This week we had our annual Winter Fun Day at the OJCS. Our JK and SK students had a fun-filled day that included a Yeti-themed storytime and games. We had so much fun together! Here is Yeti storytime featuring Dear Yeti by James … Continue reading Winter Fun Day – Yeti Storytime and Games
Today we read the wonderful book ‘Ruby Finds a Worry’ by Tom Percival. This book carries the very important message about how important it is to talk about our worries with people we love and trust.
Chinese New Year, also referred to as Lunar New Year if you are celebrating in other Asiatic nations, is happening on February 10th this year. This beautiful story will help us to understand some of the customs associated with this celebration. Be sure and check out the library’s collection of other amazing books on the … Continue reading Celebrating Chinese New Year
Today we read a beautiful Scandinavian story by Pippi Longstockings author Astrid Lindgren called The Tomten. The Tomten spreads a lot of warmth and kindness on a cold winter night.
I would like to welcome back our OJCS students and families. To find out more about the library, visit the Back to School Night Videos page on my blog. What if instead of coming to the OJCS, your parents had sent you to Pirate School? In this story, we are going to find out what … Continue reading A Back to School Story – Captain Abdul’s Pirate School
For our last storytime sessions of the year, I read the beautiful book Memory Jars by Vera Brosgol to our grade 2 students. In the book Freda attempts to save all of her favourite memories in jars where they will remain unchanged forever. Since our school year is ending, I asked our students to put … Continue reading Memory Jars – Sharing Our Favourite Memories of this Past School Year
Everyone at the OJCS is super excited for the Maccabiah Games. Hopefully this story will get everyone pumped up to have fun and do their best! Race with Me! is by Canadian Olympic medalist Andre De Grasse, Robert Budd, and Joseph Osei Bonsu.
Today we read the beautiful book ‘The Language of Flowers’ by Canadian Governor General Award Winner Dena Seiferling. Here are Dena Seiferling’s Floriography Meanings; To learn more about planting your own pollinator garden; To learn more about pollinators, check out this video;
April is Poetry Month so we are going to read ‘A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk – A forest of poems‘ by Deborah Ruddell and Joan Rankin. Can you write your own rhyming poem about woodland animals? Here is a link to some rhyming words worksheets by ‘The Sticker Patch’ to get you … Continue reading Poetry Month – A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk
Today we read the hilarious book ‘Le Pire Livre Du Monde’ by our favourite author Elise Gravel. I encourage classes that aren’t as fluent to pause after each page to identify both vocabulary words, and, for our older students, try to find the written mistakes.