Latest Happenings from Mrs Nay's library

It is time to visit your local library for so many reasons

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The Coffs City library has a huge array of resources which includes books, magazines, music CDs, DVDs and audio-books. In fact the library holds over 90,000 items!

Your library card provides you with access to SOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!

Don't miss out. Become a MEMBER

Get your library card ASAP!!

Take your children along to the

FREE CHRISTMAS CRAFT ACTIVITY

Join in their Weekly Events

Children's Storytime @ your library, 11:00 - 11:45 AM

Weekly storytime for pre-school aged children.

- Tuesdays @ Woolgoolga

- Wednesdays @ Coffs Harbour

- Thursdays @ Toormina

Summer Reading Club

2011-12 Summer Reading Club - The Amazing Read!

The Summer Reading Club is a great opportunity for school aged children to explore the amazing world of books and stories during the summer school holidays. The library supports the SRC with fun activity kits for all children who participate, including ideas of interesting books to read!

All books read during the Summer Reading Club from the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge lists can be included in the 2012 challenge totals!!

The library has access to many of the

books.

Start your reading now and get a headstart for 2012!!

LAST chance to get those Woolies dockets to school.

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Thankyou to all the wonderful people who
helped us collect our points. Many were
friends and relatives from other areas
of Australia. Your efforts are appreciated. :)

What can we get for our school?
We have 3,845 points....

From more than 7,000 educational resources

which are up for grabs including library books,

classroom equipment, art & craft materials we

can get some new gear. It takes many points

to get the resources.

Teachers are hoping to get some resources

that will help our students have more

opportunities to be creative and artistic by

being better resourced for art and painting

lessons.

It is the very last chance to send in any dockets

that you still have at home, or email Woolies to

inform them to add your online points to our school,

so they can be included.

Simply email Woolworths Online Customer

service at shoponline @woolworths.com.au,

Your nominated school name and suburb today

with the subject "Earn and Learn with Woolworths."

Woolies have extended their Earn and Learn points campaign!!

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Extended to October 18.....Keep collecting....

When you shop in store at Woolworths the points automatically appear on your shopping dockets, so all you need to do is bring those dockets to school.

The more points you bring in, the more we can redeem from a choice of more than 7,000 educational resources including library books, classroom equipment, art & crafts materials and much, much more!

Help Woolies to help our school. Collect as many Earn & Learn points as you can!

Did you know that now you can also collect Earn & Learn points for your local school just by placing an order with Woolworths online?

To ensure that Sandy Beach Public School gets your points:

Simply email Woolworths Online Customer service at shoponline@woolworths.com.au your nominated school name and suburb today with subject: "Earn and Learn with Woolworths online", and Woolworths will add the points to your nominated schools tally at the end of campaign.So, what are you waiting for? Instore or online shopping creates points for the school to use so we can redeem educational resources including library books, classroom equipment, art & crafts materials and more!

Premier's Reading Challenge is almost completed for the year

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In this post I am sharing some important points from the NSW Premier, Barry
O'Farrell MP, to highlight the value of completing this challenge:"With the Reading

Challenge students are able to choose from an extensive and exciting list of books that
offer all kinds of fiction and non-fiction reading adventures.

In making your choices, I urge all of you to read as widely as possible. Explore the different categories and discover new treasures to enrich your reading experience.
Through books you will acquire knowledge, develop your imagination and improve your mind."

to all of our students that have

successfully completed the 2011 PRC!!

Starting daily affirmations....from this Monday

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In keeping with our library rule: "Be Kind" we will start with this affirmation for our first:

Time to get finalising the challenge

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Students are busy visiting the PRC site to enter the titles of the books they have read. Find out how in the link below:

Upload the titles read

2011 PRC Celebrations on PhotoPeach
2011 PRC Celebrations on PhotoPeach

KG have fun with Noni, the Pony.

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Click on the image to do the puzzle of Noni, the pony.

Visit Mrs B's Interactive Literacy website to enjoy many fun puzzles and other activities.
Noni the Pony on PhotoPeachNoni the Pony on PhotoPeach

KS enjoy The Tall Man and the twelve babies

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Click on the image to visit Mrs B's Interactive literacy site which includes a puzzle of the cover of the Tall Man.

Stay tuned for students work samples soon.

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Woolworths Earn and Learn

From now to September 18^th 2011, we receive 1 Woolworths Earn & Learn point for every $10 you spend in store.When the program ends schools redeem points against a choice of more than 7,000 educational resources. Points will automatically appear on your shopping dockets, which you simply take to your school. Schools can then collect and upload their points. Have some questions? Check the FAQs. You can get your neighbours and family members to give your shopping dockets with points to our school. Woolworths Earn & Learn are not open to Childcare Centres, Playgroups, Pre-schools or Family day-care so this is the chance to help your local Primary school.

