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Book Week 2011 activities
This is a collated list of posts to OZTL-Net regarding useful websites and activities for celebrating Book Week in school libraries. Thanks to everyone who contributed and best wishes to all for a great Book Week 2011.
Websites
1 Info re the Book Week shortlisted titles has now been uploaded to ‘Mrs
Mac’s’ site.
http://www.mrsmacslibrary.com/book-week-2011.html
More will be added as it becomes available. If you have an idea to share
(acknowledged) on the site, please let me know.
From – Sharon McGuinness TL, Thirroul PS
2 http://campusrc.edublogs.org/
From – Jo Schenkel Teacher in the library Pilgrim School Aberfoyle Park Primary School Campus, SA,
3 http://delightfulchildrensbooks.com/read-around-the-world/
From Michelle Walsh Camberwell Grammar
4 The Global Education website has some great teaching resources that you might find useful for Book Week or otherwise:
http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/browse/0,21299,22739
From – Brenda Carter, Acting Resource Centre Manager Catholic Education Services 130 Lake Street
PO Box 5296, Cairns Q 4870
5 A last minute glog with a few resources to support One World Many Stories.
http://janning.edu.glogster.com/one-world-many-stories/
It is CC licenced so feel free to share. If you have, or know of content you would like to see added let me know.
From - Jean Anning, Ex Teacher librarian
6 Exciting news! The Book Week 2011 rap is now live at:
http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/
Lots of great teaching activities and resources are available. Join us on a fabulous online adventure, commencing next Monday! Make sure you share your ideas and successes on the teacher area of the blog. The rap is open to all schools, NSW, interstate, overseas, DEC, non government, whatever! Happy rapping and blogging! Ian McLean & Jenny Scheffers (Rap coordinators)
From – Ian McLean, Teacher-Librarian, Penrith PS, NSW
Ideas and suggestions
1 Lyndy Cracknell (St Catherine’s Junior School, Waverley, NSW) sent this link to
a couple of her mates … http://www.yesmag.bc.ca/projects/geodesic.html
the idea to make two and join them, and the Book Week theme, One World Many Stories.
So my brain started and this is what I came up with …
Make it a class challenge to construct one as part of the science and maths
curricula. Or get the older classes to help the youngers. Or individual
challenges using straws.
Or cover the finished dome with blue tissue/cellophane paper and as part of the
geography curriculum have them paste on green continents and white polar areas.
Read Around the World. Mark a route around the world. Calculate the kilometres
and create a scale. Assign a kilometre value per book and a class/classes to a
continent. Kinders get the smallest continent or distance; 5/6 the largest.
Classes/individuals read books (fiction or non fiction) from the continent, or
set in it, and map their part of the journey colouring in the route as they
cover the kilometres. Challenge is to read around the world before the end of
book week.
Identify/ graph the origins of the students in your school. Mark on a map.
Locate stories from each country. Have students from each country prepare a
poster about that country to be displayed on their national day.
Ask for people to lend dolls in national costumes for a display.
Have parents/grandparents come in to tell traditional tales from their native
country to all students.
Have guests who are fluent in the children’s languages come in and tell stories/
speak to them in their own language.
Use Jennifer’s Language Page http://users.elite.net/runner/jennifers/
to find out how to say common phrases in hundreds of languages.
Use http://flags2000.com.au/world.htm
or https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/flagsoftheworld.html
for kids to get flags and country information. They could draw their own.
Investigate, compare and contrast the different versions of Cinderella from
around the world.
Investigate the importance of oral storytelling traditions to the sustainability
of a culture.
Investigate the ways stories can be told without using the spoken word – how do
those who are deaf or blind enjoy stories? Can you make a story with just
music, dance or pictures? (If you haven’t seen Swan Lake from the Chinese State Circus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sMc-p19FIk
then it’s a must)
Perhaps enough for now but it is a great theme and so easy. And Sharon
McGuinness can add them to her one stop shop at
http://www.mrsmacslibrary.com/book-week-2011.html
From – Barbara Braxton, Teacher Librarian COOMA NSW 2630
2 I’ve added Barbara’s ideas to Mrs Mac’s, and wanted to alert you to a book
blog by two 12 yr old twins….on it they wrote a review of Toppling written
in free verse. Very clever! I thought it might also be an idea for our
students…..the twins have allowed me to link to their blog, so have a
read!
http://smallpuddles.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/toppling-by-sally-murphy/
From – Sharon McGuinness, TL, Thirroul PS
3 “Scan” journal (NSW DEC) has published several articles over the years where groups of students have worked with TLs to write book reviews during a unit of work.
