Category: Scholastic Book Club

Authors, Scholastic Book Club

Remembrance Day, Author Focus on Trenton Lee Stewart, and November/Holiday Scholastic Digi-Flyer

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A heads up- the AR due date is coming up soon on November 18! Please check in on your children to see how they are coming along with their reading goal for the Accelerated Reader program.  Check in with the homeroom teacher if you are not sure how to access your child’s information on Accelerated Reader/Renaissance.

It’s Remembrance Day this week and we will be observing as a school.  Enjoy these resources here to help your children at home to understand the subject more.

Books for Veterans Day and Remembrance Day Reading

I have just purchased The Mysterious Benedict Society series for the school library and the books will be ready for the shelves soon.  Author Trenton Lee Stewart has written these amazing books. Has your junior or intermediate division child read these books yet?  If your child loves adventure, humour, and brain-teasers then these books will be a hit.  Here is a book trailer and also a tv series trailer for the version now on Disney Plus.  Enjoy!

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https://www.mysteriousbenedictsociety.com/series

Take a look at the NOVEMBER Scholastic Book Club digi-flyer! Your order will ship to your home and you can order online whenever you’d like!  When you enter the ‘class code’, your order earns 20% back for new books for our school library.  Orders over $40 are free shipping.

Use this for the Class code – RC391237

Holiday Flyer

Reading Club Holiday Gift Guide

November Flyer

Reading Club November Flyer

Authors, Events, Scholastic Book Club

October Scholastic Digi-Flyer, Usborne Book Sale Continues, and Spotlight on Author Gary Paulsen

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Take a look at the October Scholastic Book Club digi-flyer! Your order will ship to your home and you can order online whenever you’d like!  When you enter the ‘class code’, your order earns 20% back for new books for our school library.  Orders over $40 are free shipping.

Use this for the Class code – RC391237

October Scholastic Digi-Flyer

The HHCS Fall Online Book Fair with Usborne Books continues! Are you taking advantage of this amazing fair? Take a look at the catalogue of gorgeously illustrated picture books, graphic novels, chapter books, nonfiction books, board books, activity books, sticker books, and more! Get some Christmas shopping done early and support the HHCS library!  Start browsing now with the online catalogue- HHCS Usborne Book Sale.  After shopping online, fill out your order form here- 2021 HHCS Usborne Book Fair Order.   Follow along for Facebook updates here – Facebook Event- HHCS Usborne Book Sale.  And finally, if any questions, and to pay your invoice, email Deanna McAllister here – anotherstoryplease2021@gmail.com.

Author Gary Paulsen passed away recently at age 82. He was the author of a vast number of books for middle grade and young adult readers, focusing on themes of nature and wilderness and coming of age.  His most famous book, a modern classic, is Hatchet, the story of a 13 year old boy named Brian who survives a plane crash in Canada’s north.  Check out this interview with Gary Paulsen and a book trailer for Hatchet.

Hatchet Cover
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Scholastic Digi-Flyer, Orange Shirt Day, and Spotlight on Graphic Novels

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September Digi-FlyerReading Club: Class Code

Our school will be participating in the Scholastic Reading Program again this year.  If your child’s homeroom teacher runs this program through the classroom, then please order through that.  However if your child’s teacher does not participate, you are welcome to use my school-wide code!  Your order will ship to your home and you can order online whenever you’d like!  When you enter the ‘class code’, your order earns 20% back for new books for our school library.  Orders over $40 are free shipping.

Use this for the Class code – RC391237

 

Orange Shirt Day is coming up this week on September 30.  Again our school will be observing this day in various age-appropriate ways in the classrooms and as a whole school.  We will discuss why Every Child Matters and how all people should be treated with love and respect.  We will be working on a wall display this week as well and I will post pictures of that next week.  Be sure to wear an orange shirt on Thursday.

I started a new special ‘graphic novel section’ in our school library this year so I thought I’d post about graphic novels!  Here is an infographic I made about the benefits of graphic novels.  See below for information about graphic novels that may be appealing or helpful to your child. Have a great week HHCS!

 

Graphic Novels Can Turn Reluctant Readers Into Lifelong Book Lovers

12 Outrageously Funny Graphic Novels for Reluctant Young Readers

7 Graphic Novels Elementary Schoolers Love

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A Mighty Girl

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Indigenous History Month, New Scholastic Digi-Flyer, and Father’s Day Books

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June is Indigenous History Month and it is a time to celebrate First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people.  However at HHCS we recently mourned the very sad news about the discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in British Columbia.

If you would like to talk about this topic some more with your children, here is an article from CBC Kids News that could help you.

CBC Kids News

Here are some resources to help you to highlight the many amazing things about Indigenous people and community.

CBC Kids is always a great site to visit!

The Barren Ground by David A. Robertson

The Barren Grounds

Click on the link above for the synopsis/review.  Several of the students I work with read this book for the Forest of Reading program.

What’s My Superpower?

Just an everyday awesome indigenous kid in this story!

 

My Heart Fills with Happiness

A sweet and happy book about family!

My Heart Fills With Happiness

May We Have Enough to Share

Community and gratitude are celebrated in this meaningful book.

