Samson High students led by their music teacher Mr. Garvey Soosay performed on May 31 at the Ermineskin School Library to launch the Imagine TD Summer Reading Club.
Join the TDSRC http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Samson High School students performed RockSchool Alive
Samson High students led by their music teacher Mr. Garvey Soosay performed on May 31 at the Ermineskin School Library to launch the Imagine TD Summer Reading Club.
AR reading coach
Reading Coach Keri with her students. These students achieved their reading goals. There was a neck to neck race for the AR Reading Rewards Party. Readers are Leaders pool party is for June 12.Join the TDSRC http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Welcome Helpers
Welcome Helpers
Imagine, you are a school librarian, now
- Say to your friends, "See you on Wednesday, July 4th at 1 pm"
- Start saying!
Record your observations.
- How many times did you say the welcome message?
- How did you feel being a school librarian?
Attendance helpers
Attendance Helpers
Imagine, you are a school librarian, now
- Pick a symbol that you would like to mark with when a student enters the library: ☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼►◄↕‼¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔▲▼
- Start marking!
- Make a tally at the end
- Record your observations.
- How many students came to the library today?
- How many minutes did you help?
- How did you feel being a school librarian?
Sustained Silent Reading programs (SSR)
SSR programs have a variety of names:
High Intensity Practice (HIP)
Positive Outcomes While Enjoying Reading (POWER)
Free Volunteer Reading (FVR)
Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading (USSR)
Sustained Quiet Reading Time (SQUIRT)
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR)
Fun Reading Every Day (FRED)
Join the TDSRC http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/
High Intensity Practice (HIP)
Positive Outcomes While Enjoying Reading (POWER)
Free Volunteer Reading (FVR)
Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading (USSR)
Sustained Quiet Reading Time (SQUIRT)
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR)
Fun Reading Every Day (FRED)
Join the TDSRC http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/
Sunday, 27 May 2012
TD Summer Reading Club update
Students made a list of things they would like to do this summer.
1. Visit and evaluate author websites http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/2012/05/series.html
2. Share stories http://storylab4.blogspot.ca/
http://storylabconnection.blogspot.ca/
The Story Lab Connection
What's The Story Lab Project?
The Story Lab project was designed to build on the success of the UK’s national Summer Reading Challenge (SRC). This programme encourages children to continue reading during the UK’s long summer holidays. The theme for the 2012 SRC is StoryLab - a special laboratory where new stories are created.
Bournemouth Libraries decided to build on this idea by designing a programme of events and activities based on stories. The StoryLab project is all about stories - children reading more of them, mixing and experimenting, collecting and sharing, creating and transmitting them. Through remixing and reinterpreting traditional tales the children will produce new stories from old. As well as having storytellers involved in the project, the schools in Bournemouth and Poole can choose whether to tell their stories in printed form or through dance, music or drama. Each school, or class, will select an artist in a different medium to work with the children on their stories.
Bournemouth Libraries was keen that the project should be a global one, with links to the Olympics and the Cultural Olympiad’s Literature and Libraries strand which aims to inspire creativity across all forms of culture, especially among young people. Each local school has been paired with an overseas partner so that they can swap and share stories. We hope they will also discover much about each other and each other’s countries.
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Librarians Report for the month of May
Librarians Report
Dear Parents, aunties/uncles and kokoms/mosoms;
We celebrated birds by making bird feeder, swan puppets, bird mazes, bird sounds, and listened to stories about birds. Please visit the following page and watch our students learning about our feathered friends. http://birddaycelebration.blogspot.ca
Our 5S class is connecting with Kincumber Public School in Australia. Kincumber is one of many lovely suburbs of Gosford. Our students have made postcards for their friends in Australia. www.gosford.nsw.gov.au We will keep you informed about how the children exchange information across the world. This connection was made via International Federation of Library Associations Sister Libraries. Coming soon are three cool events.
· Thursday, May 31, at 11:50-12:10 pm, Mr. Garvey Soosay and his students from Samson High School will do a Rock and Roll performance at the library. They will also sing Cree songs.
· Tuesday, June 12, is the Accelerated Reading Program Reward party, at the Leduc Pool.
· Wednesday, July 4, 12:30 pm TD Summer Reading Club (TD SRC). I would like to invite you to bring your children to the library for the TD SRC. Our school library will be open from 12:30-4:30 pm on the following Wednesdays in July and August.
July 4, 11, 18*, 25
August 8, 15, 22
* Wednesday, July 18, COW Bus will be coming to our school.
Read more at http://schoollibraryservices.blogspot.ca/
What questions do you have about your children's library program?
Manisha Khetarpal
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Elelmentary School Reading activities
Mark Twain Elementary School in Niles aims to promote summer reading and fun, informative ways to keep kids busy during the summer - 'make and take' session. The students will be making a journal and a bookmark." http://librarypathwaysandfootprints.blogspot.ca/2012/05/school-to-explore-what-summer-has-to.html
To foster reading during Summer 2012, multiple community partners created One Jackson...Many Readers. Research shows that students who read throughout the summer continue to grow academically. http://librarypathwaysandfootprints.blogspot.ca/2012/05/to-foster-reading-during-summer-2012.html
Racine Reads: Dream Big! was developed as a holistic approach to literacy advancement. A recent study reported that the average elementary school student read 40 books each school year, yet only 34 percent of students are deemed "proficient" in their reading level. http://librarypathwaysandfootprints.blogspot.ca/2012/05/racine-reads-dream-big-was-developed-as.html
Barrow Elementary, media center is the hub of the school. For example, pre-kindergarten students used studio equipment to write and film weather forecasts; kindergartners researched various topics using databases; first-graders created movies about the seasons; third-graders researched and created designs for a new state park, fourth-graders created book trailers advertising authors and fifth-graders taught social studies to one another. http://librarypathwaysandfootprints.blogspot.ca/2012/05/barrow-elementary-media-center-is-hub.html
School districts and community partners are doing book drives this summer
http://librarypathwaysandfootprints.blogspot.ca/2012/05/school-districts-and-community-partners.html
http://librarypathwaysandfootprints.blogspot.ca/2012/05/school-districts-and-community-partners.html
Join the Summer Reading Program at the Ermineskin School Library
Students who read, succeed!
