Harmony Elementary School is really a showplace for...well, harmony! It is always a treat when people agree on the way to go forward with a project, and this school's library is certainly a perfect example. The principal, the New Frontiers School Board documentation technician, and the library volunteers all agree that Harmony's library should be
I'm ashamed to say that when dumping the Dewey Decimal System was suggested to me by an elementary school library volunteer, I huffed and puffed and continued to classify with those numbers. If I only knew then, what I know now! Going Dewey-Lite has many benefits in an elementary school library and if you're still
Atlas, It's Time for Your Bath, woodleywonderworks, cc Attribution 2.0 Generic Admittedly, this post is a week late for Earth Day, but really, every day should be Earth Day, right? Whether you're a full-fledged environmentalist or you think global warming is a bunch of hoo-hah, it certainly can't hurt to be mindful of
If you're looking for new ideas to share with library personnel across your board, you might consider the Slideshare: Libraries in Action that the Lester B. Pearson School Board has posted. It's a photo essay of all the great activities going on in the school libraries in their board. This is also a wonderful tool
Big Heart of Art, qthosmasbower, cc Attribution by 2.0 Mashups are creative and fun to make, I hear. I don't know how to make one, but if I wanted to learn, I would check out the resources in Creating Video Mashups. This article reviews some handy tools such as Weavly, Youtube Doubler, Mozilla
According to Media Smarts: "Young Canadians need to be able to make good choices about privacy, ethics, safety and verifying information when they’re using digital media, and they need to be prepared to be active and engaged digital citizens. Based on our research on digital literacy education in Canada, USE, UNDERSTAND & CREATE provides a
Maybe it's the April showers or maybe it's the hint of green grass coming up that's making me feel like summer is around the corner. With the prospect of summer, teachers and administrators start asking about summer reading lists. Just to get yourself ahead of the game, you may want to take note of the
Lists, lists, and more lists. I keep saying that we librarian love lists. Edutopia provides a hyperlinked annotated filmography of films that talks about the importance of school libraries in Five Minute Film Festival: Reimagining the Library. The article goes from the general to the specific in its coverage of school libraries, with all the
Kids love to put on plays. Reader's theatre is a wonderful technique to make books come alive and to have students bring books to life. According to the article, Taking It to the Stage With Readers Theater (the article is from School Library Journal, hence the American spelling!), readers theatre helps students to become more
The LBPSB “Battle of the Books”, a competition designed to foster reading excitement, launches its 3rd season in October. This competition is open to all our grade 7 – 10 students. School teams answer detailed questions about characters and plot by identifying the book and the author. Regular rounds are followed by lightning rounds, in
