We had a fabulous Drop Everything Read day on Friday to celebrate Champions Read for Book Week as well as the National Year of Reading… There were lots of students wearing comfortable pyjamas ready to read and share their favourite books. There were also Reading Champions flashing their medals and trophies as well as Super [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Book Week'
Champions Read Challenge
August 23, 2012 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
As part of our Book Week celebrations we have had a Champions Read Challenge where students were encouraged to unleash their creativity. Many of our students have certainly done that and had lots of fun along the way! We have enjoyed watching a wide variety of student created videos based on Champions Read this [...]
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Champion Readers @ St Martin’s
August 19, 2012 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
We have lots of Champion Readers at our school…. Champion Readers… Enjoy reading Read for at least 10 minutes every day Read a variety of books Talk about books Share books with their friends Practise reading Use their reading strategies Ask questions when they read Look up words they don’t know Read fluently Why [...]
Drop Everything and Read Day
August 12, 2012 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
We are combining Book Week and The National Year of Reading with our Drop Everything And Read day. We will be celebrating the Book Week theme of “Champions Read” as well as the National Year of Reading - Reading Hour (which is officially on Saturday, August 25th). Come dressed up to have fun in any/all of these [...]
Book Week songs
August 8, 2012 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
Mrs Gittens is a very creative and talented Teacher Librarian at St Patrick’s primary school at Wallsend in New South Wales. Mrs Gittens is very clever at changing the lyrics to songs (and singing them) to encourage people to read! She has kindly shared her songs and we have have really enjoyed listening to and [...]