Firstly, gather outcomes from your English syllabus and plan that your review writing will answer those outcomes. Treat the project as you would other types of written text. Gather up some real-world examples of book reviews: from newspapers, children’s magazines, trade catalogues, “Scan”.
*Deconstruct* these reviews with the students. Get them to consider intended audience of both the reviews and the books being reviewed, and to note layout, tone of the writing, etc. Do the reviews give a star rating, or similar system? Do book reviews give away the ending of a fiction story? Are reviews more than just a blurb? What percentage of a review is factual information about the creators, and what percentage is the reviewers personal response to the written text and/or illustrations? Does the review suggest ways to use the books with children?
As a result of these deconstructions, brainstorm a pro forma that addresses the criteria the students decided would be needed. The pro forma can be printed out and would scaffold students as they wrote their book reviews. Will the students get opportunities to draft, edit, type up, peer review, submit to a chief editor, publish? Etc.
From – Ian McLean Teacher-Librarian, Penrith PS, NSW
4 1. Some people are having trouble opening the units, this is because they are made in NOTEBOOK software and you need that to access them. It comes free when you purchase a SMARTBoard. A trial can be downloaded for 30 days at
but I don’t know if you can purchase Notebook software without having a SMARTBoard.
2. One person thought the link was broken as part failed to stay with the main URL, so this is it again:
https://sites.google.com/site/ourladyoflourdeslibrarysite/Home/book-week-2011
From – Stacey Graham, Teacher Librarian, Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, Tarro, NSW
St. Patrick’s, Lochinvar, NSW
5 free printables that may be useful:
http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/topic/places/countries/
From Michelle Walsh
6 Last year we had a reading incentive scheme going on “Around the world in 80
books” where we had a list and display of books (one for primary and one for
secondary) that were set in different countries around the world, the
students had a passport where they filled out the title and the country they
visited and had the passport stamped after reading 5 books. Our book list
grew as students went out of their way to find more books set in different
countries which we tagged in the opac for next time.
The primary students really enjoyed it, and we had a few who did actually
read 80 books in 15 weeks.
The secondary were interested and read as many as they could – obviously the
length of the books was longer.
We used it to promote international mindedness in the school.
From -Dianne McKenzie, Discovery College Hong Kong
7 Hi, Last year I remember someone posted some great ideas about activities to do for book week. One that I specifically remember was using Picassohead to draw Schumann the Shoeman.. Does anyone recall who created them or if they posted any this year. I am trying to create a list for some of the students to choose from:
1. Draw the girl from The Deep End in Notebook Software. Find a CC picture of an underwater scene. Import it into notebook software and put the girl in it. Make sure you include the URL of the picture.
2. Use ToonDoo to create a 2 scene comic about Maudie and Bear.
3. use Notebook Software to create a sorting activity on one of the books.
I have more but no time… Just looking for input and I will share mine when I get back.
From – Stacey, TL Our Lady of Lourdes, Tarro St. Patrick’s Lochinvar
THE CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA AWARDS
The Children’s Book Council of Australia has pleasure in announcing
THE 2011 SHORT LIST
Book of the Year: Older Readers
These books are for mature readers.
Crowley, Cath Graffiti Moon Pan Macmillan Australia
Hartnett, Sonya The Midnight Zoo Viking Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Horniman, Joanne About a Girl Allen & Unwin
MacLeod, Doug The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher Penguin Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Marchetta, Melina The Piper’s Son Penguin Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Wood, Fiona Six Impossible Things Pan Macmillan Australia
Book of the Year: Younger Readers
Intended for independent younger readers.
Bauer, Michael Gerard Just a Dog Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia
Bongers, Christine Henry Hoey Hobson Woolshed Press, Random House Australia
Branford, Anna Ill. Sarah Davis Violet Mackerel’s Brilliant Plot Walker Books Australia
Carmody, Isobelle The Red Wind Viking Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
McKinlay, Meg Ill. Leila Rudge Duck for a Day Walker Books Australia
Murphy, Sally Ill. Rhian Nest James Toppling Walker Books Australia
Book of the Year: Early Childhood
Intended for children in the pre-reading to early reading stages.
