A reminder to use the useful links!

Life is busy and you may not always think to scroll further down the page, but do remember to periodically check out the "useful links" on my page and also on the pages of your teachers.
The grade 12s, for instance,  may be interested in checking out the school division's Pursue Online Career website with info on scholarships, post-secondary choices, and career planning.

If you are at home or just too tired to make it downstairs to the library and require an atlas, try Canadian Geographic Atlas to look up what you need.

Working on an assignment for that Canadian history buff Mrs. Trumier?  Try using The Canadian Encyclopedia Online

Late at night and you totally forgot how to write a bibliography?  Try plugging your info into Bibme and it will format a bibliography for a book, article or website for you.

Saskatchewan Learning also makes available several databases for Saskatchewan schools.  To access them, go to Saskatchewan Learning and explore what they have.

These are just a few of the resources available to you if you take to time to explore the links on our blogs - so remember next time you aren't able to come down to the library!    All of the above are permanently linked on the right .

Library Creations!

The library has been a busy place this week and a productive one!  We had many creative projects started during book club on Tuesday and a few completed - some today after school!  Some of our senior students are even getting in on the fun during their study periods - Mai could not resist and has produced several lovely pieces of jewellery for herself!   I thought I would add a close up of the samples I made (the only ones left at the end of the day!)  Good job everybody :)

More Book Club Fun!

Those of you who regularly read the blog will remember my winter pictures of our family farm, so I thought I would add this summer one, taken at a 50th anniversary photo shoot for my parents (by Twyla Lapointe of Admire Photography)

Featuring my adorable six-year-old nephew, of course.  He regularly takes me down in light-saber battles, but then he ALWAYS gets to be Darth Vader, and Darth Vader ALWAYS wins.

Anyway, on to library stuff!  Book clubbers should be thinking about what passage of text you want to use for the jewellery project we are starting this week.  We can photocopy, print something out, or you can just use a page from a recycled book - give it some thought.   For those of you who want a reminder of what we are kind of aiming at here is a link at Julz Reads where she has used an old copy of Henry IV to craft her necklace.  This will probably take us more than one lunch hour, so don't expect to take your project home tomorrow!

Scholastic orders have been placed, so expect an influx of new books sometime in the next week to ten days!