Summer Reading Challenge

I'm thankful to the previous WPS students who loved helping in the library when they were at this school and come back every year to help out. Pictured here are Naomi and Bianca with their display for our Summer Reading Challenge. Now that all the books have been accounted for in the annual stock take, I can lend them out for summer, to help stop the summer reading slide.

If you read ten books and bring me your log next year you will be entered into a lucky draw for a prize.

You can also write book reviews on the books you read, on our school library website. Details are on the Summer Reading Challenge log.

Year 3-5 children have been invited to sign up and issue their books at morning tea today to get the ball rolling.

Parents of children in year 0-2 will need to sign up for juniors wanting to participate. You can pop in anytime between now and 1.30pm on Friday, during school hours.

There are a few criteria: 

• Children must have no outstanding books out.
• They will need a library bag to take the books home in
• Children need to commit to bringing the books back, undamaged next year

This is not open for year sixes, however, I wish the year sixes all the best with your new schools. We will miss you!

The Corr Challenge Shield was awarded to the school Librarians this year!

Congratulations to the school librarians for winning the Corr Challenge Shield this year.

Well done! It's a busy job being a school librarian - with all the shelving, issuing, returning, dusting, helping with displays - reading to the younger children, helping tidy up after lunch, helping with Lego club and more.

A special thanks to Thomas who was an immense help with this year's stocktake. Not only did he persistently visit classrooms to collect books, but he helped me with the actual stocktake: scanning and re-shelving and hunting for books at the end - always with a smile.

The children who were awarded 'Librarian of the term' this year were:

Term 1: Portia
Term 2: Nikola
Term 3: Cole & Daniel
Term 4: Ella, Jacob & Thomas

Ka Pai!

Book character dress up at the Reading Fair

 

 

 

 

 

 
Thank you for dressing up! It was such a fun day :) Thank-you to the year 3/4 councillors for taking wonderful pictures. 

Reading Fair boards

Congratulations to the Y6 book club for your creativity and effort in creating Reading Fair boards that inspire the imagination. The following four boards received a Highly Commended ribbon. Well done!

The Twits - Anya, Emma and Zoe

The Secret Tree - Sophie D and Sofia 

Famous Five - Five on a Treasure Island - Finn, Jacob & Ben

Famous Five - Five on a Treasure Island - Sian, Sean, Te-Aria & Ellie

The children chose who they would work with, and which book they wanted to represent. They were given a 'blank canvas' and they could use their imaginations to create a display board that reflected their chosen book. It was interesting to see Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl coming up strongly. Micah read the Famous Five on Treasure island to the children in his class, hence the renewed interest in Enid Blyton's classic series. 

The boards were judged by four volunteer judges - Nick, Micah, Jenny and Nadia. Thank-you so much for your time, judges. They were judged on design and the content of the literary elements (plot, setting, characters, genre, etc).

The following boards were Commended. Well done everyone.

A shout out to Anton who completed his board solo as his friend had to relocate early in the year. Well done on your tenacity.

Star Wars Jedi Academy - Anton (and Matt originally)

Wonder - Nikola, Sophie H & Esme

The Pet War - Mikayla, Brenna & Rosie

The BFG - Phoenix & Riley

The Island of Lost Horses - Emily & Issey

Captain Underpants - Josh & Brwyn

Danny the Champion of the World - Kalo, Henry G & Henry L

I will post pics of the book character dress up soon.

Making our Reading Fair boards at book club

The book club have been working creatively on their Reading Fair boards and they are all nearly finished. Watch this space ... I will be announcing the date that we will display these boards soon ...

The winning book trailer of 2016 is...

The Maze Runner - by Phoenix, Kalo, Henry L, Henry G and Riley

Congratulations! This trailer was a unanimous winner, winning both the online votes and the school votes. What I like about this trailer is the action scenes, the editing of pictures to create maze effects, the thoughtful captions which lead one through the story and lend it a sense of coherence and flow, and the careful choice of theme music which adds to the mood. The boys worked well as a team, using their energy to film some exciting action clips on the field, and Phoenix used his video editing prowess to enhance some of the pictures. 