Champion, Tom Niland & Niland, Kilmeny Ill. Deborah Niland The Tall Man and the Twelve Babies Allen & Unwin
Dubosarsky, Ursula Ill. Mitch Vane The Deep End Puffin Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Lester, Alison Noni the Pony Allen & Unwin
Niland, Deborah It’s Bedtime, William! Viking Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Norrington, Leonie Ill. Dee Huxley Look See, Look at Me! Allen & Unwin
Ormerod, Jan Ill. Freya Blackwood Maudie and Bear Little Hare Books
Picture Book of the Year
Intended for an audience ranging from birth to 18 years. (Some books may be for mature readers)
Baker, Jeannie Mirror Walker Books
Bancroft, Bronwyn Why I Love Australia Little Hare Books
Greenberg, Nikki Hamlet Allen & Unwin
Kane, Kim Ill. Lucia Masciullo Family Forest Hardie Grant Egmont
McKimmie, Chris Two Peas in a Pod Allen & Unwin
Riddle, Tohby My Uncle’s Donkey Viking Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
Eve Pownall Award for Information Books
Intended for an audience ranging from birth to 18 years. (Some books may be for mature readers)
Brasch, Nicolas Theme Parks, Playgrounds and Toys Macmillan Education Australia
Brooks, Ron Drawn from the Heart: A Memoir Allen & Unwin
Davidson, Leon Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front The Text Publishing Company
Dubosarsky, Ursula Illustrated by Tohby Riddle The Return of the Word Spy Viking, Penguin Group (Australia)
Lloyd, Alison Illustrated by Terry Denton Wicked Warriors & Evil Emperors: The True Story of the Fight for Ancient China Puffin Books, Penguin Group (Australia)
One Arm Point Remote Community School Our World: Bardi Jaawi: Life at Ardiyooloon Magabala Books
The Awards will be announced and presented on Friday 19 August 2011
CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK: August 20 – 26, 2011 THEME: One World, Many Stories
http://cbca.org.au
For further information please contact:
National President Julie Wells, mobile 0431 147418
The CBCA Awards Foundation Donor List
Proudly Funding Prizes for the Children’s Book of the Year Awards
Benefactors:
Scholastic Australia, Allen & Unwin, Laurie Copping OAM (in memoriam), Thyne Reid Trust No. 1
Major Donors:
Australia Post, Sandy Campbell, Era Publications, Five Mile Press, Libby Gleeson AM, Bob Graham, Hachette Children’s Books Australia,
Hardie Grant Egmont, HarperCollinsPublishers Australia, Ipswich District Teacher-Librarians’ Network, The James N Kirby Foundation,
Kinross-Wolaroi School, Koala Books, The Library Board of Queensland, Beryl Moncrieff Matthews (in memoriam), Jill Midolo (in memoriam),
Angela Namoi, The Northern Territory Government, Parents & Boys of Sydney Grammar Edgecliff Prep School, Penguin Books Australia,
Random House Australia, Marion E Robertson (in memoriam), Emily Rodda (Jennifer Rowe), Gillian Rubinstein, Maurice Saxby AM,
SA Dept of the Arts & Cultural Development, University of Queensland Press, Julie Vivas, Walker Books Australia,
Cassandra Weddell, Qld (in memoriam), Margaret Wild, Maisie Williams, Garah, NSW (in memoriam), Sue Williams
Donations to the CBCA Awards Foundation are tax deductible and can be sent to:
PO Box 172, Blackheath NSW 2785. Ph: 02 4787 8492 or 02 9630 2424
Book Week 2010
This event has come around rather quickly, so this is a little late for most of you no doubt.
BUT you may still find something here of use.
I have gathered together the postings for the TL community on OZTL-Net , thanks to all the contributors, and included some links to websites and using the CBCA shortlist table put links to each of the titles, including the publishers sites, some reviews, author sites and some activities so take the time to check these out.
