New Books here

Just to let you know that we have some new books available to be borrowed. 

One is called 'Tracy Tales' and is about the Darwin Business Community and how they survived the Great Cyclone. 

Also available for staff is a copy of 'Digital Photography Projects for the Classroom'.  This will be kept with the Teacher Resource materials in my office, if anyone is looking for it.

Following a request from a student, we now have the 'Maze Runner' trilogy here and ready for loan.  Apparently there is a fourth book in the series now as well so I will be looking for that as well. 

Also, just to let you know, the DVD of the 'Maze Runner' is also available for loan across at the Public Library along with loads of other titles, so it could be worth checking out what else they have to offer.  Drop in and say Hi to Kylie and Pam.

Clontarf and Cupcakes

I have just been lucky enough to receive a beautiful made-from-scratch cupcake, made by some of the Clontarf fellas and delivered with huge smiles, along with Happy Valentines day wishes. Looked good, tasted even better!

Thanks guys!  Awesome job.

World Read Aloud Day

http://www.readaloud.org/why.html

http://www.busylibrarian.com/2015/02/world-read-aloud-day-2015.html

World Read Aloud Day is Wednesday, March 4th, 2015. Last year over one million people in more than 80 countries celebrated this day of joy.

"World Read Aloud Day is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people. World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, especially those words that are shared from one person to another, and creates a community of readers advocating for every child’s right to a safe education and access to books and technology.
By raising our voices together on this day we show the world’s children that we support their future: that they have the right to read, to write, and to share their words to change the world."

Maybe 15-20 minutes spent reading aloud with your class is a good way of celebrating this day - whether you are reading, or you and your class are reading, it is all good.  Maybe we can have someone come in and read? To try and help get the students involved, we should all be modelling what we keep telling them to do - READ!

Any suggestions or ideas?  Maybe a brief entry on this blog about book choices, genres, etc. could get people interested? Share it with the students as well - this blog is for them as much as for the staff.

QR Codes with year 7s.

As some of you know, I have a fascination for QR codes, and using them for learning activities with students.  I think they could be used for most classes...well, I am still trying to apply them to Maths, but I am working on that one.

The last couple of weeks I have had 2 of the year 7 classes come in for a Library Orientation lesson, using QR codes to learn about each area of the Library and it seemed to go well.  At the end of the lesson, in most cases, they could show me all the various areas, and talk about the Library rules and why we have them. 
(I got a lovely thank you card from Mr. Lutwyche's class, which was awesome. Never had that before.) 

Congratulations to Flynn on winning the Swimming Carnival.  Well done!

Currently we have a display up in the Library with a Twitter theme - lots of birds and very short book reviews.  All the books to match are on the display shelf and ready for loan so come borrow a few, or more.  If anyone would like to get their class involved with writing short book reviews to be added to the display, that would be great. 

Also, if anyone would like to have class work displayed here in the Library, please come and see me - I would love it.  (Displays are not my forte, I must admit)

Library Display and Swimming Carnival

There is a display up in the Library with a selection of books to match, so come in, have a browse - maybe even borrow one, or a few. 
Many, many thanks to Carrie and Coralie for their help with this - you are both awesome!

Swimming carnival was the go for today - lots of red, green and blue happening everywhere. Wishing everyone good luck in being the winning team....though we all know it will be Stuart, of course.

Have a great weekend folks!