Library News
Book Week Wrap Up
We had an amazing week celebrating Book Week last week. We started the week with a fantastic parade with so many great Book Character costumes. The students and staff looked incredible and all the effort put in was really worth it on the day.
After the parade, students rotated through three activities in multi-age groups. This was a fantastic opportunity for the students to work with a range of students from a variety of year levels and work with different teachers.
The activities they got to participate in included, learning some magic tricks for our ‘Reading is Magic’ theme, creating a book bird from recycled book pages inspired by the New Illustrator winner, ‘Hope is the Thing’ and drawing their own 'Concrete Garden’ inspired by the shortlisted Bob Graham book. It was a glorious day outside and all the students were enthusiastic and engaged.
After second break, students got to spend some time with their buddy classes doing some shared reading. It was so lovely to see the older students sharing their love of books with the younger ones. We also had Kathy Talbot from the CE come and share a book with a few classes during this time.
Throughout the week we also had the Scholastic Book Fair which was well supported by our community. Thanks to the generosity of our families, we raised over $1500 worth of books for the school. A huge thank you to everyone for your support! Thanks also to also the families that sent in money on Wednesday with their child’s ‘Reading Buddy’ toy to raise money for the Story Dogs program.
The students were also lucky enough to have a range of authors visiting throughout Book Week (and in Week 3), with RA Spratt visiting Years 3 to 6, giving a funny and insightful look into what it is like to be an author as well as reading from her books, and singing them a song accompanied by her ukulele. Amelia McInerney visited students from the ELC to Year 2, and students got to participate in a range of activities including writing their own story, acting out ‘My Bird Bertie’ and doing a ‘Book Chook’ dance. Finally, award winning author and scientist Bjorn Sturmberg came and shared his book about renewable energy, ‘Amy’s Balancing Act’ with the Year 4 students on Friday. Check out the WIN news story!
It was such a fun, book-filled week that both the students and teachers enjoyed and I’d like to thank all our families for their support and enthusiasm throughout the week.
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Liz Mihalopoulos
Library Teacher