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This week I am featuring some articles and book lists on the topic of anti-bullying. I invite you to take a look and find a book to read and discuss with your children!

A Mighty Girl is an amazing source of reading-related information for everyone. Take a look at the article titled “The End of Bullying Begins with Me” for some helpful books to share with your children, tweens, and teens.

The End of Bullying Begins With Me: 18 Bullying Prevention Books for Young Children

Doing Good Together has an article about “Picture Books About Bullies, Bystanders, and Being Kind.”

A Growing List of Picture Books about Bullies, Bystanders, and Being Kind – Doing Good Together™

Check out this article from Scholastic, focused just on tweens and teens:

Books About Bullying for Middle Schoolers

This week I featured the book “Just Ask”, written by Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, in lessons in some of the classes that I teach. This book is amazing! It is written in a matter of fact, age appropriate way for children to learn a little bit about some of the differences that some people have, such as diabetes, asthma, autism, down syndrome, dyslexia, ADHD, nut allergies, blindness, and deafness. Sotomayor compares the differences that people have being just like the different flowers in a garden. Rather than making assumptions or avoiding people with differences, the author encourages children to just ask their questions in a polite and friendly way. What a great book to help our children be more accepting and understanding of each other! I love the tagline at the bottom of the book too- “Be different, be brave, be you”!

Source: Commonsensemedia.org

Moose information of the week: The main predators of moose are wolves and bears.

Enjoy the new snow everyone!

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Remembrance Day, and KidLit Tv

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Explore the world of children’s literature with KidLit.tv!

Here you can find book trailers, podcasts and tv shows about children’s literature, craft and activity ideas, and more!

KidLit TV

Remembrance Day is coming up very soon! Here are some great books to help talk about this topic with your child. https://www.cbc.ca/parents/learning/view/15-books-to-help-your-child-and-you-reflect-on-remembrance-day

Remembrance Day books

Don’t forget to work on your Christmas shopping a little early and get some great Christian books for your family!

The AR (Accelerated Reader) due date is on Nov. 19! I hope the students are close to meeting their reading goals!

This week’s moose info- enjoy this read aloud!

“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while”.

-Malorie Blackman

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Space Week, and Upcoming Events- Book Fair and Bookmark Contest

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HHCS BOOKMARK CONTEST 2020

Theme- FAVOURITE BOOK CHARACTER

This year’s theme for our new bookmark contest will be Favourite Book Characters. I can’t wait to see what book characters you like the most and how you will draw them! Feel free to put a quote from the book to go with your character and bookmark!

Your bookmark must represent this theme. A winner will be chosen for each of the following groups:

GROUP 1- Jk/Sk/Grade 1

GROUP 2- Grades 2, 3, and 4

GROUP 3- Grades 5, 6, 7, and 8

The winners will receive a $5 Indigo gift card from Mrs. Baillargeon, the teacher-librarian. Winners will be chosen based on creativity and artistic effort.

All designs and drawings must be original. Your design may be in colour or in black and white. If in colour, make sure to colour it in well and very neatly. If in black and white, it should be outlined with a thin marker or a pen. No pencil drawings will be allowed. Make sure your design is neat, easy to read, and reflects the contest theme for this year. If you write something, make sure all writing is clearly printed and words are spelled correctly.

A paper copy of the bookmark contest rules will be sent home with your child- they can design the bookmark in the space provided.

TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR BOOKMARK AND SEND to Mrs. Baillargeon at l.baillargeon@hh-cs.org with your name, grade, and homeroom teacher by: Friday Nov. 13. (due the same day as the Book Fair order!)

space suit reading

I am late to tell you about World Space Week but I figured it would be good to feature about it anyway!

In keeping with the space theme, check out https://storytimefromspace.com/! This site features astronauts reading children’s books aloud as they float weightlessly on their space station! So fun! Some of the books that the astronauts read are Astronaut Annie, Mousetronaut, and A Moon of my Own.

A reminder to everyone to keep working on your Accelerated Reader goals for Term 1. Parents, you are able to have your child take AR tests at home if you would like, just as we did last spring. Connect with your child’s homeroom teacher if you have any issues with this. Of course the students are taking tests at school as usual too. Keep reading HHCS!

Moose fact of the week: A flap of skin called a bell hangs below the moose’s throat. Go HHCS Moose!

black moose under tree