These are some of the things that I would love to earn

for our library:

Giant Comfy Cushions Set of 4

Turn any spot in the classroom into a cozy place to relax with these jumbo-sized pillows that children can rest, lean or sit right on. Each cushy pillow has an inner core filled with super soft foam plus a durable cotton-polyester cover that zips off for machine washing. Each pillow measures 100 x 100 x 25cm.

Globe Carpet 2 X 2M

Globe Carpet 2 X 2M. The fun and bright designs delight the senses and stimulate the mind, offering a platform for learning through colour, shape and conversation. Bright and colourful, the carpet has sturdy rubber backing for strength and support.
Some of the additional titles we would love to have

in the library:

Max Remy Superspy 01 In Search Of The Time

For library celebrations:

Big Bubbles Kit 20 pcs

Big, beautiful bubbles are easy to make and fascinating to explore with this fun-filled kit! Simply dip the wand in the solution and blow or glide through the air to create fun shapes.

For creative constructions in recreation time: Translucent Coloured Blocks Add an exciting new dimension to architectural design and construction play. Set contains 84 building blocks (pillar, arch, bridge, diagonal tile, semi-cone, cuboid, tile) in light green, red, dark green and orange or translucent white. Also has 14 transparent bases. 84 blocks. Ages 3+

Our new library hosts its initial bookfair.

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Lights! Camera! BOOKFAIR!

Our very first bookfair in the library!

Kids viewing the books available at the bookfair.

Students reading, drawing and browsing in our new library.

Year One share some of their illustrations.

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See what our kids get up to in the library at lunchtime.

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Lunchtime activities in our library. on PhotoPeach

A big thank you to all helpers- what a great result from the bookfair.

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Lots of lovely new books to read. on PhotoPeach

We earned approx $2000 worth of new books!!
There are so many wonderful reads to be added to our library!!

"Seven Little Australians" come to Coffs Harbour

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Please find attached a copy of a page for a “Colouring Competition” being held by Coffs Harbour City Library. Children can download, print and colour in the page then return them to school for later delivery to the local libraries. It is an extra activity that the children may or may not decide to share in. I will also make some copies available in the library for the morning "Homework Hub" and also during the lunchtime openings.

To promote the staging of the Seven Little Australians at the Jetty Theatre, and the exhibition of original oil paintings from the book at the Bunker Cartoon Gallery, we're holding a colouring competition for school students.

Entries can be returned to school or directly to any branch of the library, and the closing date is 31^st July 2011.

Entries will be displayed at the libraries, and at The Jetty Theatre.

Your family may like to share in some of the following events:
Seven Little Australians Associated functions:-

¨ Oil Paintings by John Lennox: Bunker Cartoon Gallery Exhibition, 24^th June-16^th July

¨ Family Movie Night: Coffs Harbour City Library, Fri 1^st July @ 6.30pm

¨ Edwardian Morning Tea & Display: Coffs Harbour Library, Thurs 7^th July @ 11.00am

¨ CHATS Production: The Jetty Memorial Theatre, 22^nd July-31^st July

Art supplies will be awarded as the prizes,
with sections being:

Preschoolers
K – 2
3 – 6
7 – 12

Our very first debate was held!!

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Sandy Beach Public School hosted a team from Woolgoolga Public School for our very first debate in our new library learning space.

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We had a most successful celebration of reading on Thursday.

Thank you to all the parents, friends, staff and students who took part in some way to make our celebration of reading such a success!!

I was able to select just over $2000 worth of books, that the children had suggested, with the commission. These books will be added to our current selection in the library as soon as we can get them processed and ready for reading!!

Our P&C generously donated $500 for board games for classes this week.

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What good timing!! BTN showed this program last week about board games:(You can access BTN archives and view past episodes.)
From all the kids and the staff at SBPS I wish to publicly say: Thank you to all the parents who helped to raise the money for the kids to have these games in their classrooms.
As a parent you might be thinking: "Why play games at school? There is so much learning to do..." but as Kirsty says on the program: "Thinking before you take action is one of many skills these students have learnt. There's also problem solving, developing strategy, using your memory and being a good sport. And it's a good way to improve your social skills."

Have a chat with your kids: What board games would they like to have in their classroom?
Please feel welcome to share them here on this blog. :)

Take a look back at 2009 Bookfair

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2009 Bookfair- Our very last one in the old library!!!

2009 Book Character Parade

At last: Our library learning lounge opens for its first lunchtime!!

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Our library learning lounge opens for its first lunchtime at last!!! on PhotoPeach.

We have come a long way since these slideshows: Check out the animoto slideshow of "Our new BER library" and the photopeach of "Our first impressions of our new BER library."

Announcing the 2011 SBPS Bookfair!!!

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Our annual Book Fair is coming up on Thursday 26th May.This is a great way to provide more stimulating books for your children to read and a great way to highlight and celebrate the joy of reading!

This year the theme is:

Lights, Camera, BOOKFAIR!

