May
3
March
15
Storytime for Women’s History Month and Innovation Day
Meet Elsie MacGill by Elizabeth Macleod and illustrated by Mike Deas
March is Women’s History Month, and at the OJCS, it’s also when we hold our innovation day. This story feeds two birds with one scone by being an inspiring story about a Canadian woman who was a world renowned aeronautical engineer and a feminist.
February
27
The Better-Than-Best Purim Storytime
January
30
Black History Month Storytime Selections
January
26
Winter Fun Day 2023 Storytime
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!
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.
January
10
Monkey Business – Learning About Idioms
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.
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
November
7
