Voting Day for White Pine and Red Maple is Today April 28th

Be sure to vote in the LC for your favorite book from our 2014-2015 Reading List!

Check out the Nominated List

Be sure to review your favorite book by checking out our club blogs @

sjhredmaple.blogspot.com

or 

sjhwhitepine.blogspot.com

You must have read 5/10 novels to be eligible to vote today and all 10 novels to obtain an Academic Award in June.

Keep Reading Jags!

Hot Docs Film Festival Apr 23-May 1

Docs For Schools films engage students with issues of our day, offering vital ideas, critical questions and new perspectives outside the mainstream media and school textbook. Teacher-prepared education packages with valuable background information, creative lesson plans, and links to the Ontario school curriculum are provided for each film.

In School Festival Hot Docs

Now Playing in the Main Library, the Quiet Lab and in classrooms:

David and Me

The Crash Reel

Enjoy Poverty

The Starfish Throwers

Christmas with Don Cherry

Herman's House

Mug Shot

Songs for Alexis

10 Reasons Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library

Writer's Craft Children's Literature Inquiry Challenge

Students evaluated a box of over 30 books each using co-created criteria in Google Docs.

Oliver Jeffer's How to Catch a Star was the overall winner in the Canada' Reads style debate.

Check out Jeffer's Website here

The Day the Crayons Quit was a tied for second place with We Are in a Book and Not a Stick.

It's a Book had an honourable mention for its appeal to both parents and children.

The Giving Tree was selected for its appeal to parents.

What Apps are students using for Education? Part 4

Prezi

Remind

Word Reference

You Tube

What Apps are students using for Education? Part 3

My Blueprint

Overdrive

Powtoon

What Apps are students using for Education? Part 2

Google Sites

Turnitin

Khan Academy

Kid Blogger