Enjoy
ACROSS THE STORY BRIDGE - BOOK WEEK 2010
Websites
Children’s Book Council of Australia – http://cbca.org.au/bookweek.htm
The 2010 Shortlist – http://cbca.org.au/shortlist.htm
The 2010 Notables – http://cbca.org.au/Notables10.htm
CMIS Fiction in Focus – http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/bookweek/
Walker Books – suggestions of books related to the theme
http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/statics/dyn/1275263123145/Book-Week-Across-the-Story-Bridge-AuG-10.pdf
Ideas for Promoting the CBCA Shortlist titles
From – Stacey Graham, Teacher Librarian, Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, Tarro, NSW
Hello all, I’ve created some SMARTBoard units on the Early Childhood shortlist and I’ve posted them http://sites.google.com/site/ourladyoflourdeslibrarysite/Home/book-week-2010
Some are still in need of finetuning and I found myself short of activities for some but at least it’s a start.
If you use them and improve upon them, please let me know what you do to make them better.
I am obviously hoping that if you come up with ideas for any of the other books that your sharing will be reciprocal!!!
Thanks in advance and hope you find them useful.
Competitions
From – Anni Tokatlian Teacher-Librarian, Jasper Road Public School
I’ve just added a Smart notebook quiz for the Early Childhood category to my Book Week webpage. Use, adapt, add to it. Enjoy.
http://mrstandict.weebly.com/book-week-2010.html
Photos of Book Week displays
From – Stephanie Bush, Junior School Librarian Queenwood Junior School Mosman
I am attaching a link to photos of my library story bridge for all to enjoy as there has been great interest. The only recent ‘bridgework’ has been vertical rope cabling right to the ends of the bridge and I am awaiting the arrival of a troll + billy goats. Thanks for all your kind words of encouragement. Hope the photos help.
http://www.box.net/shared/7zjx4s0uqp
From - Judith Way – SLAV
You might like to look at these fabulous photos from Raeanne McLean from Eltham College of Education’s Junior School Library:
http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/picture-gallery/eltham-college-of-education-junior-school-book-week-2010/
From – Mandie Gardiner
Pictures of our story bridge are up on the Wiki.
http://smclibrarywiki.pbworks.com/Book-Week-2010
From – Raeanne McLean, Junior School Teacher Librarian ELTHAM College of Education
Well, with the help of our maintenance staff and library technician we have our bridge!
I don’t think photos can be sent via this forum, so I have sent a link to my blog that has a couple of photos.
http://juniorlibrary.globalstudent.org.au/book-week-2010/
Ideas for Book Week activities
From – Barbara Braxton
As you know, Children’s Book Week this year is August 21 -27 and National Science Week is 14-22 August so here’s an idea to combine both and perhaps win a substantial cash prize.
Because of this year’s theme for Book Week, many of you are focusing on bridges so why not enter the Australian National ’60 Second Science Video competition’ by having your students research then produce a 60 second video which explains a science experiment or concept about bridges. Some questions they could explore are…
Which structures provide the strongest bridges?
Why are particular designs chosen for particular bridges?
Which is the strongest bridge structure – truss cantilever suspension or arch?
What makes a structure of a bridge stable?
Which type of bridge structure would be most suitable for a 300m span across a deep gorge?
How do people in places like the Himalayas or Amazon construct bridges where there are no materials like wood or steel?
Identify somewhere in your town or state that needs a bridge and identify the best sort of structure to span it.
For older students, there is a whole lot of questions at
http://www.hsc.csu.edu.au/engineering_studies/civil_structures/1-1/civil_structures.html
I’m sure there are heaps more but it IS early on Friday morning!
To find out more about the Video competition go to
http://www.60secondscience.net/
Registrations are due SEPTEMBER 17 and videos have to be submitted by OCTOBER 15.
AND also from Barbara
Have been in contact with the organiser of the science video comp and he has sent me a link to a virtual bridge building site …
http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/download.htm
But I also found some other sites that might be worthwhile too …
Build a Virtual Toothpick Bridge
http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/bridge/virtual/virtualbridge.html
Building Bridges Lesson Plan
http://www.earthwalk.com/education/eclassroom/lessonplans/bridges.html
The Bridge Challenge
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/challenge/index.html
Bridge Building http://42explore.com/bridge.htm
Ecogamer
http://ecogamer.org/environmental-games/west-point-bridge-designer-construction-and-engineering-game/
And more from Barbara
I don’t know if this idea is too dry but someone might be able to tizz it up…
I have always had this image of children going across the story bridge and discovering something about stories, something in the way of climbing the Faraway Tree led the children to adventures. So I have this vision of the students creating a class wall display of them walking across a wooden bridge which has a number of paths on the other side that they could follow.
