With exciting news comes exciting possibilities, I am ecstatic to announce that Chapters St. John’s has adopted our school Library Learning Commons for the Love of Reading Foundation Adopt a School Program starting this Fall. This year, our school library learning commons underwent another massive overhaul. In order to start re-building our library collection, from the […]
This Sunday, I spent some time trying out a new Oatmeal Chocolate Chip muffin recipe. The perfect pairing with a cup of English Breakfast Tea, which I bought on my latest trip to London earlier this month. Stepping off the London Eye, I had the mad urge to enter the Gift shop, where I bought […]
Growing up, Italy and Greece were on my travel bucket list. I feel so grateful to have experienced one of them recently. Rome will be a place that I hope to visit again in the future. As I sip my morning coffee, with the sun shining through my window, I think back on a remarkable […]
I have chosen to share “Home for a Bunny” by Margret Wise Brown for a Picture Book Reading geared towards Children ages 0-5 years old. For a larger story-time session, I would recommend the big book for children’s librarians to use. That way, children can see the wonderful illustrations by Garth Williams even more clearly. […]
Margaret Fuller once said, “today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” During my informal observation study, I wanted to discover how children became readers. Reading “Becoming a Reader” by Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie in Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals About Reading, Libraries, and Community by Catherine Ross, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie and Paulette M. Rothbauer, I hoped […]
Introduction Feminism is “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of political, economic and social equality of the sexes” (Cole, 2015, p.1). In Opie’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the character of Snow White is portrayed as an innocent, obedient little girl whereas numerous later […]
We spend every day racing through life, meeting after next meeting, and, sometimes, we forget that the most important start of the day begins with breakfast. So, before you reach for that coffee and sugary donut, give the following breakfast recipe a try. I promise it will give you the needed energy to last throughout […]
What to do on a snowy Saturday afternoon in cold, cold Canada? Why, baking and snow shoeing, of course! Recently, I bought a bag of Granny Smith apples. I came to find out it is incredibly difficult to get through a bag of apples by myself. #singlepeopleproblems. So, earlier this morning, off I went in […]
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Ever wonder what Art Librarianship could involve? After our ARLIS Toronto trip, we had a good sense of Art Librarianship and its special field in the profession. Our first stop of the day started at the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) with Arthur Smith, Head Librarian at Library and Archives. The…
On a drizzly Friday morning, I was scrolling through Pinterest and found a pin that caught my attention: “The Best Blueberry Muffins Ever.” Now, being an avid (albeit amateur) baker, and lover of all things hearty and homemade, I immediately saved the pin to my “iBake” board and set out to retrieve all necessary baking […]
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