Posted in author visit, events, read aloud, tagged cookbook, fairy tales, recipes on May 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »
How lucky Strathcona was last week to have Paul Yee back to visit us! A former student of Strath who lived down the block, Paul Yee is an amazing author and an even more riveting storyteller. Our intermediate students were fascinated with Paul’s stories.
Above is an image of Paul Yee’s latest book; a collection of his stories paired with recipes. This would be a fantastic book to read aloud, in sections, and then to make the recipes with the students.
Posted in author visit, events, picture book, Uncategorized, tagged Caroline Adderson, Chinese, dogs, First Reads Canada, HSBC on May 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »
How lucky we were yesterday to have the dynamic local author Caroline Adderson present to our three Grade one English classes. Caroline launched by saying hello in sixteen different languages using cute speech bubble cut out pasted onto sticks, representing the diversity or languages and cultures of the kids in the audience.
Caroline Adderson then read us her newly published picture book, Norman Speak.
A copy of the beautiful picture book was given to each of the students, thanks to Tom Best of First Reads Canada and HSBC.
After the recess break, lovely volunteers from HSBC read with small groups of children in their classrooms, giving them another two books to take home.
It was a beautiful morning at Strathcona, with adults sharing their love of reading with our students.
Posted in author visit, events, picture book, tagged illustrator, lisa cinar on February 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
How lucky we were yesterday to have the talented, funny and energetic author and illustrator (my favourite combo) Lisa Cinar present to our three English Kindergarten classes. Lisa Cinar inspired us by sharing how she was once a child who loved to draw, read and write and now she is an adult who draws, reads, and writes! Lisa was wonderful with the young students, but she would be great with older kids too!
Check out her work: http://www.lisacinar.com
You can also purchase Lisa’s fun colouring books and, me favourite, the dog colouring poster, at Dilly Dally, the lovely children’s store on Commercial Drive.
We had fun colouring the flags!
Posted in author visit, Uncategorized on March 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Thanks to First Books Canada, author Rachelle Delaney came to visit with our grade 3 classes! Rachelle was an amazing speaker. We were all intrigued by her inspiration for her novel, The Metro Dogs of Moscow, the real strays of Moscow and how some use the subway system to travel around the city. This novel was also chosen by VEPVPA (Vancouver’s principal and vice principal association), as this years special book that is given to each school library in the Vancouver School Board.
Posted in author visit, historical fiction, nonfiction, novel, picture book, start with a book, teaching resource, tagged Chinese Canadians, paul yee on May 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »
We are so lucky to have the amazing author Paul Yee come to visit us on Tuesday May 22. Paul Yee went to Strathcona School and grew up across the street. Paul Yee is the author of many favourite books and has written picture books, novels for kids, nonfiction for adults, and historical fiction. He often writes stories from a Chinese Canadian perspective, many of which teachers love to use with their kids.
Posted in author visit, contest, events, tagged bingo, dan bar-el, family literacy day, memory on February 27, 2012| Leave a Comment »
We have so many exciting things planned for today!
8:30-9:00 Family Bingo with favourite book characters – date changed to Wednesday February 29
Dan Bar-El, fabulous author and storyteller will present to some of the younger students.
We also have two great take home activities:
family lit bingo – return by Monday, March 5 to enter a draw to win prizes for your whole class!
Posted in author visit, contest, tagged eric litwin, james dean, pete the cat, stuffie on September 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Win this adorable Pete the cat stuffie. Come by the library and pick up an entry form, complete the activity and drop off in the library by Friday September 23 @ 1pm.
Draw and colour a picture of yourself rocking in your school shoes!
Author Eric Litwin and illustrator James Dean will be doing an awesome presentation at our school 11am this Thursday!
Posted in author visit, picture book, tagged eric litwin, pete the cat, social responsibility on September 5, 2011| 2 Comments »
Everybody loves Pete the Cat, his funky shoes, and his roll-with-it attitude about life. We are thrilled to have the fabulous Eric Litwin visit our school this fall.
We have new books, many with a social responsibility theme, including the new Pete the Cat book. Come by and check them out!
Posted in author visit, events, graphic novel, Uncategorized, tagged renier, shiga on February 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
How lucky we were on Friday February 25 at Strathcona Library to welcome graphic novelists Aaron Renier and Jason Shiga who ran an amazing, hands on workshop with Mr. Brown’s grade 6/7 class.
Using audience ideas, kind of like a comic improv, Aaron showed us how to use different elements of graphic novels while he drew a four panel story about Stick, Rock and Justin Beiber.
Jason adds an alternate ending!
Jason shows us how to make a basic interactive comic, testing our visual spatial intelligence.
The kids try out their ideas while Yukiko figures out how to explain the interactive comic design as origami (valleys and mountains).
A big thank you to Aaron, Jason, Yukiko, and all the other VPL and VSB staff who helped pull this inspiring event together!
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