Just two days into our book battle and The Giving Tree has overtaken The Kissing Hand has the leader! Voting ends tomorrow for Battle #1. I can’t wait to see who comes out on top!!! Sacred Heart Academy

It was a hard fought battle for week one, but the students have spoken and The Giving Tree came out on top with 113 votes while The Kissing Hand had 96. Next week Dr. Seuss takes on Robert Munsch! Sacred Heart Academy NLSchools

Our Book Battle continues at SHA! Battle #2 had Horton Hears a Who beat out The Paper Bag Princess. This week we have Diary of a Worm challenging Poo in the Zoo…who do you predict will be the student favourite? Sacred Heart Academy NLSchools

I’ve been teaching since 2005 and today was the first time I had a dinosaur as a student! 📚Sacred Heart Academy

Books, books and more books!!! A great big thank you to a very thoughtful and generous parent for dropping off these boxes of children’s books for our reading room! They will get great use by our students at SHA! 📚❤️ Sacred Heart Academy

FriYAY FUNDAY!!! Word Pop to practice CVC words, Dinosaur Stomp to practice sight words and Bananagrams to work on vocabulary and spelling, just to name a few of our fun games we enjoy playing on Friday’s! Sacred Heart Academy #readingisfun

Can’t wait for the students at SHA to “taste” some different book genres next week! Sacred Heart Academy

Day 1 of our “book tasting” event was a big success! Students enjoyed sampling books from different genres in Ms. Dunphy’s “restaurant”. Looking forward to serving up books to more “customers” all week long! Sacred Heart Academy

Look at all these kids reading!!! This week we did book tastings, opened the reading room and started building our stamina at SHA! #readingisfun Sacred Heart Academy NLSchools

So proud of all the students who worked hard this week to build their reading stamina at SHA! Fantastic work everyone!!! 🤗👏Sacred Heart Academy NLSchools

SHA’s grade one students are reading rockstars and I am so proud of the progress they are making building their reading stamina! Happy Dance!!! 💃👏🎉 Sacred Heart Academy NLSchools

It’s a double rainbow kind of day at SHA! Happy Thanksgiving weekend everyone! ⁦Sacred Heart Academy⁩ ⁦NLSchools⁩

SHA’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony. We are forever grateful, and will never forget, the sacrifices our veterans have made for us. Sacred Heart Academy

A HUGE heartfelt thank you to some generous parents and guardians of SHA students who have passed along their children’s gently used books to our Reading Room so more students can also enjoy reading them too! We are so grateful for your donation and your support! Sacred Heart Academy

When your student has the most awesome Stitch headband and shirt (that just so happens to match your door decoration), you need capture that moment! #Stitch Sacred Heart Academy

SHA hosted our first Reindeer Games with our elementary students today! Oh what fun!!! Sacred Heart Academy

Cozy blankets + Christmas stories = a Reading Specialist in her glee! Christmas stories will all our students Sacred Heart Academy this week!!!

Our annual Christmas Parade Sacred Heart Academy! Big thank you to Mr. Jeremy Cribb for organizing this event every year. It’s a wonderful way for our students to come together to celebrate the holidays at our school.

So thrilled that Sacred Heart Academy is using this program to teach reading to our students. We are just a few months in but I can already see our K-3 students making excellent progress with their reading! Check out this article about the research behind this program! 🤩