During Literacy Celebrations Week we will be participating in many literacy activities designed to engage, challenge and promote the value of literacy.
Some classes collaborating with other Junior School classes and in some cases with Senior School students. Other classes have connected their Units of Inquiry with literacy experiences.
We would like to share some of these experiences with you (stay tuned) in Week 9.
Literacy Celebrations Week @SALC
Literacy 2015 – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
The book is Too Many Elephants (shortlisted last year). We have three hard copies if you would like to borrow one to read to your students tomorrow. Alternatively watch the video below or the view book trailer. ALSO, the book is also translated into other languages – including Japanese (perfect!).
Sometimes it is hard to know where to get ideas to help your child with their reading.
Luckily there are many resources and books to give you ideas about how to do this.
READING RESOURCES (Books)
We have many books in the Parent Library that give ideas and support for promoting reading. One of these is Mem Fox’s Reading Magic. Please let us know if you would like to become a member of the Parent Library and borrow books from the Parent Library.
READING RESOURCES (online)
The following websites have great advice for parents.
RECOMMENDED READING – THE LIGHT BETWEEN THE OCEANS
ANZAC DAY
At this time of year, we reflect upon the sacrifices made by the diggers for our freedom. I personally love the many picture books that have been produced in the past few years that allow us to teach about ANZAC DAY with deeper meaning for younger students.
As a young adult I was introduced to Fly Away Peter by David Malouf. It is one that still invokes powerful memories for me. I suspect that this week’s READER FEATURE will be similar.
This week’s READER FEATURE has been written from the perspective of a returned solider.
iRe@d – READER FEATURE this week – The Light Between the Oceans by M. L. Stedman
The main character in this Australian novel is Tom Sherbourne, a returned solider who takes a job as a lighthouse keeper in WA.
This READER FEATURE is recommended by Lisa Roper (teacher).
“A decorated, but world weary war hero returns to Australia at the end of the First World War. All he hopes for is a quiet existence as far from the traumas of war as possible. A job as a light house keeper seems ideal, and he is satisfied – almost at peace.
And then life becomes more complicated. At first for the better, with a loving wife, and eventually a child on the way. But challenges, and difficult questions on what is right and wrong follow.
This book is evocative of the era and the place – a lighthouse off the coast of Western Australia. The pace moves along deceptively well, and the style is smooth. The reader’s connection with the characters is patiently and well developed, and the reader is swept up into the emotional ambiguity of the circumstances.” Review by Miles Roper.
