Monday, 18 October 2021

Festival du Livre Fundraising Update, Oct. 18, 2021

Festival du Livre Update:

Day 3 (Oct 14th) at the Festival du Livre, Bastion Bobcats plus teachers bought a combined $944 worth of books - wow!  The Festival du Livre website shows a total of 54 books purchased. 


Therefore, our grand total less taxes is $2439!  Our goal was to reach $2500, so we were just $61 short, but overall we did fantastic.  Thank you Bobcats!  


Our fundraising efforts means that Mme M can spend just over $1000 on new Scholastic French books for our school library - that’s very exciting!


A reminder that the English book fair is in five weeks, Monday, Nov. 29th, to Thursday, Dec. 2nd = 4 days of yummy Scholastic books to explore and potentially buy. 


In the meantime, keep reading ...as Dr Seuss would say


Thursday, 7 October 2021

Festival du Livre / Bastion Scholastic Book Fair, Oct. 12th-14th, 2021

 

Festival du Livre / Scholastic Fundraising Bookfair, Oct 12-14., 2021


What: Book fair fundraiser - located in the Bastion library are the French books; online are both French and English book options (all orders shipped to the school and then they will be delivered to the classrooms). When: 

In-Person Sales: Tue/Wed/Thu

Before school         7:30 am to bell - max. 10 people in the library (parents as well)

Big Recess 11:27-12:00 - grade groupings by day:

Tue = k-3

Wed = grd 4-5

Thu = k-5

After School 2:12 - 4pm pending parent volunteer availability (parents as well)

Scheduled library classes regular schedule for students and their teachers

Digital Sales: 24/7 access Oct. 5th-14th (see below for web link)


Note: THURSDAY, Oct. 14th (the last day), 3pm closure and book fair pack up 


Where:

In Person: La Bibliothèque Élémentaire de Bastion / Bastion Elementary Library

Digitally: Click on the Library tab on the Bastion homepage or go directly to https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5163221


COVID PROTOCOLS FOR IN-PERSON SHOPPING:

  • Maximum ten shoppers at a time 

  • Adults (before or after school sales times) sign in at the office or at the library entrance for potential contract tracing

  • Shoppers aged kindergarten and older are to wear masks

  • Students - Wash or sanitize hands before entering the library
    Adults - wash or sanitize hands before signing in & then entering the library



Festival du Livre Needs:

Teacher-librarian Ms. Shannon Murrells-Allaway needs parent volunteers as cashiers, and door greeters (re COVID protocols) for all shifts at the book fair and for the Thu., 3pm pack up:


Volunteer Schedule for Festival du Livre

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Clean Up Volunteer Schedule & Tasks, Thu. Oct 14th, 3-4:15’sih pm (pending # of volunteers) 

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Contact teacher-librarian Shannon Murrells-Allaway re volunteering &/or questions smurrell@sd83.bc.ca  


Thank you for spreading the word about this exciting fundraiser. 

The English book fair will be
Mon., Nov. 29th - Thu., Dec. 2nd.



Saturday, 2 October 2021

School Terry Fox Run, Oct. 6th, 2021, Élémentaire Bastion / Bastion Elementary

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Each year Bastion Elementary / École Élémentaire Bastion and most SD83 schools participate in The Terry Fox National School Run Day to honour this incredible Canadian as well as raise awareness and funds to reduce cancer.    

Bastion's annual run is Wed., Oct 6th this year.

If you would like to donate, you can do so through the Terry Fox Foundation or at Bastion Elementary. 

RESOURCES:

Our Bastion Learning Commons Alexandria library database has close to twenty  Terry Fox resources about this young man in English et aussi en Français.

The story of Terry Fox for kids (2:34)

 #TerryFox #TerryFoxDay #TerryFoxhistory





(8:50)  Terry Ran a marathon ... every single day!

The marathon is a long-distance running race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26.219 miles, or 26 miles 385 yards), usually run as a road race.


Terry Fox and Me Story Time with Mary Beth Leatherdale (11:41)
our Bastion Elementary Library has this book



Part 1 (13:34)
Note: If you decide to find and watch Part 2 & 3 on the internet,
the videos do contain some swearing.


Courage by Bernard Waber read by Aymie 
What are your definitions or examples of courage?
Most would agree: Courage is to try to run across Canada with a prosthetic leg at the age of 18.