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Kindy kids have been making faces!!

Our faces on PhotoPeach Our faces on PhotoPeach

Would these book trailers help encourage you to read the books??

Book trailers are now a very important part of 

advertising newly published books.

They are a multimedia production.

Our students are going to explore some of the features 

that make them work or not. 

They will have the opportunity to storyboard and create 

their own book trailer

 on a book that they really really enjoyed.

They will need to explore many elements including, 

sound-sound effects, music, voice overs, images-photos, 

their own drawings, diagrams...maps..charts...

visual effects- long shots, close ups, use of spotlight.....

Viewing,  analysing, comparing and contrasting and 

evaluating created book trailers is a great place to start.

 (critical thinking at its finest!).

 Here are a few book trailers that the students will look at this week.

Visit BOOK TRAILERS FOR ALL 

for fantastic support resources.

Students are encouraged to become good readers.

     What could you do to be a GOOD reader, that you don't do YET?

We are exploring all the things good readers do....

Good readers:

*      borrow every week

*     read the books they borrow

*     find a safe place at home for their library books

*     remember their library bag and books each week

  *   borrow books from all the sections of the library

*     read regularly as part of their homework

*     search for great books

*     use the catalogue to find books they are interested in

*     find more interesting books by asking others for advice

*     check what NEW books have arrived in the library

*     value books as presents from their friends and family

What can you add to this list?

Stage One continue their learning about mini beasts in class and in the library.

Year one and two are enjoying studying many different mini beasts this term.
The students have located many great non-fiction books in our library 
and enjoyed sharing what they discovered. 
They complied  their very own "bug book" to learn from as they 
continue exploring the mini beast world.

Some of the students  were keen to take many of the books they found back for 
reading in their classrooms. 

This week in library they are viewing three multi-modal online stories  about caterpillars. Students will be taught how to navigate the websites to manage the different modes of delivery.

 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Welcome to The Official Eric Carle Web Site

Group worksheet

Metamorphosis a singing story from Mightybooks

and  BUGS from We Give Books

Our library rule is to ....

 Yes, that's it! BE KIND to everyone and everything! Thanks Year One 

                                                                                                                        Scan this QR code

 to access our school library catalogue.

Enjoy browsing at  our wide selection of wonderful books.

Most smartphones have a QR reader for this purpose.

Let's earn some more great gear to help our learning!!

Woolworths Earn & Learn 2013

This year we will be participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program again. Through this program we will be able to get new educational resources for our school – and all we need you to do is IF you shop for your groceries at Woolworths please accept the stickers and send them in with your children to their class teacher.

From Monday 8^th April to Sunday 9^th June, we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Points.  You will get one Woolworths Earn & Learn Point for every $10 spent (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Points onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Points Sheet and when it’s complete, the Points Sheet can be sent into school to your child's teacher.

Please invite any grandparents, friends, aunties to collect their stickers for you too (if they don't have primary students themselves.)

At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots of items ideal for our students. See what we earned last year:

Visit 2012 Earn and Learn Treasures to view them.

Celebrating Harmony Day

Sandy Beach Public School students will be celebrating Harmony Day this week. 

Welcome to Harmony Day

Harmony Day 21 March is a day of cultural respect for everyone who

calls Australia home –from the traditional owners of this land to those 

who have come from many countries around the world.

                                   

The message of Harmony Day is Everyone Belongs.

It is a day to celebrate Australia’s diversity.

 It is a day of cultural respect for everyone 

who calls Australia home – from the traditional owners of this land

 to those who have come from many countries around the world. 

We are celebrating Harmony Day  through storytelling. 

By participating in Harmony Day activities we can learn and 

understand how all Australians from diverse  backgrounds equally

 belong to this nation and make it a better place.

   
Students will explore the new online resources 
specially provided to help them understand their culture more deeply.

Teacher can use any of the IWB Harmony Day resources 
provided to enhance the students understanding.

You are invited to enjoy these local library happenings.

COFFS HARBOUR CITY LIBRARY 

presents:

AND

Be sure to take advantage of the CHCL weekly Storytime sessions as well.