The Scholastic truck will arrive on Friday 20th May so we can set up. This year we will hold the Book Fair in the new BER library. Come along and check it out!

The Book Character Parade and Book Fair sale day will be held on Thursday 26th May.

The Book Fair will be open from 8am-6pm.

We look forward to seeing lots of parents and friends join us on this day for a huge celebration of “reading.” Students can come to school dressed up as any one of their favourite book characters.

We encourage, where possible, students to bring along a book that displays their character for sharing with visitors and their classmates. It can be a book from home, the public library, Grandma’s or our library...

Parents and family are welcome to join their children for recess and then a brief book sharing time in the classroom.

The Book Character Parade will commence at 12.15. Parents and friends are also welcome to join their children for lunch. Our canteen will be catering for this event.

After each class presents their book characters in the parade we will do 1 x lucky draw for a “poster pick” from the Bookfair = 13 lucky winners!!

Book Fair Program of Events

Thursday 26th May 2011 – parents, family and friends are welcome to join us for:

Morning Tea – 11.15

Class “read in” from 11.40

Book Character Parade commencing at 12.15

Lunch – 1.15

The Library will be open from 8.00am until 6.00pm selling books and we look forward to seeing you on the day.

Come one, come all!!

Come and check out our new library learning lounge.
Remember the fun of last years bookfair:

and last years book character parade...

Visit our new LIBRARY tab on our new school website.

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Visit our library tab on our Sandy Beach Public School's new website

LIBRARY and you will find:

SBPS Library 4 Lifelong Learningweblinks

-Virtual Library 24/7

This site provides access to weblinks, web tools and e-resources to support
teaching and learning for staff and students, parents and carers
@ Sandy Beach Public School.

and this weeks news: Check out the photopeach of:

Our first impressions of our new BER library on PhotoPeach

Sharing the e-books so you can search and find them in the holidays.

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Enjoy these e-books from Fraboom- Online Children's Museum:

We are on our way to our new BER library.

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I would like to say a BIG thank you to all the wonderful parents and carers who have come along and helped me with the move.
Your help is really appreciated.
I could not have managed without you!!

Sandy Beach school kids are working hard on improving their spelling.

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I have had parents asking for online games for extra reinforcement.
Here are some great games to try for spelling:
starting with:

SCRAMBLESAURUS

SPELLING MATCH

Help Dobie find treasure under the sea by

matching letter patterns and word parts to spell words.

* choose your class and then the unit....

Thie time it really is 1O's work!!

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Make Books Online at Bookemon!	read	send

These are our drawings of the tooth fairy from 1B

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Year 1 B share their 2011 tooth fairies with you.
Year 1 B's tooth fairies on PhotoPeach (not 1O as I previously stated)

Watch our show in a spiral version:
Year 1 O's tooth fairies on PhotoPeach

Check out all the countries involved in the TOOTH TALLY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM this year

Kinders in library in week 6.

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Kinders in library in week 6. on PhotoPeach

Yr 4 welcome kinder kids to our library.

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Yr 4 welcome kinder kids to our library. on PhotoPeach

2l from Dubbo share their results from February's Tooth Tally

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Tooth Tally February on PhotoPeach

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2011 Tooth Tally is up and counting...

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Tooth Tally Project The Tooth Tally Project gives teachers a way to integrate an important event in the life of a child - losing a tooth - with reading, maths, writing, social studies and technology.

Using "lost tooth" data collected in the classroom, students will practice counting skills and collecting data. They will learn to make and interpret graphs, use descriptive text, develop mapping skills and collaborate internationally with their peers using the Internet.

It's a wonderful opportunity for children to realise that in spite of many differences children all around the world have many similarities, too.

Check out where all the kids and the classes participating are from on the world map

Our baby teeth came out on PhotoPeach:

Here is the 2011 Tooth Fairy's description:

The Tooth Fairy has long black hair that blows in the wind. She is smiling. She wears a long, pink dress with yellow stars on it and green slippers. She carries a black purse to keep the teeth in. She has two wings that look like butterfly wings. They are yellow, pink and green. Her wand has a green handle and a star at the end. It sparkles to help her see in the dark.

I will share our kids drawings in the next post.

Year 4 helped our new kindy's with their first class visit to the library.

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Year 4 students were so responsible and helpful with our new kindergarten kids. I was so proud of them. They were kind and caring.

Year 4 students showed the new kindy's all around the library and pointed out where they could find all the important things like picture books, non-fiction books, paper, scissors, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, computers,cushions.....

They also showed them the blocks and the phones which are available to play with during 2nd half of lunch-times. Year 4 students helped the little ones choose a book to suit, often read some or all of the book to them and then helped them to the check out area. Their help was invaluable.

Yr 4 welcome kinder kids to our library on PhotoPeach

Year 6 really enjoyed their excursion to Canberra.

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Yr 6 reflect on their years of learning so far.....

