​皇家橡树学校社区很兴奋地参加了2017年5月8日至12日的TD加拿大儿童图书周。

为了激发学生对这一活动的兴趣和参与度，学校工作人员组织了一个“超级阅读挑战”，在4月28日至5月11日期间让学生们看看他们能读多少本书。在这段时间里，学生们报告阅读了3839本书！为每个年级的阅读量最高的学生和估计最接近学校阅读量的学生颁发了书籍奖品。

为了开始儿童图书周，学生们有机会与当地作家Valerie Walker见面，享受她关于“海德利刺猬”的书籍，并听她的鼓舞人心的话语“与朋友一起分享冒险更美好”。她与学生们谈论了写作过程和生成她的故事创意的方法。

星期二，学生们期待校长Lynn Sparks和副校长Benita Dalton朗读故事后，他们可以在星期三扮演自己最喜爱的故事书角色。除了换装，学生们还带来了他们扮演的书籍，并参加了年级间共同阅读伙伴活动。

星期四，学生们非常高兴欢迎卡尔加里马夫队的Spencer Wilson回到学校，他还有队友Adam Thibault陪同。Spencer和Adam抽出时间与每个班级分享朗读故事，并谈论阅读过程中毅力和承诺的重要性。学生们兴高采烈地分享了他们所参与的阅读挑战，并与家人一起阅读了多少本书。为了结束他们在皇家橡树学校的下午，来宾马夫队的队员们也与学生们一起短暂加入鼓励他们参加“Jump Rope for Heart Jump Event”的活动。

整个星期学生们参加了每日的“猜书名”比赛和“放下一切，阅读”（DEAR）机会。奖品在整个星期内颁发给学生们。这是一个为学生、教职员工和家长们带来活力和快乐的阅读周在皇家橡树学校！

​The Royal Oak School community was excited to participate in TD Canadian Children’s Book Week during the week of May 8-12, 2017.

To help foster student excitement and engagement about the event, staff organized a “Super Reading Challenge” with students to see how many books they could read between April 28 and May 11. During this time period, students read a reported 3,839 books! Book prizes were awarded for top readers from each grade and to the student that estimated the closest amount of books read by the school.

To kick off Children’s Book Week, students had the opportunity to meet local author, Valerie Walker, enjoy her books about “Hedley Hedgehog” and listen to her inspirational words “adventures are better when shared with a friend”. She talked about the writing process and generating ideas for her stories with students.

On Tuesday, students looked forward to a read-aloud from Principal Lynn Sparks and Assistant Principal Benita Dalton, followed by dressing up as their favourite storybook character on Wednesday. Along with dressing up, students also brought in the book they dressed up from and joined in shared cross-grade buddy reading opportunities.

On Thursday, students were thrilled to welcome back Spencer Wilson from the Calgary Stampeders, who was also joined by teammate, Adam Thibault. Spencer and Adam took time to share a read-aloud story with each classroom and talked about the importance of perseverance and commitment in the reading process. Students vociferously shared about the reading challenge they were involved in and shared how many books they had been reading at home with their families. To end their afternoon at Royal Oak School, the guest Stampeders also joined students briefly to cheer them on in their Jump Rope for Heart Jump Event.

Throughout the week students participated in daily ‘Guess the Book’ contests and Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) opportunities. Prizes were awarded to students throughout the week. It was an invigorating and joyful week of reading at Royal Oak School appreciated by students, staff and parents!