Do you have a favourite one?
(Watch it in full screen to read the writing!)
The Preps have been reading books by Margaret Wild this term in the LRC. They have really enjoyed “The Pocket Dogs’ and “The Pocket Dogs go on holiday”.
Biff and Buff are Pocket Dogs and they belong to Mr Pockets. They travel with Mr Pockets in the pockets of his coat until one day Biff’s pocket gets a hole in it and poor Biff falls out and lands on his head! Finally Mr Pockets and Buff find Biff and Mr Pockets sews up the hole in Biff’s pocket so he doesn’t fall out again.
The Preps in PC, PG and PJC were very creative and designed patterns for Mr Pockets’ coat pockets…
The Grade Fours are learning about how books are organised in the Non Fiction section using The Dewey Decimal System.
In 1847 an American librarian named Melville Dewey made up a way of classifying books called the ‘Dewey Decimal Classification System’. This system is now used in most libraries all over the world. It uses 10 categories of numbers, with decimal places to group similar things together. You can find out more about the 10 categories by reading Dewey and the Alien.
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Imagine what our Non Fiction section might look like without the Dewey Decimal System!
The Grade One and Two classes went on an excursion to the Melbourne Aquarium for their Inquiry topic this term called “Warriors of the Sea”. In the LRC we are finding out lots of things about sharks. This is what some of the students wrote about seeing the sharks at the aquarium.