Storytime sessions are held once a week at all library branches for 

pre-school aged children and are free.

Your pre-school children can also enjoy participating in the craft activities related to the books being read.

Location:	Day:	Time:
Coffs Harbour	Wednesdays	11.00-11.45 am
Toormina	Thursdays	11.00-11.45 am
Woolgoolga	Tuesdays	11.00-11.45 am

Our Year 6 students are very fortunate because the CHCL staff are preparing to visit and explain to our students all of the services and e-resources available to all library members.

MEMBERSHIP is free.

 If you are interested in joining the library and availing yourself of its wonderful FREE services and resources check out the CHCL membership info.

2012 Earn and Learn Treasures

2012 Earn and Learn Treasures arrive on PhotoPeach

Earn and Learn treasures arrive.

Kindy enjoy Pete the Cat this week

"Pete the Cat is back and this time, he's rockin' and groovin' in his SCHOOL shoes. Pete discovers the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and lots of other cool places at school. And no matter where he goes, Pete never stops moving and grooving and singing his song . . . because it's all good."

Where is Pete going?? Read and find out!


They had fun singing to his song "I'm rocking in my school shoes" and discovered Pete was off to the library-just like they were!! 

 HarperKids   presents: 

So much to see, so much to do @ your library!!

Don't miss this wonderful opportunity!!  Deb Abela Visiting Coffs Harbour Library

Well known children’s author Deb Abela, will be at the library on 18th September as part of her visit to the area. Deb will be conducting writing workshops at the library for primary school children throughout the day, and in the evening, you will have the opportunity to meet Deb as our guest speaker, at Coffs Harbour City Library. Deb will talk about her writing and her career as a writer.  She will also share some tips and ideas for writers on how to “get published”. To reserve a place at the evening with Deb, or to obtain further information about the scheduled writing workshops, contact the library. Deborah is proud to be a NSW National Year of Reading ambassador. Message shared from Coffs Harbour City Council Library  The library is very pleased to announce its new ebook and e-audiobook lending services for library members. Over 200 ebooks to download, including fiction, travel and biographies aimed for adult and young adult readers (ebooks are books in electronic format for reading on computers or electronic portable devices). Over 800 e-audiobooks to download, providing an extensive rang of fiction and non-fiction titles for all ages to listen to. A dozen pre-loaded genre-based e-readers for loan - for those who want to experience "e-reading" and who don't yet own their own device.  For further info visit Coffs Harbour City Council Library  Visit this library site for lots of interesting upcoming activities including Lego in the Library (school holiday activity); Michael Rothbottom-Michael grew up in Coffs Harbour and attended Orara High School. He worked as a journalist in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia before turning to writing novels. He will be speaking about Say you're sorry and his life as a writer at the C.ex Coffs Club on Wednesday 12th Sept 6pm for a 6.30 start. Check out information on National Year of Reading Children’s Creative writing / drawing competition for young authors and illustrators and                                50 Books You Can't Put Down 2012!

Kinders experience their first video conference.

                                           

      KE and KS in the Library Learning Lounge with the two presenters, Aleesah and Charlotte, seen on the television screen. Aleesah Darlison is an author of over 14 books and Charlotte was the animal keeper at the zoo. They both shared the responsibility of the presentations during the 45 minute video conference.

                      We used our IWB to see various displays and the story "Puggle's Problem."

Excitement plus this week in the library!!

Excitement plus this week in the library as Kinders 

Celebrate Book Week with a super-special VC 

with Taronga Western Plains Zoo & Aleesah Darlison

.

Book Week is celebrated each year to acknowledge the wonderful role that  books and stories play in our lives. It showcases new and exciting Australian  books and authors and highlights how important reading is. This year, Taronga Western Plains Zoo has joined forces with Literature Live! to bring you exciting, educational workshops. Lit Live Launch Show Part 1 Each session includes the author and founding member of Literature Live,  Aleesah Darlison, and Senior Education Officer at the Zoo, Kristy Robberts,  plus some very special live animal guests! Aleesah and Kristy will talk about books and animals. Aleesah will read her book, Puggle’s Problem, and  will explain the writing and illustration process. Kristy will introduce some amazing live Australian animals. Students will have time to interact and ask questions throughout. These workshops foster education and a love of animals and books. What better way to celebrate Book Week! Before the event you may like to view the Puggle’s Problem book trailer

What a delightful surprise!!

