Virtual Scholastic Book Fair (French & English), Mon., April 11th - Sat., April 23rd, 2022

 

Save The Date!

Dear families,

Mark your calendars! The fun and excitement of a Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school!  Scholastic has developed a Virtual Book Fair to provide an easy way to explore Scholastic literary treasures, as well as raise some money for your school library. 

So save the date! Our Scholastic Virtual Book Fair will take place from Mon., April 11th to Sat., April 23rd, 2022

When it’s time to shop, visit our school’s Virtual Book Fair site using the below link (also located on the Bastion Homepage Library tab, and from Mr. Menzie's post on the Bastion homepage):

https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5178329 or click HERE


Before our Fair begins, click the link to:

•   SAVE it to your browser

•   WATCH videos of popular new titles

•   PREVIEW our Featured Books

 
Watch for news leading up to our Scholastic Virtual Book Fair!

 Happy reading, Mme. Murrells-Allaway, aka Mme M.

 

April is National Poetry Month / Avril est Le Mois Nationale de la Poésie, 2022

April is National Poetry Month

Sample, taste, and delight in some poetry: from your Bastion library (poetry / poesie) or Okanagan Regional Libraries.  Or try from digital sources: I have listed a few for you below.

Collect, &/or write some poetry for Poem in Your Pocket Day (PIYP Day), Friday, April 29th.  This poetry sharing day is an international movement inviting us to select a poem, carry it with us, and share it with other at schools, bookstores, libraries, local shops, parks, workplaces, coffee shops, street corners, and more.  You can read/share a poem or give it away!

See below and click on the the following link to learn about our Bastion Poem in Your Pocket Day, 2021:

   

For your French pocket poem needs (for both students and adults),
check out the 2018 booklet created by 

La poésie partout for La Journée du poème à porter.  

HUMOROUS POETRY:

- "The Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll

"Ickle Me Tickle Me ..." by Shel Silverstein

Crocodile's Toothache (By Shel Silverstein) (2:19)

POETRY TYPES:

HAIKU:

     - Haiku from ABCTeach.com written mostly by grade 3 students 

     - Bastion Student Haiku, Kidsku - students please send your Haikus to Mme Me if you want to be added to this link: smurrrell@sd83.bc.ca 

FREE VERSE: poetry that doesn't rhyme, but rather sounds like regular speech

"Firefly" by grade 1 student, Dylan read in Writers in Schools

Someone brought me a firefly.

Sparkling and glittering like a yellow crystal.

Looking like a star in the sky.

Cool in your hand to see.

It flies very fast and the buzz sounds like music.

It tickles as it crawls on my arm.

My heart turns into a flashlight.

Someone brought me a firefly, and it flashed away.

"Dear 14-Year-Old Valeria" by Valeria, grade 5 read in Writers in Schools

A poem for you:  

Singing is your favorite melody.

You found out what friendship means and where it lights up.

Everyone and everything inspires you to keep moving on.

So keep moving on.

The day and night are your best companions.

You see the world as not dangerous but as freedom

and if you ever speak up, know that it’s going to change

how you live and who you are.

You want to be free and escape to a place of delight.

As day and night combine, you will light up the sky.

"Exam Day" by local teacher Ms. Shawn Bird

In the class room

the fan makes the loudest noise

second to the crinkle of paper

turning, shuffling.

Shifting bodies.

deep breaths,

inhaling fortitude,

exhaling a last,

desperate hope.

"Begin Again" by Ms. Shawn Bird

See the tense bodies, tentative smiles,

step through the door into new beginnings,

slip into a new desk, a new view,

ready?

Stretch understandings,

begin again!

DIGITAL POETRY COLLECTIONS:

- 70 Must-Share Poems for Your Elementary Classroom by We are Teachers

- Poetry for Kids collected by poets.org

YOUTH SLAM OR SPOKEN-WORD POETS:

Asha Christensen at TEDxKids@SMU 2012 (2:41)

"The Miracle of Morning" by Amanda Gorman (2:22)

Solli Raphael, 12 becomes the youngest winner of Australian Poetry Slam (2:30)

Amanda Gorman reads "The Hill We Climb," USA Inauguration Poem, 

Jan 20, 2021 (5:52)

Lesson Plan Ideas for Educators:

- Education World: Spring Poetry Unit

- Kids' Poems: How to Introduce Poetry to Elementary School Children by Scholastic

A Poem for Adults Modelling for Children How to Be Their Best:
Thank you to Mme Isaac for sharing this Youtube version of "Desiderata" with me - beautiful.

