The second annual Children’s Book Festival family fun day at the State Library this Sunday, March 25th is a great way to celebrate books and reading for the National Year of Reading with your family! There will be lots of activities with guest writers, illustrators, theatre groups, singers, clowns, workshops, interviews, book-making, storytelling, a petting [...]
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Children’s Book Festival 2012 @ the State Library
March 18, 2012 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
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The Premiers’ Reading Challenge – 2011
March 5, 2011 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
The Premiers’ Reading Challenge (PRC) has been launched for 2011 and you are invited to join thousands of other children in Victoria participating in the PRC. The PRC is not a competition, but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely…are YOU up for it?? Read more about the [...]
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Scare up a Good Book at your local library
December 5, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Just because our school LRC is closed it doesn’t mean you have to stop reading… Summer Reading Club – Scare up a Good book December 1st, 2010 - February 1, 2011 Sign up for the Summer Reading Club and collect a Reading Kit at your local Yarra Plenty Library. Help scare all the books off the [...]
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Books for the 21st Century by Grade 6
September 30, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
During Term 2 and part of Term 3, the Grade 6 students worked on designing 21st Century books. They used the BAR Thinking Key to modify and design their books. I wrote about it earlier here on our LRC Blog. Now you are welcome to view photos and listen to some of the students talk [...]
Design a book for the 21st Century reader
May 18, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Grade Six classes are working on their Design Briefs to “Design a 21st Century book for their reading enjoyment”. They are using the BAR thinking strategy to help them with their ideas. The students are also going to create their 21st Century books using their design briefs. Stay tuned … The students need to… B Make something [...]
