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?
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.
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.
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:
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
"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.
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:
