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3 of the 4 Cambridge Libraries branches are located in core area communities

Core area schools are located within walking distance of their community library

Cambridge Libraries Partners’ with local schools to offer academic support to our community Elementary students

Project Prep @

What do we offer? • Teachers can book a one time visit OR regular monthly visits

throughout the school year• Library visit customized to current unit of study• Basic research skills on OPAC (Title, Author, Keyword & Subject

Searches)

• Introduction to Online Databases (Selection based on unit of study)

• Feature relevant websites (Canadian Encyclopedia Online)

• Library Memberships and free replacement cards for visiting students

• Project support & leisure reading book selections

Support not Competition!

We are NOT classroom teachersWe are NOT Teacher-Librarians

We are NOT replacing the school library• We ARE offering access to a wide range of curriculum support

materials that the school library cannot afford to provide• We ARE displaying new leisure reading materials from comics to

the latest chapter books• We ARE showcasing the ASKON databases for student’s research• We ARE training students to perform basic catalogue searches• We ARE giving students library cards & FREE replacement cards

Building Teacher/Library Relationships

September Publicity: Library Visit Planners are sent to every school

principal in Cambridge to distribute to their teaching staff. Planners contain one sheet flyer that briefly highlights classroom visit opportunities and a flyer for the Young Readers…Young Riders program that offers a free transit ride to the library.

Build an Email List: Teachers that book a visit are automatically added

to our teacher email list. This list is used to send out information about the library (New databases, Author Visits, Poetry Events, Let’s Read program etc…)

Building Teacher/Library Relationships

Preach to the Choir: Remind teachers that visit with their class that

they can come again for a different unit of study.Be Flexible:

Teachers will need flexibility when booking regular library visits. Chose times that work well with both the library and the class schedules. Classes that walk to the library are at the mercy of the weather; snow, rain and extreme cold will affect their ability to attend.

Creating StudentLibrary Ownership

Students who attend Project Prep visits on a regular basis develop a strong sense of library

ownership. Proven Success:

Central School (Gr. 4,5 & 6) attend the Queen’s Square Library monthly for Project Prep class visits.

These students return to the library on a regular basis on their own to use the computers, attend library programs (PD Day Specials, Saturday Craftastic & Gr.4 &

Up After-school) and borrow materials.

Library Visit Timelines

Project Prep Library Visit = 1 hour

Tour of the Department =10 min Unit of Study PowerPoint (Basic OPAC & Database Training) =20

min Research Activity =10 min Library Cards & Membership Guidelines= 10 min Book Selection and Check-out =10 min

Winter OlympicsVancouver 2010

Feb. 12 – the first day of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games

Speed Skating

• There is no faster sport in the world, powered solely by the human body, than speed skating. Skaters can reach speeds of more than 60 kilometers per hour!

• Speed skating takes place on a 400-metre oval ice rink and is timed to one-hundredth of a second.

Cindy KlassenSport: Speed Skating LT

Biography Information:•Born: December 8th, 1979•Birth Place: Winnipeg, Manitoba •Residence: Calgary, Alberta

The 25-cent coin celebrates her incredible five medals won at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games – one gold, two silver and two bronze.

GOLD MedalWinner for Canadian

INFO!

Figure Skating

• Figure skating competition is comprised of singles, pairs and ice dance.

• Each skating element (jump, lift, footwork, etc.) has a point value.

• Judging on a scale of one to 10, the judges express the overall presentation of the whole program.

Bryce Davison & Jessica Dubé

•Born: January 29,1986 •Birth Place: Walnut Creek, California, USA •Residence: Huntsville, Ontario

Sport: Figure Skating-Pairs

Biography Information:

•Born: October 29,1987•Birth Place: Drummondville, Québec

•Residence: St-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Québec

http://paint-town-red.olympic.ca/

Great Olympic

Website

Alpine Skiing

• Alpine skiing, an adaptation of cross-country skiing to downhill, has been practiced in the European Alps for at least 150 years.

• Ski racing is simple: the fastest racer from top to bottom wins. There are no judges, just a clock measuring time and gates that mark the route the racers must take through the course.

• There are five Olympic events in alpine: Downhill, Slalom, Giant Slalom, Super Giant Slalom (Super-G) and Super Combined.

Kelly VanderBeek

Biography Information:

•Born: January 21,1983 •Birth Place: Kapuskasing, Ontario•Residence: Chilliwack, British Columbia

Sport: Alpine Skiing

The Record Online

Excellent

Local Info!

Ice Hockey• Ice hockey was born in Canada. The first set of

rules specifying a puck and a flat piece of wood was written in 1837.

•The object of the game of ice hockey is to get the puck into the goal defended by the opposing team. The ice surface is divided in half by a centre red line and into thirds by two blue lines.

•The 2010 Olympic Winter Games ice hockey tournaments are played on a North American ice surface which is four metres narrower than international rinks.

Martin Brodeur

Biography Information:

•Born: May 6th,1972 •Birth Place: Montréal, Québec•Residence: West Orange, New Jersey, USA

Sport: Ice Hockey

Enter FamousAthlete’s Name

Biography Info

Freestyle Skiing

• Tricks for the Olympic freestyle skiing events include the twister, spread-eagle, iron cross, and the helicopter (an upright 360-degree spin).

• In aerials, competitors hit the jumps or 'kickers' at speeds of 60+ km/h, launch themselves some 15 metres in the air. Competitors must perform two different jumps consisting of single or multiple somersaults with or without twists.

