May 3

May Flowers Storytime

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;

January 20

A Story For Tu B’Shevat – Our Tree Named Steve

Happy Tu B’Shevat!  It is such a joy to celebrate and honour trees.  Our story today is ‘Our Tree Named Steve’ by Alan Zweibel and David Catrow.

 

 

Activity:  Make a Steve!

This lovely and simple craft uses just a paper towel roll and some cardboard and paint.  Make sure to give your tree lots of personality… I recommend adding lots of colour, pompoms, and maybe even some Googly eyes!

Cardboard apple tree craft

January 17

JDAIM Storytime – We Belong

To help us celebrate Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance, & Inclusion month, we are reading the book We Belong by Laura Purdie Salas and illustrated by Carlos Velez Aguilera.

Inclusion Activity: Poem Template

The author of  We Belong, Laura Purdie Salas, has created a wonderful poem template activity that you can use in the classroom that will enable each student to compose their own poem.  For younger students,  you could work together as a class.

Poem Template Activity Link

 

November 24

Scholastic Book Fair Storytime

The Book Fair Runs from December 6-9th in the OJCS chapel

The OJCS Scholastic book fair is next week so today’s storytime will give students a taste of the amazing books that will be at the fair.

The fair visit schedule is as follows;

And be sure to check out the teacher wish list board at the fair and support building the child’s in-class book collection!

For those who aren’t up to visit the fair in person, this link will be active the week of the fair and ordering online is a cinch!  Here is the virtual link: https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5166587

Without further ado, here is the Scholastic Storytime video!

Today we read Fox and Squirrel Help Out by Ruth Ohi and Sloth at the Zoom by Helaine Becker and Orbie