Apps and websites, Events, Family Literacy, Growing Readers Tips

Britannica School, Reading Review Challenge, and Growing Readers Tip

Did you know that we have a school subscription to Britannica School? It is an amazing resource! Check it out here at https://school.eb.com/levels. The username and password are both hhcs. Encyclopedia Britannica Logo

Britannica School can be an amazing homework helper! It has different reading levels available for each article, so that you can tier the information to the level that your student is at. It has a read-aloud feature and can translate to other languages as well! You can use Britannica ImageQuest to find rights-cleared images that can be used for reports. Britannica is a safe way for our kids to search the internet for what they need and is fun to use! It has at-a-glance collections of information on various topics, a Canada At a Glance section, early elementary fundamentals for grades K-2, news stories of the day, an online atlas, and a compare countries tool. Check out this article here for a guided tour for parents. britannicaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Britannica-School-Guided-Tour-For-Parents.pdf

GROWING READERS TIP: (From GrowingBookbyBook.com)

 

Helping your child feel like reading is one of their special super powers early on is important. Noticing aloud when your child does things such as selects a book, talks about a story, enjoys a read-aloud, notices things in a book, talks about a story, enjoys a read-aloud, notices things in a book, or perhaps even reads, helps your child feel like he/she is living a readerly life. 

 

Try these prompts this week as you notice your child living a readerly life.

 

“You have a real superpower for ____________.”

“You did ___________________, which is something that strong readers do.”

 

TAKE AWAY: I can help my child discover their inner reading superpower. 

Christmas, Events, Scholastic Book Club

Read-a-Thon, New Scholastic Digi-Flyers, Pictures from Jolabokaflod

January English Flyer

Picture of English November Flyer

January French Flyer

Picture of French November Flyer

My class code is RC391237.

 

We are excited to present the HHCS Usborne Read-a-Thon for the second year! Your child received a package on Friday for this amazing opportunity. Blast into reading and support the HHCS library while building your child’s personal home library as well! Usborne has an amazing selection of fiction and non-fiction as well as activity books and puzzles.

Just before the Christmas break we had a wonderful and cozy day to celebrate Jolabokaflod- the Icelandic tradition of the ‘Christmas book flood’. We enjoyed lots of reading and yummy hot chocolate. Thank you to all the guest readers who volunteered as well as those who helped to serve the drinks!