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It's Scholastic Book Fair Time!

11/25/2024

There is an excitement around the school as the Scholastic Book Fair is happening this week! Students will have 2 opportunities to visit the Book Fair with their class:
1. to preview and write up a wish list
2. to purchase books, if they are permitted to do so

The public is more than welcome to come visit the Book Fair during these hours:
Tuesday November 26th 2:30-4:30pm
Wednesday November 27th 8:00am-8:30am and 2:30-4:30pm
Thursday November 28th 8:00am-8:30am

This is a fantastic fundraiser for our library and we thank you for supporting our Westmount Book Fair!
Mrs. Sauer & Mrs. Marinelli

Westmount likes to DEAR!

10/29/2024

Today was National School Library Day, which means that it was DEAR day! - a day that we can celebrate books, literacy, and learning how to read!
Students, and teachers, had the opportunity to stop whatever they were doing, grab a book, and Read!

3rd Annual Sagebrush Book Awards

10/3/2024

The Sagebrush Books has returned for the 3rd year! Students have an opportunity to vote on their favourite book to decide which Picture Book and Novel will win the Sagebrush Award!
Winners are announced in June 2025.
Here are the nominees for this year:

And the winner is...

6/7/2024

The past year students participated in the Sagebrush Book Awards. 8 picture books and 8 novels were chosen by a team of Teacher Librarians in our district, and students had the opportunity to read and vote on their favourite!

This year the winners are:

Favourite Picture Book:
Knight Owl

Favourite Novel:
The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza

If you haven't had a chance to read either of these books, be sure to check them out!

Stay tuned in September for a new set of sagebrush books to vote on!

Butterflies

6/7/2024

Mrs. Sauer looks forward to Springtime and having a few butterflies in the library! From the larva to the chrysalis and emerging as a butterfly, students get to watch this amazing life cycle until we finally release the beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies!

Dreaming of Summer!

6/4/2024

Mrs. Sauer LOVES camping, so why not have a bit of camping fun in the library and read a story in a tent! Monster and Mouse Go Camping is a great story about a little mouse that takes a monster friend camping for the very first time!

Blue Bot Coding Fun

5/21/2024

Grade 1 students at Westmount spent some time with Mrs. Sauer learning about coding. Students particularly enjoyed experimenting with the Blue Bots, where they set up obstacles, and programmed the tiny robot to go from start to finish.

Battle of the books districts

4/25/2024

Our Grade 3/4 Battle of the Books team represented Westmount well at the District Level! The entire team worked together all year reading and studying 12 books. Congratulations for a successful year!

Scholastic Book Fair Success!

4/11/2024

Many thanks to everyone for another successful Scholastic Book Fair fundraiser for our library! Mrs. Sauer especially appreciated the HUGE help from many students in Mr. Caputo and Mrs. Hansen's classes that volunteered their time to help out. Mrs. Sauer couldn't have done the Book Fair without you!!

So many new books for our Library!

Battle of the Books

3/6/2024

Best wishes to our Battle of the Books teams this year! Both teams competed at the Zone Level with strong finishes! Congratulations to our Grade 3/4 team that won a Zone placement and moved on to compete at the District Level!

Grade 3/4:
Piper
Aubrey
Ally
Alt: Brielle

Grade 6/7:
Dreya
Danika
Geneva
Alt: Gabby