We will be celebrating Blue Spruce 2019 with TWO days of celebrations April 24 & 25. Centres include Voting, Chatterpix, Activity Centres, Button Making and BookMarks!

What book will you vote for Dragons?

SCDSB Overdrive ebooks are here!

3 methods to borrow online books with your school account – 2000 + titles & 83 subjects

• SORA app by Overdrive on your personal device
• Use OverDrive with this link:
• Simcoe County Library Reserve
• Go to TLC SCDSB Link then click on Angus Morrison under Elementary Schools, click on My Account and sign in with your SCDSB school account

For Kindergarten and Grade 1 students who don’t use their SCDSB school accounts yet, please continue to use the amazing free e-books and audio books from Tumblebooks  and Scholastic Book Flix

TumbleBooks Library

username: scdsb

password: reads

Scholastic Book Flix

username:  simcodsb

password: simc7729

Feb.1-22 The Friendship Post Office

Blue Spruce 2019 Program continues with FDK to Grade 3 Students.

Blue Spruce Nominees 2019

The Scholastic “Enchanted Forest” Book Fair runs from Wed., Nov. 21st to Friday, November 23.   We are open until 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and until 8:00 p.m. on Thursday!  Dress in “enchanted” attire (think unicorn, dragon, fairy, gnome etc) and your name will be entered in a draw for a FREE book prize!  We also have the awesome Family Event Draw – win $25.00 in FREE books for you AND your classroom!  Cash, credit and debit – get your holiday shopping done at our book fair and bring tons of new books into our Library/Learning Commons.  Come and meet our new Teacher-Librarian, Ms. Hibbert!

Enchanted Forest Video Clip

• Looking forward to another great school year filled with book talks, book exchanges, Scholastic Book Fairs, author visits, STEAM challenges, robotics club, coding and other fantastic adventures together! Our Library/Learning Commons is so excited to welcome our new Year 1 students to the Full Day Kindergarten program, new students and new staff.

We are part of the Indigo Adopt a School online Program – between Sept.15 and Oct.7 any online purchases you make under our school link goes directly to our school library program. Please share this link with your family and friends!

Indigo Adopt A School

Mrs. Brown, your Library Dragon, will be teaching with a new Teacher-Librarian this year. Mrs. Pragnell will be close by as she is one of our new Grade 2 Teachers.   Welcome to Mrs. Morrow, our new Teacher-Librarian! Students will remember her as she taught Mrs. Parker’s Grade 3 class for a few weeks and was on our staff full time for June. Mrs. Morrow will be at AMES for 2 days and Lions Oval Elementary School for 3 days.

Coming soon – the annual Terry Fox Run – Friday, Oct 19th.  Family and community members are welcome to join us. What special events will Mdme Huften, Mrs. Brown and the AMES teachers have in store for you!

Terry Fox Run 2018

Scholastic Book Fair – Nov. 21, 22, 23

Computer Science Week – Dec. 3 to 9

STEAM Challenge Festival of Trees- Dec. 3 to 21

Our school held our Blue Spruce 2018 Celebration and voted for Shark Lady in 1st place.   We are thrilled to announce Shark Lady won Blue Spruce 2018!  Honour books were Great and The Boy  Who Lived Down the Drain.

The Red Maple 2018 winner was The Winnowing!

To find out more about the Forest of Reading Program, go to: Forest of Reading

April 2 – Easter Monday and Passover

April 9 – Comic Freeze DNA presentation for Grades 2-5 with cartoonists Anthony and Sylvia

April is Poetry Month!

April 22 – Earth Day

April 23 and 25 – Big Kid Entertainment presentations

April 24 and April 25 – Blue Spruce  Celebration and Voting for Grades 1, 2 and 3 and some FDK’s! Thank you to all of our amazing student leaders for helping to run these special days.

April 28 – Our fabulous Public Speaking Star, Ife, will be competing in the Regional Legion event in Scarborough,ON.  Good luck, Ife!

April 30- Last day for Red Maple and Blue Spruce voting

May 3 – School Volunteer Breakfast event – thank you volunteers, we couldn’t do what we do without you!

May 9 to 11-  Scholastic “Paws for Reading” Book Fair

Last week of May – EQAO – the Library/Learning Commons will be closed

First week of June – EQAO – the Library/Learing Commons will be closed

Welcome to Kindergarten – date tba

June 13 –  Fun Fair

June 15 – Primary Play day and Last Day for Book Exchange

Upcoming Events:

Black History Month – all of February

Groundhog Day – Feb. 2nd

Community Night – Feb. 8th – come try our Dash, Sphero and LEGO EV3 robots, Chromebooks, Math Games and e-books!  5:00 p.m to & 7:30 p.m.

Winter Olympics 2018 – Feb. 9th to Feb. 24th

Valentine’s Day – Feb. 14th

Chinese New Year – Feb. 16th

Author Visit Mike Wade – Feb. 26th  Grades 3 to 6 

Comic Freeze Art Workshop – April 9th  Grades 2 to 5 

We are thrilled to welcome Toronto Author, Composer and Performer Jean Miso to our school on Oct. 26th.  As a school we will be making donations to help Jean raise funds for a home for homeless veterans.

Thank you to all of our students, staff, families and community members for supporting the 37th Annual Terry Fox Run at our school.  We set a goal of $150.00 per grade to celebrate Canada’s 150th and we more than doubled our goal by raising over $3020.00 for cancer research.

Many classes will be having Movie  Parties and/or treats to thank them for their fundraising and/or amazing T-Shirt designs and songs/chants during the event.  All students will be excited to know that there will be a SECRET STAFF SURPRISE to thank them for all their great work for Terry Fox! Stay Tuned….coming soon!