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Year 6 share their learning....enjoy some of their presentations

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Kye shares his reflection presentation from Pre-school to year 6 using glogster as his tool of choice.

Portfolio: s38cyxp | Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students
I apologise that it is not in order.

2010 NSW PRC Gold Honour Roll

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Congratulations to the 30 students from Sandy Beach Public School who earned their Gold award this year. Check out your names on the Honour Roll.

Sandy Beach School Fete 2010

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Sandy Beach Public School 2010 Fete on PhotoPeach

Thank you to everyone who organised, helped and supported the fete. It was from all accounts fun and successful.

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Sandy Beach Public School 2010 Presentation Day on PhotoPeach

Congratulations on a very entertaining musical K-2 students and staff.

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Some of our students have been selected to join in a new NSWDET initiative

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Thursday 4 November is the inaugural RAMS video conference. Our kids are really excited and keen to fins out more about the first tool to be shared "Xtranormal" where you can make 3D movies for free.

Image via CrunchBase

"Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century." Jane Hart Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

#RAMS Students teaching students

Enjoy the following Xtranormal videos:

Interview with Neil Armstrong from George of Year 3 BlogDogs

Interview with an astronaut by Jack and Lachlan, also of the Blog Dogs Year 3 class.

For more information about #RAMS check out: Rams Video Conferencing Wiki

Congratulations to our great orators.

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Congratulations to our Sandy Beach Public School Great Debate Team

Our team won the 2010 Northern Beaches Public Schools Great Debate Competition

Well done Zoe, Masyn, Liljana and Oliviah.

Congratulations also goes to Liljana for her wonderful delivery of her speeches.

Liljana won the 2010 Multicultural Perspective Public Speaking Competition in our area.

Our Bike Safety Day was great fun and educational.

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Thanks to all the parents and carers who brought in bikes or items to push, for their children to participate. We had a huge range of wheeled items from strollers to wheelbarrows!

The three stations that the kids attended all offered different challenges. Lots of skills were tested! Many signs had to be read!

A big thank you Mrs Murtha and Graeme who set up the course and to Mr Holmes for running the day. You only had to look at the kids' faces to see what they thought of the experience.

Congratulations to the Sandy Beach School Community-Great result for the Wheelathon

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Over $7000 raised!!
An announcement will be made when a final decision is made about where to spend these valuable funds.

Many thanks to all who contributed to this success!

Lots of very lucky kids went home today with some terrific prizes.

Free interactive eStories to enjoy over the holidays from TheLittleBookClub

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Cat by Mike Dumbleton & Craig Smith

Boom Bah! by Phil Cummings & Nina Rycroft

The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner
This book was one of the shortlisted books this year by CBCA.

These books are available in seven languages.

3H would like to see us use the existing library as outlined below.

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We have been discussing the needs of the school community.

We will be contemplating this issue for some time, until everyone gets a chance to have their say and then a decision will be made.

We have a new blog at Sandy Beach Public School......

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NSWDET introduced a new blogging platform for students to use safely both at school and from home through their portal- BlogED.

This is a new learning tool for students to learn to use.

SBPS Library's first BlogED blog is now up and running-

It is:

Read this book-You JUST MUST!

September Springtime Search and Seek.........

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We know that some books have a habit of playing hide and seek......

Often they hide so well no-one finds them for ages.

We have had as many as 21, 32, and 36 books sent back to us as a package, when students have finished primary school and parents have a really big clean up.

We are always delighted to see our books return back to our library-which belongs to all of our students!!!

As we will soon have a lovely new set up at S.B.P.S. with our new 21C library and three new 21C classrooms S.B.P.S. staff and students would love to ensure that all our resources are available and ready for action!!

Please have a really good hunt...play detectives for an hour or so in all the likely and unlikely hiding holes. Don't forget the car and the bottom of the lego box. You would be surprised where we have heard that books have found to hide in the past!!

Please make

by returning all books with a SBPS barcode on them!

Click here if you like to create your own old WANTED poster?

Year 6 are working on a reflective portfolio in library.

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I am encouraging year 6 students to use a number of different presentation tools to present their portfolio. One tool is Prezi.

Definition from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames."

Here is a Prezi about Mrs Lofton -a TL I met on twitter.

About Mrs. Lofton on Prezi

The Prezi demonstrates a very simple autobiographical outline of her life.

Year 6 students are being encouraged to search for copies of photos, awards, school work or any special reminders of their past years at primary school.

They need to use digital copies for their work. Digital copies can be created at home, if it is possible. Copies can be emailed to the student or can be transferred via a thumb dive-(memory stick)

Year 6 students can bring their hard copies to school if the necessary equipment and know-how is not available at home to transform them into digital format.

I am happy to help students with this process before school each day and at lunch times as there is not enough time in their library lesson to help all students at once.

New Kinder enrolments are now being taken for 2011

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KINDER 2011 ENROLMENT APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY BEING TAKEN.

Excitment grows as everyone in primary gets ready for the Kids in Camelot performance.

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The Wonky Donkey is a delight!

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This book, The Wonky Donkey, is going to be part of our Special Collection section of our new library.

Students who are triple R (RRR) borrowers will be allowed to borrow these books.

(Regular, Responsible, Reliable borrowers.)

To watch a book trailer on The Wonky Donkey go to Scholastic Australia and press the play button on the Wonky Donkey image in the Latest Video section.

To listen to Craig Smith singing his story check out his video- Wonkey Donkey

There's more:See Craig perform Wonkey Donkey in front of a live audience and a real donkey ...

K1/0 and 5/6I loved this story today.

Craig Smith delights and entertains as he shares the story on the CD provided with the book.

It really adds that extra dimension to the reading experience.You cannot help but join in as Craig sings the story verse.

Enjoy some of our kids drawings of the Wonky Donkey:

Hee Haw!!

Our students have been visiting Healthy Harold in his special caravan classroom.

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If you or you child would like to learn some more about the Healthy Harold program or access some Healthy Harold games please visit the links.

Don't forget to follow Healthy Harold's tips.

These were some of our favourite books......What about now?

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View this Photopeach slideshow from our new BlogED blog-Read This-You Just Must!!

Photopeach is a very easy tool to use. It has a variety of applications from displaying students work or school events, to create multiple choice quizzes with a timer and the creation of digital stories.
.

View the spiral view below...

These were a few of our favourite books.... on PhotoPeach

Wow-we see framework on our new library.

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Our new 21C BER School Library takes shape!!

The last piece of the roof frame goes in....

We are so lucky to have such a green environment.....

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Juliet Robertson commented in response to Ed's blog post: 10 ways to think about your learning space…

"There is substantial research about the positive impact of having access to greenspace and natural materials. The more “green and blue” in your learning environment, the calmer and less stressed everyone is (Wells & Lekkie, 2000). Adults and children. Have lots of plants in your room (why not grow a forest). Furthermore a PhD student, Kathleen Bagot (2009) from Melbourne has conclusively linked the amount of vegetation in primary school grounds to concentration levels and subsequent impact on attainment levels within schools.

It prompted me to share some of our gorgeous gardens around our school thanks to Pat's dedication and hard work.

Zone Athletics- Good luck girls and boys!!

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Congratulations
to all the winners at our athletics carnival .

Good luck to the following students who will be going on to represent our school at the

Mid North Coast PSSA Zone Athletics Carnival

on Friday 20th August.

Jana                                             Riley
Gabi                                             Kye
Lily                                              Josh
Annabelle    Ashley
Billee     Dane
Summer                                       Byron
Dakota                                         Tom
Billi                                             Jesse
Chloe     Logan
Jade

40 kilos of lego will be available for bridge building at the library.

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Coffs Harbour City Library

will be hosting a free bridge building, fun, children's activity to celebrate Story Bridge Book Week.

Check out the details.

Father's Day stall coming up soon...

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Our Father’s Day stall will be held on Tuesday 31st August.

Gifts will cost $5.00

HELP!! Donations (for the hamper raffle)

and volunteers needed!!

See Help needed for Father's Day stall on our Parents-Partners in teaching and learning blog

What will you buy for your Dad?
Will you do something special for your father this year?

4C share their recently completed, beautiful art works.

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Vocab: Word of the day

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Word of the day: ZANY

Do you know what it means?

Enjoy some of the Shortlisted Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) books

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Click on the title to hear Len read: The Terrible Plop one of the shortlisted picture book from 2010 CBCA .
You could try to draw your own bear after watching this short video:

How to draw a bear (from The Terrible Plop) from Andy Joyner on Vimeo.

You can visit Mrs B's interactive books to do some activites, including puzzles, based on the 2008, 2009 and 2010 shortlisted picture books, early childhood books, and books for younger readers.

Year 1 read:I don't want a posh dog!! and then proceeded to draw the dogs they would like!!

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3 H and 3 E explore the character Fearless in a 2010 CBCA shortlisted picture book.

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3H and 3E created a wordle using words that they chose to describe the dog in the story "Fearless."

Fearless certainly wasn't!

Our 21C Sandy Beach Public School Library is on its way.....

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Have a read of a Storybird story I created:

Our 21C Sandy Beach Public School Library is on its way.....

Kids' who read, succeed!!!

Cheers

:-)

1M sharing our library rule with you....

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SBPS hall becomes a Bookfair!! SBPS kids are real book characters!!

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Congratulations to the winners of our "Be Well Read" Bookfair competitions.

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Family Competition: Favourite Book Winners:

1st place - Beedie Family -$25

2nd place - Fleutcher Family -$20

3rd place - Redshaw Family-$15
Highly Commended - Meale Family -$10
Special mention to Patricia in Year 6 who produced a glogster (online interactive poster) after giving up her time at luh time to learn about this new Web 2.0 tool.

