DRAW A STORY FEATURE BOOKS INVESTIGATE WORDLESS PICTURE BOOKS AND AUTHORS Wordless Picture Books Sharing Wordless Picture Books Teachers’ Guides – Use the template to have students convert a well know story into pictures. Examine authors who create books that are Wordless or have strong visual impact e.g. David Wiesner Jeannie Baker Bob Graham Anthony […]
SEPTEMBER – SWAP A STORY For the month of September we are going to take a slightly different approach to the physical swapping of stories and instead swap stories by swapping the author and writer of the story in a Junior School progressive story writing attempt. Progressive Story Writing in the JS Library As each class comes to the library […]
Explore new worlds through your senses – SEE – HEAR – FEEL We see stories through movies, theatre and plays; feel the emotions through character development and stories; specialist materials for visually impaired and through audio books. The ‘Hear a Story, See a Story, Feel a Story’ challenge How to you hear, see and feel stories? FEATURE BOOKS […]
SHARE A STORY In the JS Library this year we are planning to engage with the Share a Story Project and have a focus on exploring literature through the monthly topics in the beautiful Share a Story CALENDAR with the desire to celebrate literacy and learning at SALC. The Share a Story Project is the idea of the prolific […]
NOVEMBER :Share a Story SING A STORY – RHYME A STORY Book Chook Posts Rhyme & Rhythm Sing a story Creative Prompts Start with Sound See Feature Story Songs at Reading Planet Creative Prompts for Kids View more lists from Susan Stephenson Using LEGO Storystarter – create a story, video it and share it with others. […]
NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORYTIME May the 27th 2015 See the website link for more information about the event. AARON BLABEY Yesterday, we celebrated NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORYTIME for the first time. We began by viewing the AUSLAN version of this year’s selected book – The Brothers Quibble The AUSLAN translator was very animated and funny. This added to […]
State Records of SA via Compfight When I think of HISTORY and April the first thing that enters my mind is ANZAC Day. The Share a Story focus for April is “History is a Story”. The question is posed “What’s your family’s story?” We are challenged to read diaries and letters and books from the past, ‘to […]
“Everyone needs stories read to them: Mum, Grandpa, the dog, and the monster under the bed.” Source The Share a Story theme for May is perfect for an IB and PYP school. Looking through the lens of Internationalism, PYP and picture books we examine literature that develops the IB Concepts, Learner Profile and Attitudes. PYP and […]
THE JS LIBRARY MAKERSPACE Access is for staff and students throughout the term where there is a combination of fixed and flexible Makerspace workstations. CONNECTIONS TO CURRICULUM The JS Library Makerspace is connected to the teaching and learning through Units of Inquiry (IB Primary Years Programme), through activities that support the JS […]
Week 1 Literacy Celebrations Term Three READ AROUND THE WORLD CHALLENGE We have been exploring the annual Book Week theme through the lens of the PYP. The theme is Australia My Story Country which we have adapted to exploring story through World Stories (using the continents as a way to organise these countries). We have selected books from each […]