May We Have Enough to Share

Visit indigenous websites:

Scholastic Digi-Flyer- June

Class code – RC391237

June Flyers Are Here

Read about Scholastic Camp Read-a-Lot here!  http://classroomessentials.scholastic.ca/s/cec-ca/en/camp-readalot

I will also have more options for Summer Reading Challenges- to be announced next week!  Your child will have the opportunity to earn a Summer Reading seal!

In other news, don’t forget about Father’s Day coming up soon!

Father’s Day Fun: 14 New Picture Books Perfect for Dads

My Dad Used to Be So Cool
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Daddy Long Legs
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Every Friday
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Authors, Scholastic Book Club, Uncategorized

New Book Releases, New Scholastic Digi-Flyers, and Books About Inventors

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Hello HHCS!  Time to stock up to get ready for some summer reading- new Scholastic digi-flyers!

May Flyers Are Here!

Class code – RC391237

Camp Read-a-Lot

May Digi-Flyer

 

May is Inventors’ Month!  Here are some great places to get started with improving your home library with books related to inventors and STEAM! (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math!) Don’t forget you can look these books up on your local public library website as well- just place them on hold with your library card number!

Childrens’ Library Lady- Books About Inventors

Children’s Books about Inventors Perfect for Teaching STEM

Scholastic- Books for Young Inventors

Women Inventors That Changed the World Picture Books & GIVEAWAY!

 

And lastly for this week, I wanted to feature some new book releases that I am excited about!  All of these have either just been released recently or will be very soon.

You can’t go wrong with Scaredy Squirrel by Canadian author Melanie Watt, and now his adventures will be featured in a graphic novel format!

Scaredy Squirrel in a Nutshell Graphic Novel – Penguin Random House

Scaredy Squirrel In a Nutshell

Gordon Korman’s newest book, Unplugged is now out!  The premise sounds very interesting!  It is so neat to see how Korman is still a very popular author.  His first book, This Can’t Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, was written when he was 12 years old and published when he was 14.  I remember as a kid the amazement I felt that a teenager could be a published author of a very popular book!

 

UNPLUGGED

The Magic Tree House books remain very popular with our students and I’m sure they will be thrilled to see this new version of Dinosaurs Before Dark in graphic novel format!

Magic Tree House- Dinosaurs Before Dark- Graphic Novel

Dinosaurs Before Dark Graphic Novel

Chris Grabenstein is an amazing author with many middle-grade novels to his name, including the very popular Lemoncello series.  His newest book is here- Dog Squad! Grabenstein’s writing is always very funny and interesting – his books are a great way to get reluctant readers interested in reading!

Dog Squad

Happy reading!

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World Autism Awareness and Acceptance Day, Poetry Month, and New Scholastic Digi-Flyer

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HHCS, thank you for your support in making the Book Outlet Online Book Fair a success!  We had excellent results as we earned $$822.63 in funds for our school library!  Wow!  I’ll be sure to keep you updated with some pictures of the books that I buy with those proceeds!  Don’t forget that for the next 6 months, we can STILL earn more funds for our library- Book Outlet will be giving us 5% back in earnings on any book orders placed!  So if you want to go back and do another order at some point, you can still do so and help our school- enjoy!

World Autism Awareness and Acceptance Day was on Friday April 2, and we will be celebrating as a school on Tuesday April 6.  As teachers we are looking forward to sharing information with the students about what autism is, how to accept people with differences, and how we all have different strengths or challenges in life. Enjoy some of these resources to help reinforce with your children to “see the amazing” that God has put in each person!

 

April is Poetry Month!  I will feature a few resources for poetry for different ages over the next few blog posts.  Stay tuned for an upcoming announcement later in April about a school-wide Poetry Challenge!

8 Incredible Novels in Verse for Tweens

Brown Girl Dreaming
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Lyrical Picture Books That Encourage a Love of Poetry

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New book order flyers for Scholastic are here!

Class code – RC391237

Spring Gift Guide

April- May – Scholastic

Spring Gift Guide March/April 2021

 

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Books About Valentines Day and Friendship, New Scholastic Order, and Chapter Books for Black History Month

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Hello HHCS! It’s so exciting to finally be back in the building for school this week!  A reminder that the due date for AR reading is coming up quickly on Fri. Feb. 19.  I encourage all students to try their best to meet their reading goals for the term!

Reading Club Shop. Reading Club favourites that you know and love! Shop the Digi-flyers.

I am offering the Scholastic book club program for anyone who is interested.  This way the students can buy reasonably priced books for their home libraries, and their purchases can earn free book rewards for our library at school!  Please have a look at this letter of introduction to learn how the program will work this year:  (click here) Scholastic Book Club

Next, you can click on these links to look at the digi-flyers for what is currently available. When you have chosen what your child would like to buy, follow the instructions on the parent letter (link above).  Feel free to pass the code along to any friends or family who want to order through Scholastic as well. Be sure to enter my class code when checking out- here it is:

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Enjoy this list from the always amazing Read Brightly- books about love and Valentines Day!

14 New Picture Books to Share with the Kids You Love This Valentine’s Day

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Books about friendship are also a great way to celebrate Valentines Day!

The Absolute Best Picture Books about Friendship

To add to the resources from last week’s post for younger children for Black History Month, here is a fantastic list from Rebekah Gienapp, The Barefoot Mommy.  Check out the rest of her site as well as she has amazing articles.

12 engaging chapter books to read during Black History Month