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Every year in September, thousands of people across Canada participate in the Annual Terry Fox run to honour Terry’s memory and raise money for cancer research.  The Terry Fox School Runs are scheduled for September 29^th but may happen anytime this month or even virtually. 

According to The Terry Fox Foundation “Terry Fox was just an average kid that loved playing sports and hanging out with his friends and family.” 

At the age of 18, Terry was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma. While in hospital, he decided to help others that were suffering from cancer. For 143 days, in 1980 he ran across-Canada during his Marathon of Hope ultimately raising over $24 million. Remarkably, not even Terry’s death in 1981 diminished our nation’s passion for his cancer research legacy, with over $850 million raised and 1,300 projects funded to date. 

The Terry Fox website has more valuable information on one of Canada’s greatest heroes from the kid’s activity corner to the Terry Fox Youtube channel. 

Visit the Learning Resource Centre for more materials on Terry Fox including: 

Your school library also has numerous books on Terry Fox and can be found at – https://library.hcdsb.org/search-hcdsb-libraries/ 

As always, contact your school Library professional for passwords or more information on accessing these and other related resources, or contact LRC@hcdsb.org if you have any other questions.   

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum. 

Welcome back HCDSB – our library catalogue is open and deliveries have begun again on BOTH Tuesdays and Thursdays! 

In order to book items from the LRC for delivery to your school, please go to our Library Services website https://library.hcdsb.org/. 

Click on Staff Resources 

Under Staff Resources, click on the LRC icon to view a video on how to book an item at the LRC. Click on the link below the LRC icon to access the LRC catalogue 

In order to book items, you need to be logged in with your HCDSB log in credentials. Click on the Login button (if you are using a Board computer, you will have already entered your credentials and it should automatically log you in when you click on the button. If you are offsite, it should prompt you to log in with your credentials) 

Once you have logged in, you will be able to search for the items you would like to book. Do a keyword search, for example “LEGO”  

Click Book item from the list on the right side of the screen. 

Select a date with a red number under the date (delivery will occur on Tuesdays and Thursdays). Loan periods will automatically fill in depending on the type of item. 

Choose the site you would like the item delivered to from the drop down menu, make sure delivery is chosen and click Book item(s) 

You should get a confirmation email regarding your booking. 

If you have any other questions or concerns, please email us at LRC@hcdsb.org and check us out on Twitter @LRC_HCDSB for more news and resources throughout the year.  

With only a few days left of school, it’s time to get ready to head off and enjoy some well-deserved fun in the sun! This year has taught us so much about our health and safety, but there are other ways to stay safe as well. Especially in the summer! Water safety, bike safety, and internet safety to mention a few. Stay up to date with all the ways to stay safe while playing and relaxing, both outside and at home. 

Check out some of the e-books below that support having safe fun this summer: 

We Can Stay Safe	Block the Sun, Not the Fun!	Online Safety
Helmets, Masks & Goggles	Gloves, Mitts & Pads
Cybercitizenship	Little Red in Cyber Space

Learn more about a wide variety of safety topics at PebbleGo – Safety, including bike safety, hazards on the playground, sun safety and water safety. 

Search “summer safety” in Explora Primary – Canada to find relevant articles and information on this topic. 

Also, visit the Canadian Red Cross and search “summer safety” for even more resources, information, and tips for staying safe this summer, including their Summer Water Safety tips and resources page. 

To the HCDSB community, have a safe and fun summer – we look forward to seeing you again in September! 

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum.    

While our library staff do not work at HCDSB over the summer, there are still SO MANY e-books and other virtual resources students and staff can access all summer long! 

Find all the resources available on your school’s OPAC, Elementary Resources or Secondary Resources pages of our website. 

Don’t forget to save the usernames and passwords for these great resources before school ends. You will also need your student number for Sora (hint… it starts with 032!). With your student or staff number, you have access to over 1000 e-books and audiobooks, including over 250 new additions! Don’t know where to start? Check out Sora Sweet Reads for always available e-books and audiobooks from now-August 20^th. 

