Category: Special Days/Weeks/Months

Growing Readers Tips, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Books About Earth Day, and Growing Readers Tip

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Earth Day is coming up soon! Let’s use books to help our children to care about this very important topic.

Picture Books to Celebrate Earth Day

45 Earth Day Books for Kids Who Care About Our Planet

Book cover for The Rainforest Book from the Conservation for Kids series as an example of earth day books for kids

10 Earth Day Books For Kids

Children’s Books for Earth Day

Engaging children with picture books on Earth Day.

GROWING READERS TIP- WE ALL HAVE A STORY

 

We all have stories to tell. There is probably a birthday you remember, an accident you had, or a special trip you took. This content makes for great storytelling with your little ones. When you share a story from your personal timeline, you are not only spreading that history to your child, but you are helping to build vocabulary, enhancing language skills, and modeling story structure. Share a few stories from your past or your child’s past this week.

 

TAKE AWAY:  STORIES CAN COME FROM MY OWN LIFE. 

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Books about Autism and Books about the Solar Eclipse

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Don’t forget the Scholastic Book Fair is running this week! I can’t wait to see all the excited students! In addition to their shopping time with their class, students may come back again on Friday at first or second recess if they need to purchase some more things. The fair will also be open from 5:00-8:00 during Student-Led Conference evening on Thursday.

Tuesday April 2 is World Autism Awareness and Acceptance day. Check out these books to help understand this topic more! At HHCS we are observing the day and encouraging our students to be accepting of all kinds of people with all kinds of differences.

The Autism Acceptance Book: Being a Friend to Someone With Autism

The total eclipse is coming up soon- April 8! Here are some books to help explain and celebrate this historical day.

Total Solar Eclipse book cover with cartoon sun and moon

book cover with cartoonish scientists, telescope and eclipse.

Building Belonging- diversity, Growing Readers Tips, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Black History Month, Growing Readers Tip

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February is Black History month! Here are some of the newest books that your kids might enjoy reading related to this theme.

The Hockey Skates

A boy opens a box that has a golden glow. Hockey memorabilia litters his room.

My Name is Henry Bibb

A book cover that shows a drawing of a man wearing a suit in front of a yellow identification card and a green-coloured background. There is brown and red text overlay that is the book's title and author's name.

I Am Big

A book cover that shows a young Black hockey player standing on top of a globe that's made of ice. He is holding a hockey stick and smiling. There is white and orange text overlay that is the book's title and the author's name.

She Persisted: Simone Biles by Kekla Magoon and Chelsea Clinton

There Was a Party for Langston

I Am Be by Jennifer Francis Book Cover

Ron’s Big Mission

A Year of Black Joy: 52 Black Voices Share Their Life Passions

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GROWING READERS TIP- KITCHEN TIME

 

Finding time to build literacy skills can be challenging. Capture a little time in the room you spend a lot of time- the kitchen. Try these ideas:

 

Have your child play with magnetic letters on the refrigerator or on a cookie sheet.

 

Create a sensory writing tray using salt and a shallow pan.

 

Send the kids to the pantry shelves for a letter or word hunt using cans and boxes.

 

Listen to your child read a book.

 

TAKE AWAY:  I can use kitchen time as literacy learning time. 

Christmas, Events, Special Days/Weeks/Months, Storywalk

Ornament Pictures, New Storywalk, and new Moose News issue- MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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The new issue of the student-run newspaper, The Moose News, is here! Take a look, you can read it here online. There are lots of fun and informative articles for you to read!

 

Thank you to all who brought in a book-related Christmas ornament that they made for the library! It was so fun to look at these every day!

The new Storywalk is up! Come and check it out the next time you are at school- go for a walk through our wetlands!

Wishing you all a blessed Christmas with lots of cozy reading time!

Christmas, Events, Scholastic Book Club, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Jolabokaflod- The Christmas Book Flood, Christmas Book Ornament Challenge, and Scholastic Holiday Flyers

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I am looking for volunteers! Do you like to read? Do you like Christmas? Do you like kids? We are looking for parent volunteers to guest read to classes on Thursday, Dec. 21 for a special celebration of JOLABOKAFLOD- the Icelandic tradition of ‘flooding’ with books on Christmas Eve! We will be reading in different ways and enjoying hot chocolate and pajamas. Please email Mrs. B. if you can help out- L.Baillargeon@hh-cs.org. Check out this article to learn more about Jolabokaflod! The Christmas Book Flood

Founding story

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English Holiday Wish Guide

Picture of English November Flyer

French Holiday Wish Guide

Picture of French November Flyer

Scholastic holiday flyers are here!

My Class Code
RC391237

Leanne Baillargeon’s classroom will earn 20% in Classroom Rewards on rewardable items when you Ship to School.

