Category Archives: Library

GENIUS HOUR Research Engines

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Ms. Watt | 2 comments

Below are search engines that can be used for all the fascinating topics we are researching for our Genius Hour projects!

http://www.kidrex.org/

http://www.gogooligans.com/

2 Comments

Posted in Class Activities, Library

IGOR the Bookbeast

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Ms. Watt | 94 comments

Mrs. Roberts announced at March’s Celebration of Learning Assembly that IGOR the Bookbeast would travelling around Nelson finding cozy places to read his favourite books.
Igor’s travels ended last week after being welcomed into 19 classrooms in Nelson & now he’s back resting in the library with the best librarian in Burnaby, Mrs. Roberts!Below are pictures of Igor’s travels!

Unfortunately, no correct guesses for the 1st 4 classrooms:
Miss Watt, Miss Tsakalos, Mrs. Heighton & Miss Edwards!!

Congratulations to Christina Qi for correctly guessing all 4 teachers during Igor’s 2nd week of classroom visits! Yay!
Miss Marino, the Office, Mr. Gurniak & Miss Cornell!!

Congratulations to Christina, Onisha, Mireia & Ericka for correctly guessing all 4 teachers during Igor’s 3rd week of classroom visits!
Miss Gatenby, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Mann & Mr. Grant!!

Congratulations to Amanda, Kihan, Angelina, Richard, Mireia, Brandon, Christina, John, Ericka, Adrian, Onisha & Jessica for correctly guessing all 3 teachers during Igor’s 4th week of classroom visits!
Ms. Dodd, Ms. Gauthier & Mr. Morrison!!

Congratulations to Division 8 for correctly guessing all 4 teachers during Igor’s 5th & last week of classroom visits!
Miss Sam, Mrs. Little, Miss Lowe & Mrs. Roberts!!

94 Comments

Posted in Library, School Events

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Division 8 has taken over the library! Next time you’re
at Nelson please drop by the library to see our beautiful art work displayed! P1140415 P1140419

Thank you to Mrs. Roberts for allowing us to use her boards to display our masterpieces! 🙂

Reading All Stars!

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Congratulations to the Div 8 students who received medals for 50 nights of reading from the Burnaby Public Library’s summer reading program Up, Up & Away! They proudly received their certificates of completion today. Way to go Charley, Angie, Owen & Halley!!

Nelson School Book Swap

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Ms. Watt | Leave a comment

Nelson’s Book Swap is Back!

Bring in your gently-used children’s books to school from June 3rd – 13th.
Story books, novels/chapter books, & non-fiction are all accepted.
Donate as many books as you like & all students will get a new book or two for summer reading!

* * * Parents: If you are available to volunteer on Monday, June 17th during the swap, please contact Mrs. Roberts in the library. * * *