Also, check out the fun programs happening over the summer with our community partners to tide you over until we’re back in September! 

Burlington Public Library (BPL), Oakville Public Library (OPL), Milton Public Library (MPL), and Halton Hills Public Library (HHPL) all have programs for students of all ages throughout the summer. 

Check out the Summer Reading Club at BPL, and check back weekly for recommended books, resources and activities, and prize draws – registration opens June 28th.	OPL is celebrating the Oakville community this summer, showcasing local authors, partnering with community organizations and buying prizes locally. For a chance to win some of these prizes visit Summer Reading Challenge and register for other summer programs here.
This summer, MPL will be partnering with TD Summer Reading Club for their first ever story walk. Visit the Summer Reading Club page for more information about the story walk, and to learn about the summer reading clubs which begin on June 19th.	Visit here to learn about HHPL’s summer reading challenge starting on June 19th, along with the other fun children’s programs and family recreation activities available throughout the summer.

HCDSB students, staff and families, have a wonderful summer full of fun in the sun, and reading in the shade! 

As always, contact your school Library professional for passwords or more information on accessing these and other related resources, or contact LRC@hcdsb.org if you have any other questions.   

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum. 

These last months the staff at the LRC have missed going into work, seeing our co-workers and enjoying the environment that influences our working day. We are lucky enough to work in a place surrounded by parks and trees where we get to experience the nature around us. At the LRC we respectfully acknowledge that the land where we work is the traditional territory of the Anishinabe, Attawandaron, the Haundenosaunee, and Mississaugas of the Credit. We also acknowledge that the land is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy, the Ojibway and other allied Nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We also wish to acknowledge that we are settlers on this land and thank the stewards of this traditional territory as we share this land with the enduring presence of the Indigenous people.  

Click here to view HCDSB’s land acknowledgment, created in consultation with Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Keepers from Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Six Nations, the Indigenous Education Advisory Council and the HCDSB Indigenous Education Advisor. 

June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. This year in virtual classrooms and libraries across HCDSB we celebrate the history, heritage and diverse cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada.  

To find some of the resources available through the LRC, e-books and other online resources available through Library Services and HCDSB, view the document below: 

As always, contact your school Library professional for passwords or more information on accessing these and other related resources, or contact LRC@hcdsb.org if you have any other questions.  

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum. 

June 1^st marks the beginning of Pride Month in Canada and will be kicked off at HCDSB by celebrating Rainbow Day, a day to love and celebrate one another as God loves and celebrates each of us. Throughout the month, HCDSB schools will be raising awareness around Pride Month and “nurturing our call to build safe and inclusive learning environments where every student and every member of the community is welcomed, valued, and respected.” Find out more, including activities that will be happening throughout the month here. 

Find some of the relevant books about belonging and inclusion, breaking gender stereotypes, and celebrating what makes us unique that are available through the LRC catalogue, Sora, Tumblebooks, and Capstone in the bookshelf below: 

June 1^st is also “Say something nice day”. It’s a perfect reminder of the importance of our words. Words can lift someone up, bring a smile to their face, make someone’s day, have a lasting impact, and make everyone feel happier (including ourselves). When we choose kind words, we are demonstrating our love and appreciation for one another. 

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” -Mother Teresa. 

Some of the many books that focus on these themes that can be accessed through the LRC catalogue, Sora, Tumblebooks, and Capstone include:  

Speak up

Splat says thank you

Say something

How do dinosaurs stay friends?

Tyaja uses the THiNK test

As always, contact your school Library professional for passwords or more information on accessing these and other related resources, or contact LRC@hcdsb.org if you have any other questions. And on June 1^st and every day, why not spread kindness and celebrate each other by saying something nice. 

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum. 

Packed with informational articles, interactive lessons, activities, and games to reinforce learning, PebbleGo is an online content hub that boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas. At HCDSB we have access to information on Science, Social studies, Animals and Health. Building on this learning, we also subscribe to PebbleGo Next Science. 

 The database is user friendly and easy for students to navigate, with read-aloud audio available for all text on the website. Want to find nonfiction content at the appropriate reading and interest levels? PebbleGo can be used to support curriculum expectations and can be used to better enhance knowledge related to inquiry.  