Each path would lead to learning about an essential element of a story.
Examples might be
1. We walked across the story bridge and we discovered … settings.
Jackie French once told my class that a reader needs to be able to smell, hear even taste the setting as well as seeing it. So identify some books, like the beginning of the first Harry Potter, that have great settings and examine the techniques the author has used to develop such a great visualisation. If you were a director of a film version of this story, what music, sound and lighting effects would you use to enhance this setting?
Have the students select a common place, such as the beach, and encourage them to bring it alive.
2. We walked across the story bridge and we discovered … characters. Jackie also told the kids that unless you care about the characters in a story and what happens to them, then you are unlikely to want to finish the book. So have them examine their favourite character to determine why it is a favourite. Questions they might consider include
* Are the characters credible?
* Can you picture them in your mind?
* Do they have a real personality?
* If they are human, do they make mistakes like real people?
* Can you form a bond with them?
* Do you care about what happens to them in the end?
* Are the relationships between them realistic?
* Are the things they do in keeping with their personalities?
* Do you feel like you are part of the adventure?
* Is the dialogue realistic and natural and appropriate to the character?
* Can you hear them talking?
* Do you feel like an eavesdropper on their conversations?
* If they were real, would they be the sort of people you would like to have as friends? Why? Have them become the character answering question in a ‘hot seat’ scenario; describing their thoughts and feelings in a ‘freeze frame’ situation; tracking their relationships with the other characters through the story and so on.
3. We walked across the story bridge and we discovered … imagery. This is quite complex but a couple of suggestions would be to examine description by sharing descriptions such as Dahl’s description of the BFG or Tolkien’s hobbit. Have the students imagine they are submitting their illustration to be considered by the publisher for becoming the illustrator for the final publication. Another suggestion is to look at the figurative language and explore language structures such as metaphors and similes, or whatever it appropriate for the age group, Build a wall of suggestions from either the students or the stories they read.
4. We walked across the story bridge and we discovered … genre. Explore the different genres and have students read something they haven’t read before. What are the essential elements for each?
5. We walked across the story bridge and we discovered … authors. Have the students choose an author they have not read and create presentations that focus on advertising the author and their stories to their peers.
6. We walked across the story bridge and we discovered … ways of telling. Examine the different ways a story can be told – through poetry, plays, animations, games, movies, song and so forth. Use a simple story (I’ve used beginning readers from a reading scheme) and have the students choose a new way to tell the same story.
I’m sure these will spark something in your imagination so that you can develop them further.
Another from Barbara
Jo Schenkel from South Australia told me she was going to have the bridge from Monet’s garden in her library and that sparked a few more ideas particularly from the perspective of getting kids to connect with story writing through bridges. This is what I wrote to her that I think others might like to consider too .
Why not screen an image of the bridge and the garden – there are hundreds available on Flickr cos I searched through them all to interpret into a quilt for a sick friend last year and have the kids use it as a background to their own story. In some photos there are actually a couple of abandoned old dinghies
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45487102@N04/4205296891/
that just scream out for speculation about who was in them or where you might drift if you popped in. So they are going across the bridge and into a story…
And of course there is always the fun in stirring the imagination about why this is one of the most photographed bridges in the world. Or you could use any bridge as a starting point for a story – If this bridge could tell a story, what would it be?
Or get photos of some of the world’s famous bridges like the Golden Gate and have them tell their story from the bridge’s perspective. That will stretch your top kids but also appeal for those who prefer writing non fiction.
Imagine how the bridge felt when it buckled and swayed in the earthquake.
Maybe your littlies could retell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff from the bridge’s perspective. What would it be like to have a troll take up residence?
Will share more ideas as they come to mind.
More from Barbara
I’m not in a school any more so my imagination can no longer go so wild, but I have been thinking about the concept of a bridge as a connection between two points, and therefore wondering about who, what and how stories connect.
It is so much more than the child connecting with their imagination.
Watching Oprah during the week where she interviewed Queen Rania of Jordan about her book The Sandwich Swap and how it connected cultures; thinking about how Three Cups of Tea connected me with Afghanistan; sharing a must-read title with my daughter makes our bond stronger; reading a particular author connects me with different perspectives; buying a book for a housebound friend helps her connect with the outside world; and I haven’t even started on how Miss 4-today and I connect through bedtime stories.
