Happy World Read Aloud Day! It is the 5th of March in the USA, South America, etc, so we are still celebrating this special global initiative. As it was the 5th March in New Zealand yesterday, books were read aloud at our little school; here, there and everywhere. Room 9 took some delightful pics of children reading aloud ... Thanks for sharing!
In the library at lunchtime yesterday I read Precious Little aloud, surprisingly chosen by a junior. It is a sophisticated picture book with a deep message that those who do the mundane everyday work are indispensable - told through a visually awesome cosmic adventure:
What are your read-aloud suggestions?
Today is the day. 5th March is World Read Aloud Day.
Imagine a world where everyone can read...
World Read Aloud Day takes action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. In support of this awesome global initiative, I'll read a story aloud at lunch time today, and I will play a few online videos of authors reading aloud to play on the 'big screen' in the library, every day this week. That brings me to another reason to celebrate ... the amplifier in the library has been repaired - so from now on I will be able to play book trailers, authors reading aloud and have all sorts of interesting story time happenings at library lunchtimes.
Would you like to get involved? Go to http://litworld.org/worldreadaloudday for a multitude of ways that you can get behind this special day.
I know our teachers read aloud to their classes frequently, and to celebrate that I will ask them at morning tea to try to get videos or pics taken to show that they have supported this initiative.
Parents, you can get involved too. Read aloud - send me the pics or videos and I will possibly upload them to this blog.
My email:library@woodlandspark.school.nz
Children - it would be really cool if you could read a story to little siblings and get your mum or dad to send me the video.
If I get enough vids, I may even start a flipgrid. Check this one out:
http://flipgrid.com/#f4ad9b3e
Go to twitter and type in #wrad or #wrad14 to see how people are getting involved around the world.
This would also be a good week for us to share our favourite read aloud books. You can comment below, drop me an email or come and tell me your favourite read aloud book.
Well done to Jasper and Josefine who handed in their summer reading logs with long lists of books read over the summer. This is what they read:
Jasper aimed to read seven books and actually read eight. He is seven years old and his favourite types of books are "look and find games". He read: "Where is the Gold?" by Pamela Allen, "Look and find planes", Lego City "Fix that truck!" and "Look out below!". The Lego City series are very popular! Jasper also read "The scientist", "Happy haunting, Amelia Bedelia" and "Amelia Bedelia 4 mayor" by Herman Parish and "Pish and Posh" by Barbara Bottner".
Josefine is nine and a half and her favourite genre is the Rainbow Magic series. Josefine read the following books over the summer holiday: "The Walker book of magical stories" by Vivian French, "Bella the bunny fairy" and "Flora the fancy dress fairy" by Daisy Meadows, "Not quite a mermaid - mermaid wish" by Linda Chapman, "Over the Rainbow" by Meredith Badger, "The bully buster" by Sally Rippin, "Ellie and Granny Mac" by Elizabeth MacLennan.
Well done Jasper and Josefine! I would love to hear about some of the books you have read this holiday! Drop in and see me, send me an email: woodlandsparklibrary@gmail.com or comment below...
Well, let me first tell you that 113 people voted online and almost all of the children at Woodlands Park School voted (our roll is around 350). Different trailers were popular with the different syndicates with a few firm favourites across the school and community. The junior syndicate favoured Nancy Drew, Captain Underpants and Paddington Bear equally. The school votes were more spread out than the internet votes with each and every trailer getting a big pile of votes.
A massive congratulations go to each and every child for their creative book trailers. Give yourselves a big pat on the back. And now, here it is; the winning:
Woodlands Park Book Trailer of 2013:
Paddington Bear: Book Trailer by Vittoria and Jess
Runner up:
Brother Band: Book Trailer by Zac
Third place:
Nancy Drew: Book Trailer by Paloma
Well done!
Rest in Peace Tata Madiba and may your words continue to bring out the best in people.
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The library stocktake is ALMOST done and (shelves) dusted! Thank-you so much to Joanne, Alison, Louise, Angela and Shelley for giving up so much of your time and energy. It was super to get those 793.73 (Dewey decimal) books back into order :) You guys were amazing! We have scanned over 4000 books.
Now I just need to find a few books that we missed (tomorrow's job) and then we will successfully have got that job completed. Thanks, Selena - you have such endurance!
Once stocktake is well and truly out of the way we will look towards getting a summer reading programme on offer.
