Two of My Fav Poets for Kids - Two More Days of National Poetry Month

Douglas Florian

• Poetry book Ominbeasts

Shel Silverstein

• Bastion Elementary Shel Silverstein books

Esteemed Author Gordon Korman Joins Us At Bastion Today!

2:30pm to approximately 3:30pm join us in the library to talk to Gordon Korman through Skype!



Thank you to Red Cedar Young Reader's Choice Award program, Bastion students get to meet and talk to well-known author Gordon Korman.  Join us after school today!

• Gordon Korman's Official Web Site
• Red Cedar Author Info

Poem in Your Pocket Day, Thursday, April 27th, 2017

Poem in Your Pocket Day, Thursday, April 27th - join us.  Enjoy.

Ardent Librarian poems and resources for you.

#PoemInYourPocketDay
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Ms. Ardie Burnham Will Teach us About ORL's Online Databases April 18th, 2017

has amazing online databases (digital resources).

Ms. Ardie Burnham will be our guest speaker tomorrow teaching the grade 4 & 5 students about these quality resources.  Parents, staff and all Bastion Elementary community members welcome.

Okanagan Regional Library FaceBook Page

#NationalPoetryMonth and thus a library poem for you:

Enchantment

Stack by stack,
shelf by shelf,
I pick out books
all by myself.

Page by page,
line by line,
word by word,
I make books mine.

With a wave of a card
like a wizard’s right hand—
and an alphabet-alchemy,
life
is
just
grand.

—Jane Yolen (Source: the Booklist Reader)

April the Giraffe Had a Baby Boy, Sat., April 15, 2017

Live Cam at April The Giraffe Web Site

"April the Giraffe finally welcomed her fourth calf Saturday morning.

After weeks of waiting, the giraffe gave birth at Adventure Park in Harpursville, N.Y.

A zoo official said it was a "perfect delivery" and that the newborn calf was doing well. The zoo later confirmed the calf is male, and they are planning a contest to name their newest resident.

While the baby is April's fourth calf, it's the first baby giraffe for Adventure park. The family is rounded out by a 5-year-old giraffe named Oliver, the newborn's father." ...

... Giraffes typically give birth standing up, which means the newborn calf started out his life with a 6-foot drop to the ground, according to Animal Planet. While it may not sound like the most graceful way to enter the world, the fall breaks the amniotic sac, severs the umbilical cord and "most importantly, encourages the calf to take its first breaths" ...Within minutes, April's baby — likely around six feet tall, weighing between 100 and 150 pounds — will attempt to walk on his own. The newborn animal must learn to stand quickly so he can reach his mother to nurse.


April has been pregnant for about 16 months..." (New York Daily News).

Giraffe Poetry!

"The African Beauty- Giraffee"

Giraffe 

Tall, Spotty-Brown 

Chewing Leafy Trees 

Animal Dignity In Motion 

African-Beauty

By Sima Mittal (Poetry Soup)

"Stretchy Neck"

Behold the neck of a giraffe
Long enough to make you laugh
Can stretch over the fence in zoo
To find munchy leaves to chew
Of it's length I'm not even half!

By Joshua Lacey (Poetry Soup)

"The Giraffe"
The Giraffe is very tall
As tall as he could be
If it wasn't for his neck
He'd be quite short you see
By Dawn Drickman (Poetry Soup)

April is National Poetry Month / Avril est La Mois Nationale de la Poésie

April is Poetry Month. "In Time of Silver Rain" by Langston Hughes

Click on the picture for music clip & rain audio from

From the Unitarian Universalist hymnal “Singing The Living Tradition”

In Time Of Silver Rain

In time of silver rain

The earth puts forth new life again,

Green grasses grow

And flowers lift their heads,

And over all the plain

The wonder spreads

  Of Life,

  Of Life,

  Of life!

In time of silver rain

The butterflies lift silken wings

To catch a rainbow cry,

And trees put forth new leaves to sing

In joy beneath the sky

As down the roadway

Passing boys and girls

Go singing, too,

  In time of silver rain When spring

  And life

  Are new.

by Langston Hughes (Source: All Poetry)

Bastion Poetry Resources & Links