Special Reading Spot Competition:
It was so wonderful to see all the places that people like to read in. I hope to place some of the images in a post after the bookfair is finished so we can share them with you.
The three winners, of a $10 voucher each, are :
Billi -Year 6
Luke - Kinder
Holly - Year 3

The Way We Were

2010-06-08T16:54:00.000+10:00

Looking back a few years....

2005 Education Week

Have fun looking at last years book character parade too!

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2010 Book Character Parade was fun!!

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The "Be Well Read" Bookfair was also very successful.

Thank you everyone who supported our students.
We sold over $6500 worth of books which gives our students well over $2300 worth of great new books for their library.

Congratulations and good luck to SBPS Cross Country representatives.

2010-05-23T22:09:00.000+10:00

District Cross Country Results

The following students will be going on to compete at the

Mid North Coast Cross Country

on 28th May

at Gillwinga Public School, South Grafton.

Congratulations to:

                   8/9 Yrs
Girls                        Boys

Sasha                                       Ashley

Jana

Chloe

                   10 Yrs

Summer                                Riley

                   11 Yrs

                                             Finn

                                             Matthew

                  12/13 Yrs

Dakota                                 Tom

Amy                                     Marual

Our hall is ready- Very REDdy!! BE WELL READ Bookfair begins.

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Many thanks to the parents, teachers and students that helped to make the hall look like a very special place to visit.

All of the students will get the opportunity to browse the books before Thursday and make decisions about any they might like to purchase. We also encourage all students from Kinders to Year 6 to make recommendations about the books they would like to have included in their school library collection. It is really important that we include the books in the library that are interesting to our students. Our annual bookfair provides this opportunity.

It was great to hear one students asking for a particular books for his Grandma because it was her birthday soon. I am sure that she would appreciate his thoughtfulness and enjoy a book for her present.

We are allowed 35% of our sales back in commission which allows us to select many, and often most of the books the students recommend. We look forward to your company on Thursday 27 May- Public Education Day.

The Scholastic truck is due this Friday!!

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Have a look at last years Bookfair and:

Let's make this years even better!

2010 "Be Well Read" Bookfair

"Be Well Read" Bookfair.

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LIBRARY NEWS

Our “BE WELL READ” Bookfair is getting closer. The truck full of exciting reads will arrive on Friday 21 May.

After setting up and decorating the hall we will be ready for classes to check out the selection from Monday of the following week.

The book character parade and bookfair sales day will be held on Thursday 27 May. We look forward to seeing lots of parents and friends join us on this day for a huge celebration of “reading.”

Students can dress up as any of their favourite book characters. We encourage them where possible to bring along a book that displays their character for sharing with their visitors and/or their classmates. It can be a book from home, public library, Grandma’s, our library...

After each class parades and share their book characters with us we will do 1 x lucky draw for a “poster pick” from the bookfair = 13 lucky winners!!

PRIZES GALORE!!

We would like to put together a display :
“These are a few of our favourite spots to read....”

We are offering 3x $10 bookfair vouchers for students who bring in a photo of themselves reading in a “special spot.”

I like to read in/ at/under/beside.....anyone of these will be fine. We will draw out three lucky winners and announce them in the newsletter before the bookfair.

EVEN MORE PRIZES- Family Competition

1 x $25, $20,& $15 bookfair vouchers to win

“Share your family’s favourite fun read.”

Create a visual presentation of your book and explain WHY it is so popular for your family. It can be in any format of your choice from dioramas, posters, digital presentation-glogster, powerpoint, paint....

Have fun being creative as a team!!

Our "Be Well Read" Bookfair is all about inspiring and encouraging kids to read widely.

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This video may well help too!

BEWARE! It is very catchy!!
I can't get the tune out of my head.

A copy of the lyrics are available.

Class Competition-Creative Easter displays using Norco bottletops

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Mrs Carter and Year 4-5T created a "gorgeous basket of easter eggs" out of their bottle tops.

Mr Murgatroyd and 6M's Easter creation using their bottle tops.

A big thank you to all of the parents and kids who were involved in collecting and creating Easter designs.

The bottletops are on their way to be cashed in for the school.

Building Education Revolution comes to Sandy Beach

2010-04-26T18:21:00.000+10:00

New Library Site-bottom view


New Library Site-top view

It's ready, set, go!!

More kids have lost teeth.

2010-03-30T21:41:00.000+11:00

DOUBLE UP borrowing for the holidays

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If you would like to enjoy DOUBLE UP borrowing

you need to have returned all your books, i.e., have no overdues.

All students should bring their books and library bags

for borrowing this week even if they may miss their lessons

due to extra special events.

We will organise their borrowing so they don't miss out.

2010-03-29T13:37:00.000+11:00

Fantastic news!!

SBPS has many students finished the 2010 Challenge!!!

and there are still one and a half terms left to read.

