Notes from the Director's Visit

The notes from the Director's visit are posted at-
http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/directors_place/
diary/resources/viscount_montgomery.pdf

Story Bits- Connecting with Home and School

Thank you to a fellow teacher for this link to story bits- little souvenir items that kids can bring home after story time in the library.
http://teachers.net/4blocks/article33.html

Raise a Reader, Adopt a Book is a success

Thank you to the many parents and students who took time to browse through the Adopt-a-Book table at our Meet the Teacher event.

There was a great deal of interest in all kinds of kids' picture books. We gave away about 300 books to good homes.

By clearing out some of these older volumes we are able to make space for new materials in our school Library.

Thanks to my great helpers: MG, IB, BF and DW.

Advisor 6C web pages

Here's the link to some web pages for advisor 6C.
Mr. Brown

http://teacherweb.com/ON/
ViscountMontgomery/Advisor6C/index.html

Search the School Library for a Book

To search the school library, you can use the following link:
http://hip.hwdsb.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=444

Websites by Dewey Number

Websites for Dewey numbers 000 - 499
http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/Alien/websites1.htm

Websites for Dewey number 500 - 699
http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/Alien/websites2.htm

700 - 799
http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/Alien/websites3.htm

800 - 899
http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/Alien/websites.htm

Book Links, Homework Help Web Sites

Contains background, and lists of finalists for various Canadian Publisher awards.
http://www.bookcentre.ca/index.shtml

• Homework Help (About.com)

Burlington Public Library.Library Homework Help

Hamilton Public Library.Kids Homework Help

Hamilton Public Library.Teen Homework Help

Kingston Public Library.Homework Help Links

London Public Library.I want to know about

Pickering Public Library.Homework Central

Prince Edward County Public Library.Homework Help

TVO: Ask a teacher

2Learn.ca for Teens and Teens Find-a-site Database.

Awesome Interactive Music Web Sites

Gullah music (evolution of African American music)
www.knowitall.org/gullahmusic/

Carnegie Hall's listening adventure website
www.playmusic.org

Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
www.weillmusicinstitute.org

Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/instrumt.html

National Arts Centre
www.artsalive.ca

San Francisco Symphony Kids
www.sfskids.org

New York Philharmonic Kids
www.nyphilkids.org

British Vs. American Musical Terms
http://ninagilbert.googlepages.com/British.html

Space Shuttle links

ISS links
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/video/
station/uslab-destiny/mpg/sts98destiny.mpg
This is an animation of the installation of the Destiny module.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/
An image gallery for the ISS

Atlantis landing video

View from rocket booster during takeoff

NASA media search page

First Circulation Day!

Congratulations to Mr. Berneche's grade 3 class. They were the first students to sign out books today in our new school year. Mr. Brown has been "weeding" out old books and is getting lots of new book ready to put on display.

Grand Opening of the School Library will be announced soon.

Career Cruising News

www.careercruising.com is an excellent resource for looking at career information and help on learning what jobs suit you. Here is the Sept. newsletter:

Welcome to the September 2006 Career Cruising newsletter. We hope you had a
great summer!

Confirmation of Access Information

In case you didn't have occasion to use Career Cruising much during the summer, we thought it would be a good idea to confirm your school's Career Cruising access information. To login to Career Cruising, go to www.careercruising.com and enter the following username and password:

Username: hamilton
Password: 15100

As always, we strongly encourage you to share this information with all of your students and colleagues. We also encourage you to share your school's access information with parents whenever you can. Career Cruising can be used on all of the computers at your school and accessed from home by all students, parents, and staff.

New School Staff

If there have been any staff changes at your school, we would really appreciate it if you could update us on who will be using Career Cruising this year. If you are able to send us the names and email address for any new Career Cruising users, we will be sure these people receive the email newsletter and any other updates we may send during the year. We also encourage you to provide these people with our contact information so they know how to reach us if they need any help with Career Cruising.

Increased Portfolio Storage Space

Computer hardware technology continues to progress at a rapid pace. Over the summer we replaced all of our website servers with brand new, cutting edge equipment to ensure that we are providing the most reliable service and best user experience possible.

With these new servers in place, we are very pleased to be able to provide students with significantly more storage space in the "Your Files" section of their portfolios. The storage limit is now 10 MB, 20 times the old limit of 500 KB. To put these numbers in perspective, students now have enough storage space to save two copies of the complete works of Shakespeare. The
"Your Files" section allows students to add any files (essays, letters of reference, scanned artwork, etc.) that they feel are useful additions to their portfolio.

Updated Support Material

All of the Career Cruising support material (user's guides, classroom activities, etc.) have recently been updated. The 2007 versions of all of these files are now available for viewing and downloading from the website. To access these documents, simply login to Career Cruising with your school's username and password and then click on the "Resources for Career Advisors and Teachers" link under the Helpful Information heading on the Main page.

New Occupations

Our writers and researchers are continuing to work on adding new occupation profiles to Career Cruising. New occupations added during the past couple of months include the following: Adoption Counselor, Importer/Exporter, Medical Transcriptionist, Neurologist, Surface Driller, and Water Well Driller.

Links to Good Book Reviews

http://www.literaturecircles.com/book_reviews.htm

http://www.literaturecircles.com/kids.htm

http://www.lfhs.org/reading/Web%20Design%20Read%20A-Latte/
Read%20A-Latte%20Home%20Page.html

http://www.litcircles.org/

Source for Maps on line

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/
index.html?Parent=world&Rootmap=&Mode=d&SubMode=w

This is an easy source for maps of continents, countries or the world.

Arts and Culture Links

http://www.pch.gc.ca/pc-ch/sujets-subjects/arts-culture/index_e.cfm
This is the link for Canadian Heritage web site, Arts and Culture.
TONS of stuff here!
GB

DinosarDays web site

http://www.dinosaurdays.co.za/
This is a goldmine of INFO for bands from days gone by.