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Why are you supporting this school?
I am a first year teacher librarian at Wellington PS, who had the pleasure of meeting all the students these past two weeks. Every day, class after class entered our learning commons (library) excited and in awe as we talked about our collection which is made up of many childhood favourites ...
Why are you supporting this school?
I have a true “soft spot” in supporting St. Martin de Porres School because not only have I been a teacher here for the past 16 years, I am also a former student! This school and its community are very dear to my heart. It is a place where I had so many wonderful learning experiences and a ...
Why are you supporting this school?
I am a grade 8 language teacher at Courtland Public School and for the opportunities this program represents for our students. Reading is the foundation of knowledge, it helps develop critical thinking and allows our students to relate and respond to a variety of contexts. Providing our ...
Why is reading important to you?
One of my earliest memories of my childhood was when I would find a great book, find a comfy spot to sit, and get lost in the pages of an exciting story. My grandparents had an entire shelf of blue hard-cover Hardy Boys stories that my uncles had read growing up. I loved the adventures of Joe ...
Who helped you fall in love with reading and how?
I’ve been asked the question multiple times, and the answer is so easy: my Mom. Our parents are our first teachers, and she taught me to love reading. Being a passionate reader herself, my Mom shared this passion with me from a very young age. With books like Splish Splashy Day, Cinderella, ...
Why are you supporting this school?
I teach at St. Bernadette. I love teaching. I am surrounded by young people that inspire and challenge me to become a better person daily. They are world changers. I do not envy them. Being a young person is hard. Growing up and figuring out who you want to become is hard. Choosing kindness, ...
Why is reading important to you?
I have always loved reading. I love how it allows me to see things from a character’s point of view, travel to a different time or place or feel a variety of emotions. Once I had my children, we read every night together. The conversations we were able to have because of our reading time ...
Why are you supporting this school?
I am supporting Ashton Meadows Public School for many reasons! We have about 300 students in our school and we all love to read! At Ashton Meadows there are a lot of different things that happen in our Library. We have Reading Buddies, workshops, meetings and even special presentations from ...
Who helped you fall in love with reading and how?
We asked several of our students this question. We received a wide variety of answers but the ones that stuck with us most were about the library. Bolu, a student who grew up in Nigeria, said she loves the library and it is where she comes to, "think, learn and concentrate". She loves ...
Why are you supporting this school?
I believe that reading to children of all ages is one of the best gifts you can give as a parent. Early literacy intervention (I'm talking from age 0 up) is paramount in the development of neuro-pathways in the brain. Think of it as a network of roads on which information travels. The more ...
Which children’s book had the biggest impact on your ...
In middle school I had an awesome teacher who read "Where the red fern grows" by Wilson Rawls. This book has too many life lessons in it to mention them all here. I recommend everyone young or old should pick up a copy and enjoy it. The story is about a boy who learns to work very hard to buy ...
Why is reading important to you?
To me, reading is a way to learn new things and see different perspective. But more importantly, it is a way to break free from our day to day lives and immerse ourselves in a fantasy world or an exiting adventure. One of my favorite book of all time would have to be "Volkswagen Blues" by ...
Why are you supporting this school?
Clifton school is a small school in a quiet, diverse neighbourhood. Last year my son started in the Nursery/Kindergarten class at Clifton school. There were no tears that first day and he walked in like a champ, or so we thought. As the week progressed we learned that every day he would go ...
Who helped you fall in love with reading and how?
I have always enjoyed reading, but I have to say that my three girls helped me 'fall in love' with reading. Being a parent and spending that quality time with your children when they are young and still want to snuggle with you, is time that you will never get back. I loved reading books like ...
Who helped you fall in love with reading and how?
My early years in school were difficult and I generally spent more time in the hallway than I did in the classroom. I was managed at school more than I was encouraged and it wasn't until grade 4 when our school librarian took an interest in me that I really began to flourish. Mrs. Messiah ...
Who helped you fall in love with reading and how?
A long time ago, in a land far away, there was a lovely librarian named Mrs. Lyall. As might be expected for someone in her profession, she had a soft spot for children who loved books as much as she did. In the elementary school where she worked, there was one young girl in particular who ...
Who helped you fall in love with reading and how?
Nancy Drew! My appetite for mysteries was voracious when I was ten years old; and whilst I should have been sleeping, the street lamps outside our bedroom window illuminated my pages just enough to read the clues that Nancy uncovered... My childhood friend. She had the most extensive ...
Why are you supporting this school?
I am the librarian at David Thompson. This past week, the students came in for their first visit to the Learning Commons. It was exciting to see their faces as they saw old favourites such as "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and "Amulet". They were also very eager to tell me about many of the new ...
Why are you supporting this school?
Six-year-old Luca is working to master expressive dialogue, after a Kindergarten year of weekly engagements with Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie collection. Seven-year-old Gracie accelerated her language comfort by discovering an English language picture book written about a piece of her ...
Why are you supporting this school?
At Weinlos schools books hold a very special place to our students and staff because they allow us to have new experiences that perhaps we may not otherwise be able to enjoy. Books enable us to travel and have adventures in places we have never been before. Through books we learn about cool new ...
Which children’s book had the biggest impact on your ...
When I was six years old, my father and I started reading The Wizard of Oz by Frank L Baum together. Even now, I can close my eyes and remember my excitement at reading a chapter every night, and can still see the pictures in our well-worn copy of the book. Reading with my dad was not only an ...
Why are you supporting this school?
The Holy Trinity School Community is in the process of examining the current collection of out-dated books in both the Learning Commons and the Classrooms. I am supporting Holy Trinity School and the diverse community it serves so the students,staff and members are given the opportunity to ...
Why are you supporting this school?
We are incredibly grateful that Indigo Kelowna has chosen Pearson Road Elementary as this year’s Adopt a School recipient. I feel fortunate to work at such an amazing school and I want to do everything I can to make it even better for our students. One of my goals is to transform our library ...
Who helped you fall in love with reading and how?
My local public librarian helped me fall in love with reading and books. She did this by helping me find books that matched my reading and interest level. I went to a private school and we have a very small, old library. I walked home every day and went by the public library. I read every ...
