Here are some of our submissions for our 5th builder’s challenge- using any supplies students wanted:
Second prize goes to another Lego Soccer Match by Athan and Jonathan, Grade 6:
Soccer match: The Goalie saves the ball! Mr. Redcap is shooting a penalty kick and the goalie is diving for the ball (helmet)! By Athan and Jonathan, Gr. 6
First prize goes to Ben and Ivan for their Keva Disney palace, complete with jail and courtyard!
Wow! Today at lunch, we viewed all the completed Stop Motion Love Stories for our February contest. We were very impressed with the talent of these students, all of whom were in Grade 6! The winner was up-and-coming animator Eli in Gr. 6 with “A Sad Love Story” followed by “A War Love Story” by Myles and Anson. Eli won $20 worth of Scholastic dollars to spend in the March Reading Club.
Here are the 2 winning submissions:
See all 6 of our submissions on our YouTube playlist here.
We have our first submission to February’s Stop Motion Love Story contest from Jillian in Grade 6. What happens when an engaged hunter gets rescued by a beautiful woman after a hunting accident? Watch to find out:
We have lots of exciting promos happening here at the library this February. Take a look:
Here are our promos and contests: (click the arrows to scroll through the galleries):
Here are some other fun things happening here:
If any teacher-librarians out there would like to use the Book Pick-up Line promo in their library, please email josborne@myrcs.ca.
Christmas has arrived at the RCS MCLibrary!
All the library helpers pulled out every green book we could find so that we could construct this book tree. Apparently, Indigo stole the idea from us- we are ahead of the game here at the mclibrary.
My Monday after school team of Grade 6 Library League helpers helped me to create this torn paper nativity scene for our library windows. We added names of Jesus from Isaiah 9: Immanuel, God with us; Wonderful Counselor; Mighty God; King of Kings; Prince of Peace; and added the words, “Let us adore him” over the nativity for a special reminder to keep our hearts focused on the meaning of the season.
Every year, the MC has a Christmas tree door contest- we created a tree from old book pages and will add some book ornaments to complete it soon!
The Secondary Campus library does this every Christmas, so we decided to borrow this excellent idea: students can come in, choose a gift-wrapped book, bring to the circulation counter to check out, and take it home, open the book gift and read it! It’s surprise Christmas reading.
Each week in December, we are offering DIY Christmas gift workshops. Last week, we made glitter deer-head wall art; this week- handmade Christmas cards; next week- book page candle jar and star garlands; and if we have time, we will make book page and felt Christmas trees.
This morning, there was an adorable elf sitting on the shelf with a note attached- looks like we have a new library Elf named Eugene- thank you to whomever helped Eugene find his way to us! He will be well-loved…
…but I have a funny feeling that even though he is so adorable, Eugene will get into all sorts of mischief in the library… we’ll have to see what he gets up to!
We had a successful first annual Hour of Code event after school December 5th, 2016. We held our event simultaneously with the secondary campus’s Hour of Code and the middle campus had 20 participants, exactly half of which were girls! We all completed the Star Wars challenge, with most students trying the advanced option and newcomers like me (Mrs. Osborne) trying the beginner option. Congratulations to all who participated- Ethan, Darian, Aaron, Gabriel, Roy, Matthew, Carlin, Sebastian, Loukas, Theo, Jio, Grace, Karis, Micah, Eunice, Sandra, Adeline, Solana Natalie, Madeline, and Grace!
Here are some photos of the event:
Writing code- and not for the first time!
Girl power!
Every participant came away with a certificate, a Star Wars candy cane and an “I did the Hour of Code” sticker to wear as a badge of honour:
First to finish; proudly wearing their stickers
The RCS McLibrary is joining with the SCLibrary and thousands of others around the world to participate in the “Hour of Code”, where students will be introduced to simple coding skills that are projected to be highly beneficial in their future. They will have one hour to complete as many coding challenges as possible, in a fun, game-like format.
We are happy to announce that this is almost entirely full- with over half the participants GIRLS! If you are interested in signing up, please contact Mrs. Osborne immediately to reserve one of the few spots left.
This is the last week for our “Pets Caught Reading” Photo contest. Starting Monday, we will post all of the Pets Caught Reading Submissions and viewers will vote for their favourite pet. Winners will be announced by the end of next week.
But, until then… here are the submissions that came in this week. Take a look at some of the funny book choices…
Poor Pinto is looking for some directions in life…
Sam is learning how to be a rabbit.
I’m so excited!
Submissions are beginning to come in for our “Pets Caught Reading” photo contest. They are so adorable! What do you think?
Get yours in today- email to josborne@myrcs.ca.