World bee day is Thursday, May 20th – how much do you know about bees? Did you know that bumblebees help plants grow, which helps the environment? On PebbleGo, learn other fun facts and information about the body, habitat, food, and life cycle of Bumblebees and Honeybees.

While you’re there, check out Capstone Interactive’s e-books by clicking the link at the top right corner of PebbleGo’s website to find both fiction and nonfiction e-books – including levelled readers!

As always, contact your school Library professional for passwords or more information on accessing these and other related resources, or contact LRC@hcdsb.org if you have any other questions. 

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum. 

International Museum Day is May 18^th, aimed to raise awareness that “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.” Learn more about this day from the International Council of Museums. 

 The Ontario Museum Association has expanded on this day by celebrating the over 700 museums, heritage sites and galleries across Ontario throughout the month of May. Interested in art and fashion? Nature, rocks and minerals? Railways, aviation and automobiles? Find and learn about Ontario’s museums here and explore them by type and/or location. Check out the Canadian Museum of History-Museum at Home, the Virtual Museum of Metis History and Culture, and the Virtual Tours and Online Collections put together by Attractions Ontario.  

Also, check out the online resources and databases available through the Library Services Elementary, Secondary, and Staff Resources pages as well as the LRC catalogue to find information and resources to support the learning adventures you embark upon through virtual museum experiences! 

As always, contact your school Library professional for passwords or more information on accessing these and other related resources, or contact LRC@hcdsb.org if you have any other questions.  

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum. 

For centuries, the Catholic Church has dedicated the month of May as a time of honour and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. As the mother of Jesus and our Heavenly Mother, the entire month is spent honouring Mary as we are challenged to follow her example of humility, obedience, and service to God. 

Check out Busted Halo’s video Mary in Two Minutes to learn more!  

On Sunday May 9^th we also celebrate Mother’s Day by honouring, appreciating and showing love for mothers, grandmothers, mothers-to-be and all women who in and through their lives encompass the qualities of motherhood in our families and communities.  

Visit the Staff Resources page of our website for even more Catholic Education resources, including CARFELO, who have created a compilation of Mother’s Day prayers. 

Search the LRC catalogue for other books and resources to support Mother’s Day, including: 

Holy holidays! : the Catholic origins of celebration	Mama, do you love me?	Llama soft toy and books.
On Mother’s lap	Does a kangaroo have a mother, too?	Mary : an introduction.
My Footprints	The Rosary : a special way to pray	Pirate Mom

As always, contact your school Library professional for passwords or more information on accessing these and other related resources, or contact LRC@hcdsb.org if you have any other questions. 

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum.  

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International Dance Day takes place every year on April 29^th, the birthday of the creator of modern ballet, Jean-Georges Noverre. This day celebrates dance, its value and importance and is intended to bring people together through dance. To learn more, check out International Dance Day and visit Canadian Dance Assembly to read Dance Day messages from across Canada. 

HCDSB staff can find a variety of resources to support dance (and drama) education at Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators (CODE). Staff can access resources by using the login information found on the password protected Staff Digital Tools – Passwords and Links page of the Library Services website. Some of the many resources and supports available through CODE are unit plans, lesson plans, and assessment tools and searches can be refined by teaching division.  

Search the LRC catalogue for other books and resources to support dance education, including: 

The Ultimate dance education kit. Elementary

Global groove adventure

Dance Sequences – physical education resource units 

Engaging the soul through the arts and : the Ontario Catholic Graduate 

Also, check out Curio and Learn 360 to find related videos by searching “dance” and refining your results based on age, language and more. But most of all – get out there and dance!!! 

Please note that the Board has no control over the changing content of electronic resources. Use your professional judgment when accessing resources. Resources are for HCDSB staff and students only. To maintain our agreements with our vendor partners, we must ensure we are not posting passwords in any public forum. 

As always, contact your school Library professional for passwords or more information on accessing these and other related resources, or contact LRC@hcdsb.org if you have any other questions.