Books

ANZAC Day Stories

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ANZAC Day is coming up during the holidays and this week we have been looking at many of the wonderful books and stories about this special day that we have in the Library. Some people remembered the story of Simpson and his Donkey from when they were little, and Carmen was reading a novel “The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded” by Jackie French that explained this story more deeply for an older audience. We love connections and remembered stories and learning more about what has happened in our world.

There are many beautiful picture books for older readers that are new in the Library this year, as well as some very informative non-fiction books on a variety of war topics.

Feel free to come and have a look and borrow one of these lovely books to take home for the holidays, you might just be taking home a new memory!

What do you remember about ANZAC day? Share your memories in the comments section below.

Brotherband Chronicles – A New Series

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If you like adventure, archery, pirates, and  heroes then this trilogy is for you!

John Flanagan, the author, also wrote the “Ranger’s Apprentice” books and if you liked those books then it looks like you will also like The Brotherband Chronicles.

There is an interesting website (click on the link below to take you there) with games and music and downloadfs and you can check out this book trailer too!

Brotherband Chronicles

Here is the Book Trailer:

 

 

And here is John Flanagan talking about The Brotherband Chronicles:

 

Tashi Fans Watch This!

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We have lots of Tashi fans here at BSPS – many of whom are enjoying our new Tashi books 🙂

You can find the Tashi books in the “Fast Fiction” baskets in the middle of the Library.

We now have ALL of the Tashi books – so if you have been waiting to read more about Tashi and his adventures, come in to the Library and have a browse.

Here is a YouTube video I found of Kim Gamble  (the illustrator of the Tashi books) demonstrating how he draws a  scene from the Tashi book – “Tashi and the Golem”.

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I love all of the fantastic hints and tips he gives us on how to draw.

You will enjoy this, please watch and leave a comment on what you think 🙂

 

Would you like to play some games with Tashi? Click on the Tashi image below to head over to the Tashi website!

TAshi

 

 

We Love the Cat in the Hat!

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Stage 1 have been learning about important parts of books, and have come across some authors that they just LOVE.

Dr Seuss is probably their favourite author at the moment, so we celebrated Dr Seuss’ birthday by making some of our own “Cat in the Hats” from a paper plate!

As you can see, they look great and are displayed in the Library near our collection of Dr Seuss books 🙂 .

What do you think of our displays?

 

 

A Lion in the Library???

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The Kindergarten classes have been enjoying the story “Library Lion” over the last week or so.

Here are some paper lions we made to put up in our Library – aren’t they great?!?

We talked about the story and if we would like a lion in our library – some people were very brave and said that they would like a real lion to play and read with!

This got us thinking about real lions and so we decided to find an information book about lions to see if they would be able to live in a school library.

    

 

MrsP found some books and we looked at the pictures and listened to some facts about lions as well. Most of us think that real lions wouldn’t like to live in a library 🙁 .

Now we know about real lions and story lions – everyone would like a story lion in the library 🙂

 

International Dot Day

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We all went dotty in the Library – for International Dot Day.

First we read the book “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds and we talked about making our mark and being the best we can be.

Then we made some wonderful dots of our own =)

Attention All PRC Readers

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Hello Readers!

It is now time to count up the books you have read so far this year and add them to the Premier’s Reading Challenge list.

Here is what you need to do:

  1. Click on the link below – it will take you to the PRC website
  2. You should be on the “Login Page”.
  3. Add your DET Username and Password. These are the words and numbers you use at school to log in to the internet.
  4. If you don’t know your Username and Password then ask MrsP at school tomorrow 🙂
  5. On this next page click on the words: “Student Reading Records” – its at the very top of the menu bar on the left side of the screen.
  6. Now you just add the books you have read this year.
  7. You can add the books by typing in the PRC code, or the name of the book, or the author.
  8. When you have finished click “log off” on the left side of the screen

If you have any problems or difficulties just ask MrsP at school.

Have fun 🙂

Premier’s Reading Challenge Website

Playing With Skitch

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Yee- Ha!

We finally got to use our iPads in the Library today 🙂

We had a play with the “Skitch” app – which allows you to add words and drawings onto photos.

First we listened to the story “The Little Red Hen” and discussed the characters and the words and actions that helped us work out the personalities of each of the characters. Then we had to choose a character and think of some other words we could use to describe the character and their actions.

Next we got to use the iPads to show what we thought! We had to take a photo of the character and add the words we had come up with to describe the character. We had to take turns using the iPad, make suggestions, share the thinking and make sure that each person contributed equally to the task.

Here are some photos of us working together – as you can see we are loving this  🙂

We will share our creations very soon!