Used Book and Media Sale

Holland Loves Books!  Thanks to all who participated in Holland's Used Book and Media Sale.  Over 600 books found new homes, and we raised $212 for the Above the Seas project, aimed at providing resources for African libraries.

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Used Book Sale

Cleaning out your family book shelves?  ​Holland School's Used Book and Media Sale is back in 2015!  We are currently collecting used books and movies, in French or English, suitable for children.  The items will be sold for a nominal cost at our sale to be held soon!  Drop items off at the office.  

Move on

Today in class we read a book about life. The message that I got out of it is that you should never wait for something to happen, you should go to it. Like in the book the two mice went and try to find the next cheese station while the other two friends stayed there waiting for the cheese to come back. But it never will. Another message is that you should listen to yourself and not to what other people tell you. In the book hem was telling haw to stay with him and wait for the cheese to come back. But haw was getting tired of waiting so he decided to go to it. That is what he should've done long ago. He found what he wanted. My cheese would be to live my life how I want to live it and be myself. How would I be able to do that? It is probably able to say but not to do. To help me stay myself I would listen to myself and do the things that seem right to me. I wouldn't change for what other people want me to be. I would change as I grow up,like everyone else. I would change for a good reason and when I would be ready. I know this is going to be a hard challenge but this is want I want to be and how I will be. It is hard for me to chose how I would be between hem, haw, sniff and scurry because I am all of them. Sometimes I want to stay were I am and think like hem but I also go fast and don't pay attention to what I am doing like sniff and scurry. And other times I am both at the same time, like haw. How does this story relate to life? Everyone want something in life. Some people wait for it to come to them and some people instead of whaiting they go for it. That's what I think is the good thing to do. Hem was waiting for life to give something but life is too short to wait. So you shouldn't do like hem and wait. Go ahead and jump into life.

Xavier's cheese

I think that when I'm going to grow up I'm going to be like haw  I will take a long time to study in school but when I'm gonna get out of school I'm gonna get a good job and get lots of money.

The money is like the cheese. When you start you have lots of money and after time the reduces.

And one day there will be no more money so I will need to go and work hard to find money again.

The measuring of the cheese is just like making good choices with the money. But in the book the mice didn't   make the write choice they all ate the cheese. 

Storm's cheese

Today my class read a book about changing. My changing would be try not to think about my grandpa that died because it makes me want to cry. In the book there was some characters and the characters names are Hem, Haw, Sniff, Scurry. If I was one of these characters I would I probably would have been Hem because what Hem did in the story, he just gave up and wanted to stay at Cheese Station C. I would have stayed at cheese station C. 

Live your life

In my life I want to learn to move on faster because life is to short to not live it. If you want something you have to go get it and you can't wait for life to give you something because maybe someday it will never happen. You need to learn that everyday is a new day and it's never too late to change because maybe someday you will finally arrive to the cheese and find happiness. I want to take my life in hands and to live everyday like it was my last day. Sometimes it will be hard to take a step back and realize what you should do but you need to advance slowly and when you are ready to take the next step you take it. To find happiness I will do just like scurry and sniffy did when they realized the cheese was gone they just went to go find some more so I will never give up and try my best to find the cheese. I will also believe in myself because self confidence is important, to say to yourself that you can do it. Some times I have a hard time moving on but I never give up and I advance slowly just like Sniff and Scurry did even if it was hard. This story really relates to my life because life is all about what you choose to be and Sniff and Scurry choose to be courageous and never give up, but Hem choose to wait for life to give him something. Haw then decided that he would go find the cheese even if it was hard at the beginning he chooses to go and to be happy just like Scurry and Sniff. It all relates to everyone's life because we all change at a certain moment of life. I am sure that Hem learned that he deserved to be happy and decided to go get the cheese too. So in the story everyone changes after all. I really liked the book because it teaches you a life lesson.

Sarah-Mae Kilganon

Shanon's cheese

-Today we read a story about living in the present and not in the past .

-My goal is to be better at French 

-I will achieve it by reading more French books 

-If I was a character in the story that we read today I would probably be Scurry because Scurry doesn't wait for any one , he just runs ahead .

-this story relates to life ex. The maze is life and the cheese is the goals of life. 

The cheese in my life

The cheese in my life is to be a good person and nice to other people; but even more important than that is my career. The passage is still foggy in my head, but I have an idea. I always had an interest in playing football. I would like to be a receiver in my favourite team the Eagles. They didn't make the playoffs this year, but they're still my favourite team. I also always had an interest in technology. It would be fun to be a video game editor or a worker at Apple inc. I would also move to california!

If I would want to be a football player I will have to practice and play hard. I already play in the Rouge et Or and I will try to make the team for the Irish. I will check how I am doing by asking feedback from my family or my coach. From that feedback I will practice.

I am a haw. At the beginning I don't know what to do, but when I do I race for the cheese. The beginning meaning childhood. When I was a child I had no idea what to do. But the people around me influence me. My dad did the most. He made me realize what I wanted to do. In real life you have to change. Sometimes things don't go your way but you still need to be confident and race for the cheese. If you don't, You won't have a good career. But it's better late than never. If A dictator in war doesn't move on when the war is over, bad things will happen. In this world you learn that one little mistake brings war. In this case you kill or bomb a country, the whole world will get involved

Marianne life cheese

This story relates to my life because if my mom died or someone else died I would probably be devastated.I will have to move on but it will probably take a few months or years.I'm more like Hem because I would probably stay in station C and I would be ready to go to station N when I would stop thinking about it.I would measure my cheese if I now have my confidence back.

                                                            

                                                                                            Marianne Bedard Turcotte 

Leane's Cheese is broken

Today we read a story called Who Moved My Cheese? 

It reminds me of when I would buy new stuff I would show my brother and he would take it to take a look at it. He wouldn't give it back. This happened plenty of times and almost every time he would break it. My Cheese is that next time I buy something I would decide not to show him or keep it in my hands the whole time and if he asked me to take it or touch it I would say no. 

I think I am Hem because I would always stay in Cheese Station C. I would always tell my mom instead of having him change which he didn't, I should instead change like Hem did at the end of the story.

By: LM

My cheese: PS4

My cheese would definitely have to be PS4. I try to move on, but it's fun. But I do move on when something better is possible. So I guess that means I'm like Haw.

I must start timing myself so I don't play too much video games. 

I know a friend who can't stop drinking pop. He drinks pop 24/7. I keep telling him to stop, but he can't. He should lower it down to 2 cans a week.