This time in the Learning Commons:
Spring brings fresh opportunities to explore, connect, and celebrate through the Learning Commons. This month’s updates include new resources, seasonal highlights, and student opportunities designed to spark curiosity and support meaningful learning at home and in community.
Announcements & Reminders
- Our used bookstore Spectacular Spring Savings Sale ends May 15th!
Parent Events & Webinars
At our recent Connect sessions across the province, AJ Crocker, in his Practice Matters sessions, recommended several books that are now available on our Sora eBook app:
- Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
- Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
- Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
- Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace
- Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become like Him, Do as He Did
- Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ
- Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of Christian Faith
- The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
- The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
- You Are What You Love
Resource Updates & Tips
- New in the Search Portal: The Tuttle Twins series introduces kids to ideas about personal responsibility, free markets, and individual liberty through engaging stories. Each book simplifies big concepts like entrepreneurship, government, and economics into relatable, real-world examples. The series encourages critical thinking and helps readers understand how choices and incentives shape the world around them
- Pokémon Phonics – Learn to read with help from your favourite Pokémon! This boxed set of twelve easy-to-read books is designed just for kids learning their letter sounds.
- Mother’s Day is almost here! Catch up with a good read about our amazing mothers
Student Highlights & Contests
- A Gardening StoryTime (Kindergarten – Gr. 4) is free for all HCOS students on May 12, 2025, at 10 am. Learn more and register here.