It was encouraging to see that all of the book trailers received a number of votes. Thank-you to the children who visited at lunch times and placed your votes, and the parents, friends and whanau who supported their children by voting online. 

Some feedback for the other wonderful book trailers: I was impressed with the creative use of props (like the wooden train representing the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter trailer) and the small toy car photographed to appear as if there was a full sized car on the field in Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House. That tricked a few children who wanted to know how we got a car onto the field. The Gangsta Granny girls carried bags of recycling pretending it was loot, and the 100 Ride Bus Ticket team used Pic-collage to edit trolleys, tickets, buses and eggs into their pictures. The Little Shop of Hamsters girls edited in a picture of a hamster biting a child in a pet shop. Eek! In Diary of a Wimpy Kid I enjoy the before and after pics of how our family should be, and "what we got", as well as the hilarious wig dress up scenes.

I hope that you all had fun, book club. 

Next term we will finish our boards and hold a Reading Fair to display them (like a Science Fair but all about books) and then hopefully we will have a few weeks where we can just meet and chat about books.

The Book Trailer of 2016 competition is now open

Every year the book club creates book trailers and then we all vote for our book trailer of the year. The book trailers are visible on the new school library website, which parents and children can now access via the school website. They can also be looked at by clicking on May on the right-hand side of this blog, which is when the trailers were posted on this blog. After viewing the trailers, if you would like to vote, please select one trailer and post your vote on the poll on the top right-hand corner of this blog.

Children will be able to view the trailers and vote at lunchtimes in the library. I will restrict viewing to the middle and senior school, as a couple of the children have made horror genre trailers which may be a little spooky for younger viewers.

Voting closes on Tues 20th September so that I can announce the winner before the end of the term. Good luck everyone, you've worked hard and you're all very creative.

Making the most of the lovely weather

We had a happy, busy book club session at morning tea, painting the base colours on our Reading Fair boards. Next week we are going to start adding detail and 3D elements out of recycling. I'm thankful for sunshine and can you see the lovely, pink spring blossoms in the background of the first picture? I bet our local Tui will be seen there soon.

Book club fun in the sun

It was too nice a day to do our painting indoors. Book club painted some colour on their reading fair boards today. I'm looking forward to seeing how these boards are going to turn out.

Storylines Festival

A heads up... if you can make it, this sounds like an awesome day!

Storylines Festival

Family Day

10am to 3pm Aotea Centre

Watch the performance of a favourite NZ story.

Speed Date international and local guests.

Test your knowledge and be part of the Kids Lit Quiz for kids and adults.

Star in your own comic strip.

Join Joy Cowley's Birthday Celebration.

Be spellbound with Magical Stories.

FREE ENTRY FOR ALL

For more information, go to www.storylines.org.nz

Scholastic Country Kiwi Book Fair

Our inquiry this term is all about bees, which I imagine would be buzzing around at a Kiwi Country Book Fair

Thank-you so much to the parents and children who supported the book fair. It is a wonderful chance to encourage excitement about reading while supporting an important annual book fundraiser at the same time. We get to keep a percentage of books, depending on how many we sell. This year we chose three boxes of books to the value of over $2000 for the library. There are picture books, graphic novels, chapter books and non-fiction and I will catalogue and cover them in due course.

Thank-you to Jenny and Raewyn and to the following parents and children for your help: Marlei, Julie, Sarah, Emily, Olivia, Alex, Megan and Dylan. I couldn't have run such a busy fair without your help - it is so very much appreciated!

Geronimo Stilton visited, and enjoyed posing for pictures with some of our lovely children.

We are awaiting a few boxes of books to arrive, but if you haven't received a book by the end of this week, please do come and speak to me, or drop me an email.

Kate