Digital Literacy, Events, Family Literacy, Media Literacy, Scholastic Book Club, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Screen-Free and Digital Citizenship Week Coming Up, and October Scholastic Flyers

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Picture of English October Teacher Newsletter

October- English Digi-Flyer

Picture of French October Teacher Newsletter

October- French Digi-Flyer

My Class Code
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The week of October 16, HHCS for the first time is going to participate in Screen-Free Week and Digital Citizenship Week! We are planning lessons every day on topics of media balance, online bullying and how to deal with it, reliable information, giving credit for images and information, and online safety. We are excited to dedicate an entire week to these important topics. Please keep an eye out for family resource sheets that will be coming home. We are also challenging HHCS students, staff, and families to take the Scree-Free Week challenge! We are going to see how many of us can take a break from entertainment screens for a whole week. All classes received a visit from myself or from our school social worker this past week to introduce the challenge and hand out pledge cards. Ask your grades K-4 children about ‘The Couch Potato’ book! Here is a video read aloud of it, as well as other books related to digital citizenship.
Books about safe use of technology
https://childhood101.com/picture-books-digital-citizenship/
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Building Belonging- diversity, Growing Readers Tips, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Orange Shirt Day on Friday

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On the left is an orange picture book cover with a woman holding a child. On the right is a photo of the author who has short gray and black hair and is wearing an orange Every child matters shirt.

New Orange Shirt Day Book – CBC

I Am Not a Number

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You Hold Me Up

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When I Was Eight

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HHCS will be observing Orange Shirt Day, the day of Truth and Reconciliation, on Friday, September 29. We look forward to seeing the students dressed in orange! We will have an assembly and will do a school-wide activity based on the book With Our Orange Hearts. Try out one of these books to help explain the significance of the day to your child.

GROWING READERS TIP- WIGGLE WIGGLE

 

Little ones like to move around during read-alouds and that doesn’t mean there is a problem. In fact, it’s pretty normal. Kids are still able to absorb language and vocabulary as they move around the room. Here are a few tips to engage your child with books:

 

Choose books that match your child’s attention span and interest.

Ask engaging questions that invite your child to engage with the story. 

Let your child play with blocks or play dough to help with focus.

 

Take Away:  My child can move AND listen during a story. 

Growing Readers Tips, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Women’s History Month

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March is Women’s History Month! Check out these amazing books on this topic!

60 Inspiring Women’s History Month Biographies for Kids

Kid Lit Mama- Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month read alouds

10 Children’s Books for Women’s History Month

GROWING READERS TIP- I’M BOOK SMART

 

You can help your child get smart about how books work. When enjoying a book with a child, point out the following things:

Location of the front and back of the book

Where the words are and where the pictures are on the pages

Drag your finger across the page to show that we read from left to right

Count the number of words on a page

Show how to turn the pages in a book

 

Modeling how to handle a book will help your child become book smart.

TAKE AWAY:  Point out the parts of a book and how to read it. 

Building Belonging- diversity, Growing Readers Tips, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Black History Month

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GROWING READERS TIP- Giving Kids the Language to Succeed

A big vocabulary helps kids read, write, and talk. How do we help kids grow their vocabulary?  

  1. Read, read, read.  Books are filled with rich language that your child will absorb the more he/she interacts with books.
  2. Talk, talk, talk.  Having conversations WITH your child gives him/her a chance to practice the vocabulary read and heard.  

Take away:  I can read and talk with my child to develop vocabulary. 

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Recently at school we had an assembly in honour of Black History Month.  Our guest speakers reminded us that Black History is Canada’s History.  We learned about the story of Africville.  Here are some resources to help you to know more about what happened in this little town in Nova Scotia, and to discuss it with your children.

 

Enjoy these book lists for Black History Month as well!

Today’s Parent- Great Black History Month Books

28 great kids' books about Black history

Harper Collins

Reading Rockets

28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World

21 Picture Books for Black History Month

40 Children’s Book Black History Month Biographies

Growing Readers Tips, Scholastic Book Club, Special Days/Weeks/Months

Valentines’ Day, and Scholastic Digi-Flyers for February

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Valentine’s Day is upon us already!  Enjoy these lists of books about friendship and love.

Valentine’s Day Picture Book Gifts for Little Readers

 

The Wonderful Things You Will Be

A Mighty Girl- Books About Family Love

35 Best Kids’ Valentine’s Day Books

A Mighty Girl- Books About Friendship

February Scholastic Digi-Flyers are out!

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February English Flyer
Celebrate Diversity Digi-Flyer
Fall in Love with These Books Digi-Flyer

GROWING READERS TIP- IT’S TIME TO CHECK

A quick check of a child’s homework or work folder helps to monitor that literacy progress is being made.  Daily homework, literacy suggestions, and important notes and forms should be reviewed daily by families.  It’s helpful to have a set time and place to review items so that it becomes a habit to check.  

Take away:  Check homework and work folders daily to monitor progress. 

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