New Books Available in the Search Portal!
Resource Highlights New books and curriculum are being added regularly to the physical Learning Commons! Login to Search Portal for more The Antiracist Kid The Antiracist Kid is the essential illustrated chapter book guide to antiracism for empowering the young readers in your life! What is racism? What is antiracism? Why are both important to […]
April is Autism Awareness Month!
The Learning Commons has many great resources to learn about Autism and resources to support learners. I Am Aspiengirl: the unique characteristics, traits and gifts of females on the autism spectrum. Have you ever wondered why she says she feels different to her peers? Her peers seem to gracefully and naturally meet their milestones, yet […]
Booking for the Summer and School Year
Booking for the Summer and the 2024/2025 school year is now available!!
Super Spring Sale!
Our Biggest Savings Event of the Year! Save 10% off purchases up to $50 with coupon: Spring10 20% off purchases $51-$149 with coupon: Spring20 30% off purchases over $150 with coupon: Spring30 March 13th to April 30th (discount is on purchases only, does not include shipping, does not include Lego Mindstorms kits) View all of […]
Resource Highlights: Unit Study Kits
Resource Highlights – Unit Study Kits Unit study kits are a great resource because the work is done for you! Objectives, activities, physical books along with the digital guides make it easy to cover science and socials topics.You can find more information about the Unit Studies on the Learning Commons website. Physical Unit Study Kit […]
Teaching Books
TeachingBooks TeachingBooks has more than 11,000 book trailers! Just as you enjoy watching a movie trailer, now you can watch a book trailer. Book trailers will help your students get excited about reading books. Choose “Browse” from the top menu bar then “Books” then “Resource Type.” Scroll down to “Book Trailers.” Find this and more […]
Book Highlight! – The Ogress and the Orphans
There are some great books in Sora! Have you looked at this one yet?
Happy Easter – 2024
Subscription Resources: Sign in to the individual subscriptions to see these resources listed. Log-in information for the subscriptions can be found in the Search Portal. RightNow Media – Easter Studies and Easter kids’ content. Discovery Education – Easter content, Grades K to 12. Learn360 – Easter content Enchanted Learning – Easter Content, Elementary resources including writing prompts, work pages, colouring […]
Secret Santa Project! – 2023
It’s that time of year again! For those of you who have never played this game as part of the HCOS Learning Commons, Secret Santa is a fun card/gift exchange. To play, you sign up to send someone a card/gift worth about $5. Send me your contact information by filling out the Google form (linked […]
Read-A-Thon 2024: Read For Change!
HCOS and FLEX are delighted to participate again in another Read For Change Readathon! January 17th – February 14th. Dive into your favourite adventure or genre and expand your vocabulary and knowledge with fiction or non-fiction! We have curated a selection of newer, more popular books and some old favourites in eBook and audiobook format […]