Dec 4 - Dec 7th

The NHS Debate club hosted Aurora HS debaters on Tuesday evening in the Library.

Congratulations to all the debate teams and a special congratulations to Galiya Vendrov for all her work organizing.

Nov. 12- Nov 16 th

A busy week in the LLC that included the usual crazy lunch period madness for tests, quizzes and assignments along with Grade 9 Take A Kid to Work Day and the subsequent Gr. 8 Feeder school visits on the same day!

The Library Learning Commons hosted the Bogart Public School Grade 8's as they came in to pick up their 3D printed Key chains that they designed in conjunction with NHS Library.

Bogart gr. 8's enjoyed snacks and learned about the awesome Technology courses available to them next year including the new Tech Design Math course that stresses Design thinking while learning the grade 9 Math curriculum.

Hopefully everyone learned some useful skills while designing their 3D project, discovered a tech course they might be interested in and left excited about the possibilities grade 9 will bring!

Thanks to the Bogart Teachers: Teacher-Librarian,
Ms. Plummer. Gr 8 Teachers: Mr. Fuerth, Ms. Skinner and Ms. Hovius.
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The 2019 White Pine titles have started to arrive!

Like all years, there are 10 titles chosen by the Ontario Library Association. Currently 6 titles of the 10 ordered have arrived and, thanks to Mrs. Hartford, they have been processed and are on the shelf ready for sign out. The remainder will be added as they arrive. Check out more White Pine info at the official OLA site .

Book Club 1

The N.H.S. Library Learning Commons has a book club in addition to the White Pine Club. We get together a few times a month a choose a new or old book to read. You can join us on a regular basis or whenever you have time.

We Meet: Thursdays after school in the Library.
Next Meeting: Thursday Nov. 22nd.

We are currently reading The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

               

The story so far...

We began playing with the concepts of a makerspace in the fall of 2016.  There are many articles and websites about makerspaces and the need to make these skills available in a secondary school setting.  We were well aware of the benefits but also aware of the difficulties in carving out, not only the space, but the extra funds, supervision and even the time for students to get involved.  In a perfect world we would integrate both low-tech and high-tech skills into subject curriculum (a goal we haven't totally abandoned!). 
Newmarket students are lucky that they have 2 fabulous resources here in their own town with the NewMakeIt maker space and the Maker Hub at the Newmarket Public Library.

In an effort to get started, we did as many high school libraries have done, and we began simply with providing various activities in the space.
We continue to rotate these in and out of the space as students' interests dictate.

These include: 

• etch-a sketch challenge
• mandala / theme colouring pages
• extreme dot to dot
• book art: book folding/hidey box with discarded books
• Zentangle  chalk art
• logic puzzles

Making a "hidey book"

Heart Fold

Book Folding

Thanks to a small group of students we began a Maker Club in the fall of 2017. These students decided on a few projects that interested them that we would all examine when we got together. It was decided that if as a group, we made something or learned something, we would try to share that for students on their lunch or spare to take advantage of.

Our first group project was a foray into Tinkercad.com 3D design

The group worked through 4 Tinkercad tutorials and culminated in a 3D Keyring which we then printed on the 3D printers in the Tech room!

Our second project was led by Emily Gilbert. Emily introduced us to pop tab jewelry!
Many of us made bracelets over a lunch period and were joined by other students and staff who found it quite relaxing. Thanks to Emily we were able to leave out instructions and supplies as a "permanent" maker station.

The Maker Club helped us to set out some supplies and samples for Holiday Projects/Gifts in Nov. & Dec. We offered:

• a holiday frame                         
• holiday ornaments
• a bracelet
• custom key ring

Custom Key rings

Ornaments with curled book pages and melted crayons

Second semester saw a drop in both time and interest for Maker activities so we left it and are resuming again this year!

 Stay tuned For 2018 Maker News

Oct. 29 - Nov. 2 2018.

Congratulations to the winners of our

 Post-iT Note Art Show!

Artistic: Jett Lu and Luiza Solkowski     

Creative: Ella

Fun: Justine Blanchard

Winners each won a $5.00 Gift Certificate.
                                   


 
                         Thanks to all who participated!










Congrats Also to the winner of the Book Club Spider Scavenger Hunt:


Winner:   Lakshmi Pattathe

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