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Library News!
The Scholastics Bookfair was a great success with $4,024.31 in net sales, which translated to just over $1,600 worth of books for our school library.
I used these Scholastic dollars to pick out 126 new books for our school collection, and an additional 20 or so were given away as prizes.
Since September, almost 300 new or donated books have been added to our collection, and about 400 damaged and outdated books have been removed.
A school of readers! 744 books have been checked out since September!
Please return or renew all library books before the holidays!
Featured VRCS Literacy Champions of the Month
Ms. Adams is a rockstar of physical literacy and even signed up for a collaboration with the library this past month to help better instill the concepts of pathways and movement vocabulary using the book Tap, Tap, Tap, Dance, Dance, Dance! by Henre Tullet. Students were engaged with visualizing movement through illustrations, practicing those movements in their own bodies, and then creating their own illustrations and pathways of movement!
Did you know we have an author in the house?! A big congratulations to Ms. Visser on the official launch of her new book Ringette Girl (now available through all major book outlets). She saw a need for books about ringette when her daughter was looking for one, so she took it upon herself to write it! We are looking forward to reading this with classes in the library in connection with the ringette unit in phys. ed. in late Novemeber.
Featured VRCS Literacy Champions from Previous Months
September:
Ms. VanDyke spent countless hours this summer organizing her classroom library into genre specific baskets to make it easier for her students to find books that interest them! Furthermore, she lead the charge on "Dot Day" to create a gorgeous collaborative mural at the end of our main hallway, encourage all to "make their mark!"
Mrs. Cheverie hosted a "book tasting" in her class complete with chocolate chip muffins! Students learned about various genres of books and were asked to quickly skim through 5-6 books and jot down notes about genre, plot, and a rating of whether they want to read it this year.
All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. It is all we leave behind. We are not the things we accumulate. We are not the things we deem important. We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…
― Richard Wagamese (1955-2017)
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