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BOOK WEEK Week 3

May 13, 2014

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BOOK WEEK
Let's celebrate reading and books...

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Creating in the Library

Room 16 creating a window display/shade after studying the illustrations of Eric Carle. Look out for the display in the library windows........ Room 5 children draw their vision of their zoo after reading ZOO by Anthony Browne. They worked co-operatively to create this great mural. View it outside the library.

New Section in the Library.

Dyslexic Friendly Books Luca with the new books Luca from R8 recently discovered the magic of dyslexic friendly books when he issued one from WCL. He found that the books were easier and more fun to read because they were printed on yellow paper, the font was easier to read and the line spaces were bigger. Instead taking weeks to read a book, now he was getting through and enjoying a book in a weekend. This was the start of a whole new movement helped along by his keen teacher, Mrs Burson. She and Luca set up a stall at the art exhibition hoping to get parents to buy a few titles for the library. Sixty-seven books later.......a fantastic response from the community!! Now there will be a special section in the library for the dyslexic friendly books. Check it out. They include many well-known authors such as Anne Fine, Cornelia Funke, Michael Morpurgo, Quentin Blake and Malorie Blackman. How it all began! Adelyn and Lachie have written about the new dysl

Gecko Press authors and the Pipi Pizza truck visit the Library

Rooms 14 and 15 were lucky enough to have two authors, Jenny Bornholdt and Alexandra Tylee, visit and read their latest picture books to them. As an added bonus the Pipi Pizza truck arrived to feed the hungry classes after the visit. Julia from Gecko Press introduces the authors Alexandra reading her book, If I was a Banana Getting into the pizza dance Yum!

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BOOK WEEK Week 3

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