Arriving back at school after 3 weeks L.S.L. I was greeted by an excited teacher: "Welcome Back!" 
Mrs Reedy then bustled me towards her classroom and encouraged me to look at what had been done in the classroom to encourage her students to read more!!
Prior to leaving I had suggested that the teachers look at their classrooms and think about how inviting their reading areas currently were and consider improving them.

What an improvement there was!! 
As you stand at the classroom door now the first thing you see is the sign "Reading Rocks!" To the right of the sign are two stands containing a wide variety of books.

Our kindy kids found many great places to read in the holidays.

Kindy's Holiday Reading Spots on PhotoPeach

New Challenge for the students who have already completed the 2012 PRC!!

The students who have already completed the 2012 PRC will be taking on a

new challenge-

 To celebrate the National Year of Reading, students are challenge to create an eBooktrailer as a way of motivating others to read something that they really enjoyed.

Book trailers are similar to movie trailers, in that they are designed to build interest in a novel and to encourage people to read the book. The main difference is that a movie trailer is based on clips from the film.

 With a book trailer, the maker has to convert the written words into visual images, text and audio. A book trailer conveys a sense of what the book is about without giving anything away - and without really clearly defining what the characters, location and objects look like, allowing readers to visualise what they are reading about as they imagine it themselves.

Extended deadline Wed 1 August  See WeCreate website for further details

Further enquiries wecreate@det.nsw.edu.au

Fantastic prizes from our sponsors will be awarded 

at the ceremony at the

Sydney Opera House in November.

Students can start by viewing other student created booktrailers and 
deconstructing the features that are most effective.

Create book trailers to encourage reading.

It's getting closer!

Getting ready for 2012 Showtime Bookfair on PhotoPeach

BookFair Program and Happenings

The Scholastic truck will arrive on Thursday 17 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 if you have not yet had a chance! The Book Character Parade and Book Fair sale day will be held on Friday 25 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, Pop's, or from our library...  

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

          The Book Character Parade will commence at 12pm.  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 = 14 lucky winners!!  

Book Fair Program of Events

 

Friday 25 May 2012 – parents, family and friends are welcome to join us for:

 

Morning Tea and Read@recess – 11.15

Class “read@recess” from 11.40

Announcement of Prizes for great book recommendations.

Book Character Parade commencing at 12.00pm

Lunch – 1.15

The Library will be open from 8.00am until 6.00pm (but not during the book character parade)

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 and help us add some more stimulating, new books for our students.

A little nostalgia...A few of our past Bookfairs.

PAST BOOKFAIRS 

Providing students with a bookfair at school is a great way to provide an authentic learning and shopping experience. I can discover what books are exciting for your children to read and the book character parade and bookfair provide a great way to highlight and celebrate the joy of reading for all of our community!

2009 Our last in the old library...

2010 "BE WELL READ" Bookfair in the Hall

Make your own slideshow with music at Animoto.
What character are you thinking about dressing up as this year?
It is NOT about spending lots money on fancy outfits.
We want you to be creative and to recycle, re-use.
It is dress-up NOT fancy dress!



2009 SBPS Jurassic Park Competition on PhotoPeach


The competition proved how clever many of our students are and provided many great presentations.




This year's competition will be announced very soon.


The RESULT was many more new books were provided for you all to enjoy!
Lots of lovely new books to read. on PhotoPeach

I wonder what we will add this year. 
It is up to you to suggest what you would like to be added to your library. 
Make sure you make plenty of recommendations. 
There will be a box for each stage to add their suggestions. 
I will read them ALL as this helps me to know what to select from our commission.
I will also draw 2 suggestions from each stage and the winners will win a $10 book voucher each to spend at the bookfair.