George's Marvellous Medicine book trailer

Librarians of the term

Congratulations to our librarians of the term. The librarians all did an outstanding job in term one, so it was not easy to choose the librarians of the term, however the children pictured below went the extra mile and showed incredible dedication to both the fun jobs and the more mundane tasks. Well done to all of the term 1 librarians for a job well done. Many of you have said that you are keen to do another shift in term 3 or 4 - thank-you!

The term 2 librarian timetable will be put up on the library door today. 

Happy May - let's have a great term.

Nga Mihi

Kate

Lively lunchtimes in the library

Lunchtimes in the library are a blast!

Last week we had a little stormtrooper visit the library to request a pic with some of our other intergalactic characters... here he is with a bigger stormtrooper, and our very own R2D2 (who talks robot, but only on May the Fourth)...

I also had some very excited girls bring me their worm library diorama that they made using their own wonderful imaginations. It has an issue desk, tablets, books, tables, worm food, book worms, a light and even a little librarian. 

This year life as a library monitor is really diverse. Lunchtime library monitors are assigned to various stations (rotating weekly) - one or two will do the issuing and returning, one librarian is on Ipads, (they help children search for books on the library app and find them on the shelves), one monitor is on CD corner (they manage the queue of children wanting to listen to CD books, and handle the CD player), one is on Lego Club (Wednesdays and Thursdays) and one or two are on shelving and tidying, which sometimes involves putting up a feature-genre-of-the-term-shelf or helping with a display.

On Friday, we started a Create your own Fantastic Beast drawing and writing exercise. The library was buzzing. The children used their imaginations to create their own beasts, drawing ideas from J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and many other fantastic fictional creatures, and combining creatures from our incredible natural world. They drew incredible beasts and made up the creature's name, its habitat, diet, special powers, likes and dislikes, etc.

We will continue creating beasts until the end of term and then I will do a lucky draw for a winner to choose a book (from my special box).

Here are some pics of the fun we had. 

International Woman's Day and Woman's History Month

Wednesday 8th March was International Woman's Day. The library displayed books about suffragettes and history of New Zealand Women since they won the vote, as well as a Sophisticated Picture Book on Malala, and books on Frida, Rosa Parks, Anne Frank, Helen Keller, Marie Curie, Jean Batten, Amelia Earhart, Princess Dianna visiting New Zealand, girls in the Kapa Haka, Maori and NZ heroines and other fictional heroines.

We have such wonderful resources. Do encourage your girls and boys to read about some female and male heroes, both real and fictional. 

March is Woman's History Month. Why not challenge yourself to learn about at least one female who changed history.

Summer Reading Challenge winner

Congratulations to Ella who won the lucky draw for the Summer Reading Challenge prize. 

There were 15 names in the draw and Ella read 49 out of a total of 248 books read by the children who signed up this summer. She went away happy with her prize - a book of course!

Well done everyone and thank-you for taking part.

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!