Part 2 – Continuing the Slinky Malinki Series by Lynley Dodd I hope you enjoyed last week’s Slinky Malinki stories. This week we are in for a few more where we meet some new kitties. Your activity this week: Create your own cat character! Draw a picture of your own cat character and give it … Continue reading OJCS Storytime for the Week of June 8th
Inky’s Great Escape – The Incredible (and Mostly True) Story of an Octopus Escape by Casey Lyall. Illustrated by Sebastia Serra Watch what a real octopus would look like escaping through a tiny hole! Let’s visit the Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto and watch what’s going on there with their live cameras! Click This Link – … Continue reading OJCS Storytime for the Week of April 27th
One of the best parts of my week is when I get visited by our K1 and K2 classes for storytime. They’ve been working hard with Morah Yaffa learning all about oceans and sea life. After a conversation with a kinder during morning care who talked about his upcoming vacation to a place that has … Continue reading Learning About Coral Reefs with the Kinders
The OJCS Reading Challenge is in full swing and every class is doing an incredible job. Books are flying off the shelves in the library. I’ve never seen students so excited about reading and sharing about what they’ve been reading. Students have been posting book reviews on our catalogue and also sharing flipgrid videos. There … Continue reading The OJCS has read over 2170 books so far!
One of my favourite picture book artists right now is French artist Benjamin Chaud who worked with French author, Davide Cali, to create a hilarious series of books about excuses. The one I read with our grade 3 and 4 students is called I Didn’t Do My Homework Because… After reading the book to students … Continue reading ‘I Didn’t Do My Homework Because…’ Fun Creative Writing
I got the opportunity to collaborate with our wonderful school counselor Shannon for a Well-Being Book Series session for our Kindergarten to grade 4 classes. It was Kindness Week at the OJCS and the focus today was empathy. Our students got to learn a very valuable lesson about the meaning of empathy and how it … Continue reading Well-Being Book Series with Shannon
This week we launch our school-wide reading challenge! Each teacher will decide on the number of books they want their class to aim to read from Nov 19th to May 1st as a group sum total. This number should be a challenge but still very much attainable. There is a list of categories that will … Continue reading Let the OJCS Reading Challenge Begin!