Keep up the great work!

I will put the names of students that are finished in next terms’ newsletter. We are planning on having a celebration for all the kids that are finished in Week 2 of Term 2.

Please encourage your children to find time to enjoy some reading during the holidays.

“DOUBLE UP” borrowing is available for the holidays for children with no overdues.

Our new library is due to start!!!!

2010-03-29T12:25:00.001+11:00

Minister's Welcome Message from NSW BER on Vimeo.

The NSW Minister for Education and Training, Verity Firth,

welcomes visitors to the

Building the Education Revolution website.

This video portrays a library for a larger school than Sandy Beach, but it will give you an idea of what our new library will look like-ours will be a little smaller.

Library from NSW BER on Vimeo.

SBPS has selected a new library as part of the

Primary Schools for the 21st Century program.

Come along and join the fun @ SBPS's Annual Easter Hat Parade

2010-03-15T22:42:00.000+11:00

Yes, it’s that time of year again - our annual Easter Raffle and Hat Parade which is to be held on Thursday 1 April at 11.50am.

I am asking for donations of Easter Eggs to make up as many prizes as possible for our annual Easter Egg Raffle which can be left at the front office. Special thanks to those families who’ve already sent some eggs in, it is greatly appreciated.

Books of 5 tickets to sell will be sent home with all children this week. If you would like some additional books please see the office.
All books and money must be returned by Friday 26th March to be included in the draw.

Thank you for your anticipated help.
Leonie Smith
Assistant Principal

Sandy Beach Public School is celebrating Australia's diversity.

2010-03-15T22:32:00.000+11:00

HARMONY DAY

We are celebrating Harmony Day on Friday 19 March.

The 2010 theme is ‘Express Yourself’.

Continuing theme: EVERYONE BELONGS

Harmony Day is about bringing people together to promote community harmony, participation and cultural diversity across Australia.

2CK's Tooth Fairies

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Presenting 2CK's Tooth Fairies for your enjoyment.

2010 Premier's Reading Challenge

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A record-breaking 180,142 students in over 2,000 schools met the Challenge in 2009! Congratulations to the students

and thanks to the parents,

teachers,

public and teacher-librarians

who helped them discover books and complete records.

Your school is automatically registered when one of your students enters a book read on his/her online reading record. (We are registered and on our way!!)

There will be randomly selected early bird rewards for students

who start their reading records in March.

Congratulations to our representative swimmers

2010-03-09T21:51:00.001+11:00

CONGRATULATIONS to Kiahni , Kelsey , Julia and Zoe who represented Sandy Beach PS @Zone Swimming.

All girls swam a personal BEST!!!which is FANTASTIC!!

Kiahni also did well representing our school in 10 yr girl butterfly event.

Wallwisher

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Wallwisher is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily.

How do I post on the wall?
Double click anywhere on the wall, buddy..!
Please join in the fun.
As the wall is moderated your post will not appear immediately.
Cheers
:-)

Welcome to our first wallwisher. Why don't you post something to it?

Congratulations to all the Aussie students who participated. Australian students scored very well!!

2010-03-09T10:47:00.002+11:00

World Maths Day is all over!

Congratulations on a new World Record!

1,133,246 students and 56,082 schools from 235 countries have united to set a new world record by correctly answering 479,732,613 questions.

The validation process for the winners in each category, and the leading countries – results are posted @ http://www.worldmathsday.com/2010/Default.aspx

2011 will be even bigger with World Maths Day becoming part of the

The World Education Games.

Everyone is invited to unite the world in learning!

Result summary:

Ages 5-8 section:

An Australian student in the top 10- Aiden who played 500 games with a score of 28114

Ages 9-13 section:
Australian students were in the top 3 places. Cool calculating!

Kaya G from Southport School Australia, who played 500 games and came 1^st!! with 43007 points

Caleb L from The Australian International School United Arab Emirates played 500 games and came 2^ndwith 35235 points

Brody H Team Australia played 500 games and came 3^rd with 32507 points

Ages 14-18 section:

Australian students were in the top 2 places. Fantastic!

2010 Tooth Fairy has a message for you

2010-02-25T23:20:00.002+11:00

Click on the play button to hear the Tooth Fairy message.

Get a Voki now!

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

2010 World Maths Day practice time!! Be ready for March 3!! next Wednesday.

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Students go to World Maths Day 2010
Click on Sign In - yellow box on the top right and then
use their individual log ons that they were given by their teacher.

Have fun competing against other kids from around the world.
Games are 60 secs long so:
take a deep breath before you start..
make sure you are comfortable....
Go!!

2010 Tooth Tally Project reveals many teeth are being lost.

2010-02-22T23:07:00.006+11:00

1-O Tooth Fairies 2010
1-2C Tooth Fairies 2010

1M presents their 2010 Tooth Fairy

Here are some of our kids that have lost teeth

since school began this year:

2010 Tooth Tally Fun has begun!! The 2010 description has been revealed.

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Students listened to this description and then drew what they though this years' fairy would look like from that description.

