How Do I Find a Book?

Our school library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system to organize books. Books on the same subject are put together in different "neighborhoods" in the library. You can have fun learning about how DDC works by watching this interactive DDC tutorial.

2010 Winter Olympic Games

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will take place from February 12-28 and will officially begin when the Olympic Cauldron is lit in Vancouver, Canada. The Vancouver Winter Olympics web site gives information and links about every aspect of this year's Games with schedules of events, listings of records and medals, photos, videos and profiles of athletes. There is also a lot of information about the Olympic Games on the official Olympic Games web site, with videos and photographs of Olympic athletes competing in both summer and winter sports.

The Green Games
The events of this year's Winter Olympics have been organized in order to cause the minimum ecological impact on the environment and to incorporate the art and culture of the Native peoples of the region.You can visit the Olympic Museum for a virtual tour of Native art created for the Winter Olympics and information about the wildlife of the region.

Winter Olympics Mascots
Younger students might be interested in finding out about some of the endangered animals in Canada by playing games and watching videos about the Vancouver Winter Olympics mascots.
The Winter Olympics mascots are cartoon interpretations of real and mythical animals of the region. For example, Miga is half killer whale and half kermode bear, also known as "spirit bear" by the First Nations of Canada. Watch this video to see a kermode bear in the wild.

Help for Haiti

Impact Your World from CNN World

The students at our school have already made an impact on the world by raising funds from a bake sale to help the people of Haiti. For more ideas about how to help, here is a useful web site from CNN that provides lists of reputable charities providing disaster relief. These resources include some of the highest-rated charities by CharityNavigator.org (an independent and non-profit organization that evaluates and rates thousands of charity groups based on effectiveness and financial stability) and are vetted by CNN journalists for credibility. This is a useful starting place for exploring the various ways you can make an impact.