Family literacy Week, Jan. 24th-31st - Unplug and Play!

Goals of Unplug and Play

1. More time with your family
2. Be more active
3. Push your brain to learn even more this week!

Check out the numerous events happening in your community this week and ... unplug and play! 

MONDAY, JAN. 26TH

Tonight were couple of great opportunities.  One was to snow shoe at Little Mountain Park - thank you Laura Paiement and Mr. Caner for organizing this event.  Check out pics and info at Twitter feeds @sd83schools and #83learns

The 2nd was curling at our local curling rink. Send any photos you have to the above twitter accounts to share your experience and share the word about Family Literacy Week.

CHECK YOUR PASSPORTS TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING ALL WEEK AND FOR TOMORROW. Fill in the back page and enter a draw to win books when Unplug and Play week ends (entry forms to the office draw box).

Origami

Check Out the Top Ten Hardest Origami Creations, 2011

Dewey decimal number  736.982 and Bastion search results.  The Okanagan Regional Library (ORL) has 86 results

Now you try some origami!  Let's start with a paper box.  How-to video instructions found here or on the side bar on this blog under the LOVE LEARNING INFO PAGES section.

• Have fun!  
• Take creative risks!  
• Remember - your creations don't have to be perfect!
• Practice begets improvement, and possibly perfection!

Straightening teeth with dental braces: An 18 month time lapse

My son just got braces on yesterday, so we thought we would cruise the internet to learn about the process.  Check this one out:

Alrighty, those heading into the braces experience consider taking before and after pictures and remember to brush and floss daily!

Domino Chain Reactions

This post is for Ewan who made some creative and fascinating domino chain reactions within 30 mins!  Here is the science behind your fun and "sciencey" artwork, Ewan:

"A domino can knock over the next domino at about 1.5x larger (perhaps 2x larger) and this instant video classic from 2009 is a great example of this chain reaction. Watch University of Toronto’s Professor Stephen Morris knock over a 1-meter tall domino that weighs over 100 pounds by starting with a 5mm high by 1mm thick domino. TINY.


There are 13 dominoes in this sequence.  If Professor Morris used 29 dominoes in total, with the next one always being 1.5x larger, the last domino would be the height of the Empire State Building."




"Stephen Morris, professeur de physique à l'université de Toronto, au Canada, fait une démonstration d'une réaction en chaîne avec des dominos de taille croissante disposés les uns derrière les autres. Un domino pouvant entraîner dans sa chute un domino 1,5 fois plus grand, une réaction en chaîne avec 13 dominos parvient à faire chuter un domino de près de 50 kilos en démarrant avec un minuscule domino de 5 mm de hauteur. D'ailleurs, Stephen Morris explique qu'avec une chaîne de 29 dominos, chacun 1,5 fois plus grands que le précédent, il serait tout à fait possible de faire tomber un domino de la taille de l'Empire State Building de New-York, aux États-Unis, le gratte-ciel mesurant la bagatelle de 381 mètres de hauteur (443,2 m avec l’antenne)."






Aug. 10th, 2009 the largest domino chain of the time:

Oct. 18th, 2014

Dewey for Dominoes - 795.3 (Jan. 4th, 2015 none at Bastion)
ORL




Science - physics

Addendum to Fairies / Addendum Fées

I'm logged back into the Alexandria Bastion library account, so I did a search for "fairies" and here is what the Bastion Learning Commons has:

"Fairies" as a subject search = 59 results

"Fairies" as an all-word search (hitting "enter") = 70 results

NOTE THE DIRECT LINKS TO THE BOOKS BELOW ARE NOT CURRENTLY WORKING.  OUR ESTEEMED TECHNICIAN IS WORKING ON IT :)


The following look enticing:














There are many more, so go look and learn how to use the Alexandria software more powerfully - browse around! 


Ask me to teach you how to log into your account to see & do the following: see books you have signed out, if you have any fines, view your reading history, place a hold, ... and more!


Just a few more sleeps til we see one another again.  Bye for now/aurevoir pour maintenant.

Fairy Creations - Art

Fairies have been a popular topic at all of the libraries I have worked at.  But "fairies" are a tricky search term to work with.  Search results give you fiction, non-fiction, folk tales and fairy tales, picture books, and chapter books.  Thus, it is challenging to get a best-fit book in a fairy seeker's hands!  

Below, enjoy Samantha Bryan's creation of fairies:

Desire To Fly from R&A Collaborations on Vimeo.

"In a world influenced by Victorian-styled flying contraptions and gadgetry,these little handmade fairies appear to have adventures worthy of a stop motion film. Mixed media sculptor Samantha Bryan of West Yorkshire, UK [United Kingdom] shares how she makes everything, from their beetle-bums, to their practical flight suits, to the equipment they need to identify, collect, and spread fairy dust across the land."

The Bastion Learning Commons' main computer must be turned off, as I cannot access the data over the holidays.  A search at the ORL gave 71 hits and the varied results I mentioned above.  This book looked really yummy!  Use your ORL card to place a hold and have it delivered to the ORL branch nearest to you.

The book of fairies / selected and illustrated by Michael Hague.