys’ and Girls’ Book Clubs have finished reading their first books of the year, The Thief Lord and Inkheart, both by German children’s author extraordinaire Cornelia Funke. Book Club members have discussed characters, located secret villages and abandoned theatres using Google Map, explored a wide range of themes, and tried to find answers [...]
The books nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading programs were announced this past Monday. Each year, the nominations are greeted with a shiver of excitement by both students and their teachers.
Yesterday afternoon, after having wiggled my library budget around, and checked pockets for any loose change, I placed the [...]
On Monday, October 27th, Andy Stanton paid a visit to the school. Author of the Mr. Gum series and resident of London, Andy is in Toronto to take part in Harbourfront’s International Authors Series. We were fortunate to have Scooter Girl, a fun book and toy store for children, approach the school to arrange for [...]
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 [...]