Students who read, succeed!
During the week of June 11-14; each student will receive a reading package, which includes:
1. An invitation for each child
2. A full-colour poster for each child
3. An activity booklet for each child that contains a story, book suggestions for all ages, crosswords, riddles, crafts, recipes and log sheets. The story on the first page of the activity booklet describes the theme. The activity book also includes space for the stickers, and a game board. The log sheets are for recording titles of books read over the summer.
Our school library will be open from 12:30-4:30 pm on the following Wednesdays in July and August.
July 4, 11, 18*, 25
August 8, 15, 22
* Wednesday, July 18, COW Bus will be coming to our school.
Join the TD Summer Reading Club at the Ermineskin Elementary School.
http://schoollibraryservices.blogspot.ca/2012/05/join-td-summer-reading-club-this-summer.html
Monday, 14 May 2012
Shelisha is the winner of the May 14 My favourite word draw
Students wrote their favourite words and dropped them in the Word House. 227 words were entered. The winner was Shelisha. The prize was a Turtle Float. http://birddaycelebration.blogspot.ca/
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Join the TD Summer Reading Club this summer at your school library
Every summer kids can improve their reading skills and reduce summer learning loss while having fun. Your school library staff will develop a wide range of exciting activities around a different theme to help students enjoy reading during the summer.
Students, 12 and under, who register with their school library for the TD Summer Reading Club receive a poster, stickers and an activity book all free as a part of their reading kit.
Imagine a summer of books, games and activities that will give free rein to young people's imaginations. Be sure not to miss the TD Summer Reading Club. It will be wonderful and fantastical.
Join the Summer Reading Club today at your school library.
Read more at http://www.td-club-td.ca/index-e.html
http://storylab4.blogspot.ca/
Students, 12 and under, who register with their school library for the TD Summer Reading Club receive a poster, stickers and an activity book all free as a part of their reading kit.
Imagine a summer of books, games and activities that will give free rein to young people's imaginations. Be sure not to miss the TD Summer Reading Club. It will be wonderful and fantastical.
Join the Summer Reading Club today at your school library.
Read more at http://www.td-club-td.ca/index-e.html
http://storylab4.blogspot.ca/
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Reading achievers and medal winners May 8
Accelerated Reading Program ARP is a success because students are reading and then doing tests on the AR software.
The Library as Genius Bar
May 7, 2012 By
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/05/k-12/the-library-as-genius-bar/
In Mercy High's iPad program, librarian Linda Behen offers tech support and more
When the class of 2016 enters Mother of Mercy High School this fall, each of the 135 freshmen will receive a new iPad. That's part of the school's mission: to help students access the technology best suited to their needs, according to Linda Behen, the school's library media specialist.
At Mercy, an all-girls Catholic school in Cincinnati, OH, they call this "tech-agility," says Behen (pictured). She helped support a spring 2012 pilot in which 20 current freshmen received iPads.http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/05/k-12/the-library-as-genius-bar/
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Print materials and elements part of TD Summer Reading Program 2012
The print materials that are part of the program include:
• A full-colour poster for each child who registers in the program.
• Nine colour stickers for each child. Stickers can be given out each time
reading is accomplished and recorded or they can be given out all at once
depending on library staff preference.
• An activity booklet for each child that contains a story, book suggestions
for all ages, crosswords, riddles, crafts, recipes and log sheets. The story
on the first page of the activity booklet describes the theme. The log
sheets are for recording titles of books read over the summer. Additional
log sheets can be downloaded from the Forms section on the website.
This year, the activity book also includes space for the stickers, and a
game board.
• New this year is a preschool activity booklet, which provides an age appropriate
booklist, activities related to the six Ready for Reading skills
(see page 29), and also a matching game in the centrefold intended to be
used with the stickers.
• An invitation for each child that is designed according to the theme.
Invitations can be distributed to schools, sent to community outreach
locations or given to children who visit the library. If possible, invitations
should be distributed before the end of the school year in June.
• All of the above print materials are free to children who register for the
program.
Page 9 of TD SRP manual
• A full-colour poster for each child who registers in the program.
• Nine colour stickers for each child. Stickers can be given out each time
reading is accomplished and recorded or they can be given out all at once
depending on library staff preference.
• An activity booklet for each child that contains a story, book suggestions
for all ages, crosswords, riddles, crafts, recipes and log sheets. The story
on the first page of the activity booklet describes the theme. The log
sheets are for recording titles of books read over the summer. Additional
log sheets can be downloaded from the Forms section on the website.
This year, the activity book also includes space for the stickers, and a
game board.
• New this year is a preschool activity booklet, which provides an age appropriate
booklist, activities related to the six Ready for Reading skills
(see page 29), and also a matching game in the centrefold intended to be
used with the stickers.
• An invitation for each child that is designed according to the theme.
Invitations can be distributed to schools, sent to community outreach
locations or given to children who visit the library. If possible, invitations
should be distributed before the end of the school year in June.
• All of the above print materials are free to children who register for the
program.
Page 9 of TD SRP manual
Monday, 7 May 2012
May 11th is Bird Day celebration: bird feeders, puppets, sounds, and books
Our students are making bird feeders, swan puppets, writing words and putting them in the Word Houses, reading books and stories about birds. http://birddaycelebration.blogspot.ca/
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