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A school of readers! 1487 books have been checked out since September!
February is short but jam-packed with celebrations and awareness campaigns such as:
Groundhog Day
Valentine's Day
Winter Olympics
Black History Month
Lunar New Year
Pink Shirt Day
I do my best to represent each of the various events through our library space and keep students engaged and curious through interactive displays!
Featured VRCS Literacy Champions of the Month
Ms. Paquet (aka. AP) (Grade 5) is reigniting the joy of reading this month by allowing her students to choose what they read for school, and not limiting them to a specific genre, type, or reading level, but instead encouraging them to find books that will interest them and that they can read with a peer. Instead of large book clubs this year, students have formed small groups of 2-3 students, which has given them greater access to a wider selection of reading materials to choose from in the school library. It was so much fun working with students to help them find the right fit for their group!
Ms. Baldwin (Gr. 1) has been working hard to help her students learn to read with comprehension and fluency, with lots of small-group focused reading in class. She has also been helping them to develop their writing skills, and explore different styles and genres of story. This month, they have been reading and learning about fairy tales, which many in the class were unfamiliar with, so she has enjoyed getting to introduce her students to many of the classics! Thanks for all the hard work you do to set these students up for success in life. Reading and writing are such fundamental skills!
Previous Featured VRCS Literacy Champions
Ms. Cann (Grade 6) goes above and beyond to reignite the joy of reading in her students. She understands the value of allowing students to choose their own reading material, and giving them time to read for pleasure, without any assessment attached. She even allows students to read with a friend to help reignite the joy. She has brought in and lent out personal books from home that she knows might interest her students. Recently her students have just finished writing their own collaborative children's books in class, which will get printed and shared through our school library!
Ms. Ling (Music) deserves a huge round of applause for the incredible work she did leading up to Christmas to get the VRCS students ready for the Christmas concert! Not only did she engage in teaching music literacy, she also taught stage and performance literacy when she decided to take on the ambitious project of a musical! Somehow she manages to seamlessly transition between and plan for early music literacy for our younger grades and band literacy with the higher grades, and has even added on choir this year! She does it all with passion, energy and a smile, and we admire her so much! She also catches all my spelling and grammar mistakes, and keeps me on track in the library which I am eternally grateful for!
Ms. Visser (Resource) - 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.
Ms. Adams (Phys. Ed.) - 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!
Ms. VanDyke (Grade 4) - 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 (Grade 7) - 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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