Books Light Up Our World

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We have been working hard designing and drawing our favourite book for the paper lanterns that will light up our Library.

Here is a close-up look at some of the amazing lanterns we have so far:

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What do you think? What is YOUR favourite book? Leave your answer in the comments section below.

The Lorax

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Many students in S23Jade have been thinking and talking about the environmental issues raised in the Dr Seuss story “The Lorax”.

They have discussed, acted out and spoken at a town meeting using the different perspectives of the creatures involved in the story.

As a “wrap up” activity students were asked to design a Thneed Factory that was more environmentally positive and sustainable than the one in the story. They were asked to consider the energy used, the pollution released and the effect on the living creatures around the factory, the noise and the transportation of the finished Thneeds around the country.

There were many fantastic ideas and suggestions made by the students – please look at the following pictures of parts of their work.

 

What do you think? What would you do to improve the environment at the Thneed Factory? Leave a comment below.

Beautiful Book Week Artworks

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What a talented group of people we have here at school. Each class chose a shortlisted book and worked collaboratively in their classes to design and make an artwork around their book.

You can see the fabulous results below:

Book Week Art 3! S23 Artworks

Now we will put our Artworks on the walls of the Library for everyone who visits to view and admire 🙂

 

Thank you to everyone involved!

Our Very First Make It Challenge

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We celebrated Book Week with a Make It Challenge in the Library.

Students were asked to “Connect to Reading” by creating a model of some sort of a book they were reading.

We had lots of very creative entries – people used lego, boxes, wood, minecraft, glitter jewels, drawings and pipe cleaners to construct a model. Lots of interesting connections to stories and reading 🙂

Have a look at the entries below:

 

Leave a comment about your favourite entry in the comment section.

Holy Bagumba!

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Stage 2, here is a great little story that we will be reading together over the next few weeks.

It’s about a superhero squirrel called Ulysses and his friend Flora Belle Buckman.

The story has many references to comics and the language and features found in comics – click here to read comics online at

Marvel Comics for Kids site

DC Comics for Kids

Kidjutsu Comics for Kids

Make your own comics at Make Beliefs Comics

Here is the book trailer for Flora and Ulysses for you to enjoy 🙂

 

Leave a comment below if you love to read comics

Thinking and Talking Critically and Interpretively About Friends

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Stage 3 have been working to think deeply and talk about their thinking this week.

We have been using text and words to think and talk about friendship – discussing definitions about friendships and looking at some famous quotes about friendship.

Next we tried to find an image that representes friendship – and we tried to link the visual elements of the image to the idea of friendship the image was conveying.

We looked at the colours, the perspective, the size and placemant of elements in the image. It was pretty tricky at first, but we tried again in another session and came up with some thoughtful responses.

Here are some books you might like to read about friendship:

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (JK Rowling)

Wonder (RJ Pallacio)

Charlotte’s Web (EB White)

Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)

The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate)

Holes (Louis Sachar)

Because of Winn-Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)

The Rainbow Fish (Marcus Pfister)

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (Tom Angelberger)

The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)

Stellaluna (Janelle Cannon)

Ivy and Bean books (Annie Barrows)

The Last Olympian – Percy Jackson (Rick Riordan)

The BFG (Roald Dahl)

 

Are there any other books about friendship that you have read and enjoyed? Add it in the comments section!

Mem Fox

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This term on our author display are favourite books by Australian author Mem Fox.

We have lots of lovely titles that are still popular after many years!

Stage 1 enjoyed hearing Possum Magic this week. Here is a reading of the book for you to watch ….

What are your favourite books from when you were little? Tell us in the comments section.

Origami Yoda

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We have started reading “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda” this week and have had a few giggles with the descriptions of the characters (which are all kids).

 

Some people thought they would like to try and fold their own Yoda, so here is Tom Angleberger’s site – with instructions and videos to make your own Origami Yoda at home.

 

There  are lots of other interesting things on this site – have a look and leave a comment below telling us what you think!

 

Here is You Tube of how to make a simple Origami Yoda!