Scholastic Book Fair, Dec. 4-8th, Mon-Fri, 2017

SALES December 4-8th, 2017:

1. During Library Learning Commons Classes (LLC)

AND

2. Outside of class time:

Mon - Fri

7:45 - 8:10

9:55 - 10:12

11:55 - 12:45

2:15 - 4pm except

Friday sales will end at 3pm

for the "Pack it up, Clean it up, Ship it back" crew!

Sale Theme Days by Student Grade:

Monday = Grade 4 & 5s and Monday library classes (Mr. Styles & Caner, & Mme Weir)

Tue & Wed = primary classes kindergarten to grade 3

Thur & Fri = any and all grades

PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:

- Book Fair Parent Volunteer Schedule
- Promotion Coordinator

- Cashiers

- "Pack it up, Clean it up, Ship it back" crew - Friday, 3pm - 4'ish pending #'es of helpers
- Posters: Thank you to Joanne Johnson for organizing the posters.

Scholastic Book Fair Flyer:

Scholastic Book Fair Book Reviews:

Kids and Family READING REPORT, Canadian Edition

The Scholastic fund raiser is a great way to get extra books into our Library Learning Commons (LLC).  With approximately 120 students participating in the "200 Nights of Reading," it is the French and English book fairs that will make May celebration book prizes possible.

Thanks for coming out to support this much loved fund raiser. 

I looking forward to seeing & working with you! 

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Kindies Learning About Wild Rabbits, Winter, Hibernation ... Wondering ...

Bastion kindergarten students are just learning about fiction vs non-fiction in the library.  They have been enjoying "E" Everybody picture books since September, but we are now moving onto
discovery / information books.

We are being detectives looking at book "call numbers" finding the "E" for picture books vs the number and letters for non-fiction information books.  I showed Ss the difference and invited them to sign out a non-fiction book today.

Ask your child if he or she chose an "Everybody Picture Book" or a non-fiction information book.

This week and last we learned about head lice from a storytelling book and an information book:
Story-telling "E" everybody book Bugs in my Hair David Shannon.


         E
      SHA

vs

the information book Lice are Lousy: All About Headlice by Margaret Tsubakiyama & illustrator Anne Canaveri Geeen


           616.5     (Dermatology dewey classification)
            TSU


Next week we'll look at wild rabbits (599.32) (rather than domestic ones [636.932) once again through storytelling and information books:
Storytelling book Snowboarding Bunny's: Mountain Adventure by Bonita Forsyth


                      E
                   FOR

vs

Nonfiction Welcome to the World of Rabbits and Hares by Diane Swanson


                      599.32
                       SWA

Below are some digital resources to further our learning about Arctic Hares:

by Wildlife Facts (3:21)

Arctic Fox, Arctic Hare, & Ptarmigan (4:29)

SciShow Kids

Published on Dec 9, 2015

The above video got me wondering about what else happens to animals in winter?  
I wanted to know more about hibernation.  
Here's another SciShow Kids video about this topic:

Groundhog Hibernation (3:46)

And that is exactly what happens when we wonder about the world!  Questions pop into our heads & then we go out to find answers from sources such as books, digital resources, magazines, videos, experts, and more.  

While being entertained by a good story is terrific, learning about the world and all of the amazing things in it is also an incredible experience.  

Thanks for learning with me today.  Mme Murrells-Allaway (aka Mme M)
Kindergarten Library Learning Commons day is each Tuesday.  Currently we are signing out one book per session, but we will increase that to one fiction and one non-fiction in Dec. or Jan.

A reminder that 

BASTION FAMILY LITERACY DAY 

is each Wed after school 

2:15-2:45.  

Drop by to create an account with parent volunteer Morgan Brandle.  You can sign out up to 

5 books on your family account.  

Remembrance Day & Peace, 2017

Source
Nov., 11th, Remembrance Day - a very mixed emotions day. 

  Halifax Seaport Farmer's Market Flash Mob produced by Veterans Affairs Canada.

Veterans Matter - Mobile Application

                                Tales of Animals in War

                         Tower of London Poppies, 2014

More BBC pictures of ceramic artist Paul Cummins' work

BBC Video of the Tower of London Poppies

Source

Poppies at The Tower of London, entitled "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red."  The work's title is taken from the first line of a poem by an unknown World War I soldier, which begins: The blood swept lands and seas of red, / Where angels dare to tread / (Source)

How the poppies were made

The poem that inspired the title for Paul Cummins' work:

Written by an unknown soldier poet it reads:

“The blood swept lands and seas of red,

Where angels dare to tread.

As God cried a tear of pain as the angels fell,

Again and again.

As the tears of mine fell to the ground

To sleep with the flowers of red

As any be dead

My children see and work through fields of my

Own with corn and wheat,

Blessed by love so far from pain of my resting

Fields so far from my love.

It be time to put my hand up and end this pain

Of living hell. to see the people around me

Fall someone angel as the mist falls around

And the rain so thick with black thunder I hear

Over the clouds, to sleep forever and kiss

The flower of my people gone before time

To sleep and cry no more

I put my hand up and see the land of red,

This is my time to go over,

I may not come back

So sleep, kiss the boys for me”

2014