Bike-to-school day is in May each year with some schools extending the event to a bike-to-school week or month. But biking to school provides young people with so many benefits that it shouldn’t be a brief event near the end of the school year. It should be routine. Fewer and …
In honor of Earth Day, we have compiled a list of books with environmental themes that encourage growing great citizens. Justine McKeen: Bottle Throttle by Sigmund Brouwer and illustrated by Dave Whamond Justine’s worried about what plastic is doing to the environment and to her classmates, so she sets …
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and the recent release of Tank & Fizz, we had a little slime-making workshop in the Orca lunchroom! Dani, our resident slime expert, brought all the ingredients needed to make the goopiest green goo… plus some …
Family Literacy Day is a national awareness initiative created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999 and held annually on January 27 to raise awareness of the importance of reading and engaging in other literacy-related activities as a family. Reading together is great! But there’s so much more you can …
Erin’s most recent novel, Forcing the Ace, is a new addition to the Orca Limelights series—books for kids who love the performing arts. —- The other night I sat in a room with a handful of other writers here in my hometown. It’s a routine occurrence—we’re a writing group, and …
The following is a guest post from debut author Jeff Pinkney. Soapstone Signs, part of the Orca Echoes series, is the story of a young Cree boy who is visited one spring by a master soapstone carver. The carver gives him four pieces of soapstone, and teaches him to listen …
