Library Learning Commons

VEX Robotics: VEX provides educational robotics soluntions suitable for all ages, from elementary to university students.  Their programs are designed to be accessible, scalable, and affordable, encouraging creativity, teamwork, leadership and problem solving skills.  

Our students from K-Grade 6 are enrolled for 40 minutes per week.

We are encouraging students to build and code and plan to have challenges with fellow students.  Our dream to have some students go to competitions within Alberta and beyond.

Makerspace Activies (Quick Guide)

Makerspace activitiesare hands on projects that spark creativity, problem solving, and collaboration.  Perfect for all ages and centered around STEAM learning.

Popular Activities: 

Lego Builds-creative challenges, motorized models

Coding Train - visual coding fun 

Gears - explore motiion and mechanics

IO Blocks - design and build

Perler Beads - pixel art and patterns

Stop Motion Animation -  using toys, clay, lego or drawings

Feature Book  Alert at the Library Learning Commons!

Title: The Song That Called Them Home

Author: David A Robertson

Published: 2023

Genre: Picture Book/ Indigenous Story/ Cultural

Why We Love It: One summer day, Lauren and her little brother, James, go on a trip to the land with their Moshom (grandfather). After they've arrived, the children decide to fish for dinner while Moshom naps. They are in their canoe in the middle of the lake when the water around them begins to swirl and crash. They are thrown overboard and when Lauren surfaces she sees her brother being pulled away by the Memekwesewak — creatures who live in and around water and like to interfere with humans. Lauren must follow the Memekwesewak through a portal and along a watery path to find and bring back James. But when she finally comes upon her brother, she too feels the lure of the Memekwesewak’s song. Something even stronger must pull them back home.