We have booked our visiting authors/illustrators for next year.
Have you read Martin Chatterton’s or Tristan Bancks’ books?
Both look like they will be alot of fun!
Go to Author voices to see what Tristan is up to.
Category Archives: Library
Global Education Resources
Great ideas and links to resources to learn more about other people around the world.
Has links to photos, students work and the winners from the Visual Stories Challenge.
Global Education Projects Support
BOOK WEEK Activity Day
What an exciting day!
Lots of reading, sharing, learning, talk and eating!
See the animoto video of the day!
Did you enjoy it?
Have you seen this logo?
Shortlisted Books voting
Vote for your favourite book in the Early Childhood or Picture Book catergory.
Survey Monkey
Click Here to take survey
ICT Tool – Might be useful for student collaboration?!
Copytaste
“CopyTaste enables you to create your own private URL with the data you wish to share with your friends or colleagues.
You can paste codes, tips or stories into the text editor, upload an image or a video file, or share a video link from any video streaming site.
And the best part is that you can do all of these at once without any registration required!”
See the author and illustrator workshop photos
These photos are from last week’s visting author and illustrator workshops. View the show and leave a comment.
Visiting Author and Illustrator on PhotoPeach
Term 3 …. BOOK SAFARI WORLD SAFARI….
Last week we were lucky enough to have two guest speakers – James Roy and Susy Boyer.
Susy presented her work to Prep – Year 2 students explaining her job illustrating picture books. We now have a copy of The Gobbling Tree– thank you!
James Roy presented to Year 4 and Yr 7 students. Additionally he presented a separate writing workshop for each Year 6 class. Check out his website and try out the magnetic poetry.
James’ latest book – Edsel Grizzler , The Voyage to Verdada is also now in our library. You can also view a trailer (UTube) for this novel. Check it out.
Great entertainment – with useful tips to improve your writing skills!
Thanks James.
Let me know what you thought of the Author Visits. Did you learn something new? Were they interesting, entertaining ….?
Who would else would you like to see (Australian authors/illustrators)?
MS Readathon – new students registered!
Congratulations to Misha, Morgan and Nikita who have registered for the MS Readthon.
If you were thinking of registering – it’s not too late.
Go to MS Readathon. Do it now!
Year 1 Jack and the Beanstalk
Year 1P analysed the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
They looked at the character of Jack using the ReadWriteThink storymapping tool.
One group of students created this jack-description.
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