The Tooth Fairy likes to wear green from the very top of her head to the very tips of her toes. It is green like growing grass.

Sometimes, instead of her beautiful sparkly gown, she wears trousers so that she can fly from house to house in the twinkling of an eye.

As children dream, they may hear the tiny sound of the tinkling bell on the tip of her cap as she quietly visits them.

Share our drawings of the 2010 tooth fairy from 1-2 C.

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LIBRARY NEWS

Welcome to another fine year of learning in 2010! Our library is open Monday – Friday this year from 8.30 am parents are very welcome to come to the library with their children and read a story. This is a lovely, relaxing way to start the day.

LIBRARY LESSONS:

Mon     Tues     Wed   Thurs    Fri

3E         6M        KG

3H         6I         KS       4C         5A

2CK     K/1O    1M     4/5TC 1/2C

Students who can read well, have a chance to do well in all other areas they explore. They are not held back and frustrated because they can’t understand and interpret information.

Parents play a vital role in the education of their child. At Sandy Beach Public School (SBPS), we believe that a strong and supportive partnership between home and school improves children’s learning capabilities.

As parents/carers you can help them in many ways.

1.Read to them for fun – enjoy. Even just 10 minutes per school day = 50 minutes per week = 200 minutes per month = 2400 minutes per year. See it will add up!!!!!!! Does reading a bedtime story to your children every night really make that much difference?

YOU BET IT DOES! The research proves it!

This habit should start in a child’s first year of life, and continue throughout childhood. Even some children in Years 4, 5 & 6 enjoy it. Perhaps by then they will be the ones reading to their parents.

2. Encourage your children to read. 10 minutes per day = 2400 minutes per year, BUT 30 minutes per day = 7200 minutes per year!!! Imagine how well they would be reading by the end of the year!

3. Borrow regularly from libraries, including our school library.

4. Be involved in their schooling. Research shows that children, whose parents/carers are part of the team teaching and guiding them, do much better at school than others.

HELPERS
We value our wonderful helpers and would encourage more helpers to join the ranks because it helps free us to offer more services to the students and staff.

If you can help with library duties (either at home or at school) please fill out the form at the end of this newsletter and ask your child to return it to the library.

Please visit OUR SCHOOL BLOGS regularly:

SBPS Latest happenings

Mrs. Nay’s Internet Library Branch

Parents-partners in teaching and learning

Parents may also be interested in our other blog: These are a few of my favourite web2.0 things

Remember: “Kids who read, succeed”

Cheers :-) Mrs. Nay, Teacher – Librarian

Interested in finding out more about the MySchool website?

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Go to my Parents- Partners in learning blog

Try Sweet Search

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SweetSearch, a Search Engine for Students, searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been approved by our staff. SweetSearch allows students to choose the most relevant result from a list of credible results, without the distraction of unreliable sites.

Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.

Visit our Web Links for teachers and students, organized by subject and academic level.

Return to School + Snack Shack News

2010-01-20T11:01:00.006+11:00

2010 – Thursday 28th January – students Years 1 – 6 return to classes.

Tuesday 2nd February – Kindergarten students commence.

Snack Shack

Next year the canteen will be open five days a week from week 2.

However, it will not be open during the first two days – Thursday 28th and Friday 29th January, 2010.

Bring your own lunch for Thursday and Friday of the first week.

Kathy Pfitzner – Organiser

Have you lost your newsletter? Need some information about school events?

2009-12-16T10:58:00.002+11:00

SANDY BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER is available online each week.

The latest newsletter December 8, 2009

You can access it by going to the SANDY BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL website
and then clicking on the NEWSLETTERS tab.

You can then access any of the newsletters by their date-Term by Term!!

Holiday activities- Library Summer Reading Clubs are great and FREE!!

2009-12-16T10:12:00.001+11:00

Image by bowmanlibrary via Flickr

Don't forget to check out:

Coffs Harbour City Library Summer Reading Club

Year 6 Assembly and Farewell

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To all Year 6,
I wish you all the very best for the years ahead. Enjoy High School and take up as many of the opportunities it offers you as you can.

I'd like to share this little message from a past year 12 Woopi High student after leaving school and returning for a visit a year later:
Oh, wow..I wish I was back at school...they were the best days!!!

I hope that you will say the same thing when you look back on your experience.

Enjoy having your friends around you, lots of free time and plenty of great opportunities to learn about the world you live in, life and living happily!!

Cheers :-) Mrs Nay

Free Christmas Online Games for kids.

2009-12-07T10:13:00.000+11:00

Free Christmas Online Games

for kids of all ages.

To all of our wonderful volunteers at school-Thank you!!!.

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Thank you to all of you for giving your time

to help SBPS students.

We do appreciate it.