Dare to Explore - coming to a library near you

Auckland Libraries Summer Reading Adventure

10 December 2012 - 25 January 2013

FREE for Auckland kids aged 5 - 13
It’s back! Sign up for Dare to Explore at your local library from Monday 10 December and get reading.
The Auckland Libraries Summer Reading Adventure runs throughout the whole summer holidays, and you can finish as many challenges as you want.
Take part in new Dare to Explore challenges and library activities, meet some new friends and come to the PARTY! Do activities at home, on holiday, at the library, on the internet and with friends.
Not a member of Auckland Libraries? It's easy to join - simply go online or speak to a librarian to sign up.

A gentle nudge

We have our annual library stock-take coming up, so please kindly return all your books by the end of this week. Many thanks.

Library displays

Who is looking forward to the Red Room being a library again in the near future? I am. We can have so much fun exploring the world of books and so much more. 

It would be wonderful to get you children involved in creating some wonderfully unique, creative displays ... Check out what these high school children in Melbourne have created ...

http://melbhslibrary.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/students-display-talent-and-creativity/

Celebrate Summer Reading!

Check out the events page for information on our school, Auckland Library and National Library summer reading programmes ... to help prevent the "summer slide" ...

Thanks for the names for our virtual cat. Please keep them coming (as comments) and when we have a few purrrdy good ones we will get a blog poll going so that you can vote for the purrrrfect name. Cheers.

Library-on-wheels

The Library-on-wheels has been visiting classrooms during their library times on a regular basis, rain or shine thanks to the dedicated library monitors. Thank-you to Selena and Room 1 for painting the trolley with such vibrant designs. Look out for the New Books box ... some fabulous books will be rolling your way!

Woodlands Park Hall of Fame 2012

Well I hope you all enjoyed the holidays. Did you climb a mountain (or a rock-climbing wall), play a musical instrument on stage (or in your bedroom), dance, write a novel (or your journal), make a movie (or film your little sister feeding ice-cream to the cat) ... invent something, build something, reach "the zone" in a sporting moment...? The point is, you are all creative, talented, bright, young stars and every child at Woodlands Park deserves to be in the school hall of fame. You are future teachers, leaders, inventors, healers, musicians, scientists ... 

Inspired by the book, New Zealand Hall of Fame (available in the school library), we initiated a school Hall of Fame and you (Woodlands Park children) nominated worthy nominees, while teachers also put names forward. The group of children chosen this year are all wonderfully talented and are a part of a broader pool of talent that lies withing in every child.

Selena and Room 1 created a colourful array of 'gilded' frames for the photos and put together this display in the hall, while presenting the awards in their class assembly. Well done Selena and well done to our 2012 Hall of Fame! 
Kate

Wanted: A feline name that's right up our alley.

Our lively library blog cat is hoping you'll find a name that is right up his/her alley. We're looking for the cat's whiskers, something that will tickle our kitty's fancy. Please leave your suggestions as comments below. They will come to our library email and we'll check them and then publish them. Once we've narrowed it down to a handful of names, we will post a poll on the blog, so that you can come online and vote! 

Purrrrrfect!