• Ski cross is based on a simple concept: first across the finish line wins.

Jennifer Heil

Biography Information:•Born: November 4, 1983 •Birth Place: Edmonton, Alberta•Residence: Montréal, Québec

Sport: Freestyle Skiing

Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010

Olympic Books Fiction

& Non-Fiction

from Lines Written For Gene Kelly To Dance Toby Carl Sandburg

Can you dance a question mark?Can you dance an exclamation point?Can you dance a couple of commas?And bring it to a finish with a period?

Can you dance like the wind is pushing you?Can you dance like you are pushing the wind?

Can you dance with slow wooden heels and then change to bright and singing silver heels?

Such nice feet, such good feet.

If you could wear my sneakers!By: Sheree Fitch

If you were me and I were you For just a day or maybe two

Then maybe you and maybe meWould see the me that you were too

Because…the you I see You try to be never ever

Speaks to me

See…If you knew the me I am Or I could know the you you be

I think we would eventually Discover we like broccoli!

If you could wear my sneakers! con’tBy: Sheree Fitch

Yeah…we could form the broccoli bunchInvite each other out to lunchShare our little broccoli trees

Cover them with melted cheese

But…you pass me by without a smile as if I were a crocodile then look the other way in case

You see the me that’s in my face.

If you could wear my sneakers! con’tBy: Sheree Fitch

If you could wear my sneakers(You might plug your nose)

And if I could wear your shoes(Even if they crunch my toes)Maybe we could see the us

We never got to meetThe you and me

That might have foundMore broccoli to eat

Ping-Pong Poem by Douglas Florian

The

in

this

Pong

bounce

and

like a

words

side

Ping-

poem

back

forth

metronome.

The Proving GroundPing.Pong.The sound the ball makes.Holding the paddle like that.They know what they are doing.The champions of recess.

Shanghai, China 1980

Humpty DumptyHumpty DumptyHad a great lake.Humpty DumptyMade a mistake.

All the king’s chemicals,All the king’s wasteWent into the lake,

For goodness’ sake!

We Are Plootersby Jack PrelutskyWe are Plooters,

We don’t care,We make messesEverywhere,We strip forestsBare of trees,We dump garbage In the seas.

We are Plooters,We enjoy

Finding beauty To destroy,We intrude

Where creatures thrive,Soon there’s little

Left alive.

Underwater,Underground,

Nothing’s safe When we’re around,

We spew poisonsIn the air,

We are Plooters,We don’t care.

Climbing

Walking on air.Looks ancient.Mmm.I’d like to do this.I like adventure.Hard work.I’d tell him to keep going.

Village of Karamakhi, Republic of Dagestan, Russian 2000

My Memories of the Nicaraguan Revolutionby Eugenio Alberto Cano Correa

A tear streaming from my eye,Running through a field seeking refuge,A road lined with bullet shells instead of pebbles,An empty wheelbarrow stained red,A pillar of smoke uniting sky and ground,A slogan cried from the background,A hug of protection from my mama.

Una lagrima fluyendo de mi ojo,Corriendo a campo traviesa buscando refugio,

Un camino marcado po bals servidas en vez de guijarros,Una carretilla vacia manchada de rojo,

Una pilar de humo uniendo cielo y tierra,Una consigna gritada desde el fondo,

Un abrazo protector de mi mama.

Speak Up by Janet S. WongYou’re Korean, aren’t you?

Why don’t you speak Korean?

Say something Korean.

C’mon. Say something.

Say some other stuff.Sounds funny. Sounds strange.

Listen to me?

But I’m American can’t you see?

But I was born here.

Yes.

Just don’t, I guess.

I don’t speak it.I can’t.

Halmoni. Grandmother.Haraboji. Grandfather.

Imo. Aunt.

Hey, let’s listen to you for a change.

Say some foreign words.

Your family came from somewhere else. Sometime.

So was I.

Voting Time Lines Written For Gene Kelly To Dance To

Carl Sandburg If you could wear my sneakers!

Sheree Fitch Ping-Pong Poem

Douglas Florian The Proving Ground

Poems by Children Humpty Dumpty

Barbara Wynklunder We Are Plooters

Jack Prelutsky ClimbingPoems by Children

My Memories of the Nicaraguan RevolutionEugenio Alberto Cano correa

Speak Up Janet S. Wong

Poet Poet CompilatiCompilati

ons: ons: Single-Poet Single-Poet

Poetry Poetry booksbooks

Poem Poem Picture Picture Books: Books:

One poem One poem with picture with picture

book book illustrationsillustrations

• Poem-a-Day Contest starts January 2010• Ten winning poems will be selected from each of the

following age groups: Children (0-11) ,Youth (12-17) and Adult (18+).

• The poems will be judged by three local poets• The winning poems will be featured in displays at the

Cambridge libraries. • Winners will receive a gift, have their poem printed

and get to read their poems at a celebration of poetry at the Cambridge Centre for the Arts.

• Contestants may submit up to three poems. • Submit online at www.cambridgelibraries.ca/poetry or

in person at any library location or the Centre for the Arts.

Project Prep Class Visits Benefit your Library Staff

Fluency with online databasesFamiliarity with elementary curriculum and

student project resources Confidence in using the library’s website -

finding relevant links and informationDevelopment of a full-range of curriculum

based PowerPoint presentations that can be used by staff at any location.

For more information on offering Project Prep Visits

@ your library contact: ssydor@cambridgelibraries.ca