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To acknowledge and celebrate National Indigenous Peoples’ Day here are some books read by the authors, a music video, a look into the 2017 celebration, a Hoop Dance and a virtual tour of the U’mista Cultural Centre.  Enjoy!

It’s time to do some non-fiction learning.  Let’s visit some of my favourite  animals and places (and one at the bottom that I’d love to meet).  Please leave me a comment as to which one interested you.

Great Blue Heron colony at Stanley Park – they are on their nests right now. Click on the Webcam and scroll down to see them up close.

Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta – if you love dinosaurs, this is the place to visit Click:  Virtual Tour   or    Museum Website

The British Museum in London, England – two million years of human history  Click: Museum Website  to explore the museum in 11 different ways.

Musee D’Orsay  in Paris – do you love art?  See work from Monet to Van Gogh Click Google Arts & Culture

Mountain Gorillas in their natural habitat up close.  This webcam is in the habitat of these amazing creatures in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.   Click Webcam

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming.  We will host the book fair in the library on December 10, 11 and 12.  Give the gift of reading!

Divisions 11, 12 & 13 came together in the library to create art based on Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert.

Hope that you did lots of reading over the summer.  Did you discover any new authors?

Intermediate students will have an opportunity to borrow one book this week.

Regular library times will be set as soon as possible.

Read On!!!
Ms Carson

Happy Summer everyone.  Be sure to explore some new books and find some old favourites.

You can still join the Summer Reading Club at the Burnaby Public Library .  For more information click here.

See you in September,
Ms Carson

Students are able to borrow library books over the Spring Break.  We ask that they don’t take their library books with them if they are going away.

Be sure to Read, Read, Read and check off your Reading Club form!! The next, and last form, begins on Thursday April 4th.

Have a great Break,
Ms Carson

Thank you Twelfth Avenue readers for a great year in library.  Congratulations to all of those folks who completed their 200 Nights of Reading.  Your dedicated book will be waiting in the library for you in September.

Reminder to sign up for the Summer Reading Club at any public library in British Columbia.  For more information check out this page at the Burnaby Public Library https://www.bpl.bc.ca/kids/kids-events-and-programs/summer-reading-club

Have a great summer full of great books. See you in September.

Ms Carson