Maple Sugar Making Time Across Canada - "Winspriing" / "Prinver"

 

Sugaring off is happening now (Feb & March) in Central and Eastern Canada, and even British Columbia - as we shift from winter into spring and the temperature rises.  Ms. Ollinger's class called this time of year "Winspring" et la classe de Mme Valerie ils l'ont nommé cette fois "Prinver!"  Excellent!

Beyond knowing that maple syrup is delicious, what else do you know about this amazing tree gift?

Aboriginals learned about this maple tree nectar & share their knowledge with immigrants:

CBC Archives shows the history of maple sugar production from Aboriginals to Canadian immigrants.

• The Legend of Chief Woksis
• Industrie du sirop d'érable Enclopedie Canadienne
• Maple Syrup Industry Canadian Encyclopedia 
• Wonderopolis:
• How Do You Tap a Maple Tree
• How Do Trees Make Sap
• A connection to French Toast - Where Does French Toast Come From?

QUEBEC:

Le goût et la couleur du sirop d'éreble? - UN CHEF À LA CABANE - Capsule - S8E079

(4:07)  (Discusses molecules!)

ONTARIO:

Ontario maple sugar producer: Fultons Pancake House & Sugar Bush, 
Pakenham, Ontario.  (5:35)




"Tap My Trees" aims to teach hobbyists and home schooling families how to make maple syrup.





"Tap My Trees" reviews the supplies you will need.

Faits de Le Sirop D’Érable / Maple Syrup Facts:

• Maple syrup is one of Canada's most popular commodities and accounts for 85% of the world's total supply (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) (Feb., 2016).
• Several Canadian provinces produce maple syrup; Québec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia account for most of Canada's maple syrup production. Maple festivals abound wherever syrup is made.  There are 17 syrup-producing states in the U.S. 
• The province of Quebec recognized as the leading producer of maple syrup worldwide
• Les Produits et le Terre D'Origine
• Histoire et Origines: La Légende de Nokomis
• SIROP D'ÉRABLE PUR : 60 ml (1/4 tasse) vs Sirop Habitant
  • Calories : 220
  • Glucides : 54 g
  • Sucres : 48 g
  • Riboflavine : 25 %
  • Manganèse : 15 %
  • Calcium, magnésium et zinc : 4 %
  SIROP HABITANT : 60 ml (1/4 tasse)
  • Calories : 213
  • Glucides : 53 g
  • Sucres : 47 g
  • Riboflavine : 0 %
  • Manganèse  : 0 %
  • Calcium, magnésium et zinc : 0 %
  
  "Comme on peut le constater, côté calories et sucres, ces deux produits sont très semblables. Toutefois, le sirop Habitant ne renferme ni vitamines ni minéraux.
  
  Liste d’ingrédients
  Si le sirop d’érable ne contient que du sirop d’érable, la liste d’ingrédients du sirop d’imitation s’allonge. Celle qui rassemble plusieurs ingrédients, dont le glucose-fructose, le sucre, le sirop de maïs et la cassonade, compte aussi des additifs, du colorant caramel et un arôme artificiel d’érable.
  
  Antioxydants? Indice glycémique plus faible? Rien ne s’applique à ce sirop d’imitation! Sans parler de la saveur qui ne rappelle en rien le délicieux sirop d’érable bien de chez nous! "(Source: Le Journal de Montréal)

Festival du Sucre D'Érable et Cabane à Sucre / Maple Syrup Festivals & Sugar Shacks - Fevrier et Mai / February-May

• Le Répertoire des Restaurateurs de Cabanes à Sucre du Québec - (avec une carte)
• New Brunswick
• Ontario

Poesie/Poem
"Maple Feast"
In the big-flaked sugar-snow
The crystal-gathering sledges go.


Stumbling through silver to my knees,
I shout among the maple trees,


Tilt gleaming buckets icy cold
Till I am full as I can hold


Of clear bright sap, until I feel
Like a maple tree from head to heel!


Then to the sugarhouse I run
Where syrup, golden as the sun,


Is boiling in the crisp march air.
And I, as daft as a baby bear,


Eat, till my buttons burst asunder
From maple sweetness, maple wonder!


By Frances Frost from Sing a Song of Seasons: Poems about Holidays, Vacation Days, and Days to go to School. (821.008 BRE)


RECETTES / RECIPES:

• Maple Butter, Blueberry Moose, Sugar Pie, Chocolate Maple Cake, Glaze for meat and fish
• Recettes par Maurice Jeanotte

TEACHER RESOURCES:

• Spring - Ziigwan DVD, 10 mins (SSD0924, RSC)