So maybe the students could make individual posters that have a self-portrait or photo in the centre, and from that paper arched like a bridge connects to a book and from that another arch connects to a person, an idea, a country, whatever to show that concept of connection.
Another ‘connecting’ idea might be to examine cultures whose traditions are passed on orally and how story-telling would be a common connector within and amongst all cultures. Opportunity for exploiting the curriculum and collaborative planning and teaching there.
Other students might like to investigate the global connections of stories – why do so many cultures have a version of Cinderella, for instance?
There is also the concept of the Book Awards themselves – how do the shortlists and the winners connect us with stories, authors and illustrators we might not otherwise have read?
How do the new innovations in technology connect us with stories – and take it beyond Kindle et al to online booksellers which offer us access we haven’t had; lists like this which share recommendations; the purpose of a review and the potential to reach so many more. How many people felt a connection with Jessica Watson as they read her story through her blog?
What about phenomena like Harry Potter and Twilight that have created global connections – even I know what Team Edward and Team Jacob mean, and Quidditch is acceptable in our Scrabble games now. What boundaries are broken because of the connections made?
There is also the concept used widely in the US, particularly, of one school-one read, and even one-community, one-read where everyone reads the same book. Schools report very positive bonding results from these activities.
I’m sure once you start thinking, your mind will be overwhelmed with ideas and how they could be put into practice.
From – Tricia Scott, Anglesea Library St Michael’s Collegiate School
CleverPatch is a commercial craft supply site that includes a bank of free craft ideas.
Craft and display ideas for this year’s Book Week theme Across the Story Bridge are available at: http://www.cleverpatch.com.au/page8216/Activities.aspx?categoryID=1117
There are many more ideas that may be useful in the library on a range of themes: Christmas, Library Lovers Day, Easter, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day
Go directly to the craft section at: http://www.cleverpatch.com.au/templates/Cleverpatch_rebuild_2comp.aspx?pageID=8216
Or via the homepage: http://www.cleverpatch.com.au/ on the left hand side is a link to the craft activities under the heading: Need an idea – over 300 free craft downloads.
From – Mandie Gardiner
I have completed a Bridge Challenge for Book Week today and placed it on my Library Wiki. Link here:
http://smclibrarywiki.pbworks.com/Bridge-Challenge
The idea of researching bridges is a bit dry to me and although I would prefer to use the idea of stories creating bridges, I have used the actual bridges themselves in this challenge for Years 4/5. My motivation was to try and incorporate some very boring atlas work into something a tad more interesting for them. This way, they continue reading and borrowing and their teachers get some basic research and mapping skills taught. If you can think of something to liven it up I am open to suggestions. Covers basic mapping, latitude/longitude, continents and countries and simple research as well as some spread sheeting.
Use it the way it is or adjust it for your own needs. It is there for the
sharing.
From – Max Duthie, Resource Manager Ballarat Christian College
We are running competitions (colouring and story-telling ) for Preps to Year 4, and we’ve been working through a bridge challenge as suggested a few weeks ago on this list. We plan to have a ‘dress-up parade’ on the Thursday of Book Week and will be asking children to come as one of the characters out of “The Wrong Book”. Should be interesting and fun
We have also put up an outline of a bridge in the Library on display boards (about 3 metres long by just under two metres high. Children are bringing in their ‘favourite story book’ and we are placing coloured photocopies of the front cover onto the outline using velcro tabs.
From – Jenny Watts, TL Extraordinaire Canowindra High School
Just completed this exercise with aYear 7 HSIE class, and it may be useful.
They learned how the Incas built bridges with grass and vines, so they decided to test the story by making bridges that could hold weight and not sink when a bucket of pencilcases was attached. Boys against girls, they constructed bridges out of newspaper. The girls’ bridge was much thicker than the boys as they plaited, then re-plaited the paper.
Both bridges took the weight of the bucket, but the girls’ bridge held out the longest.
I can send a photo of the victorious team with their bridge, but didn’t get the camera in time for an action shot.
From – Stephanie Bush, Queenwood Junior School
On the topic of story bridges:
My husband designed and built a 5m long suspension styled story bridge at the entry to the library.
It is approx. 2 metres high and is approached via a sloping ramp of thick plywood. The bridge surface is 60cm wide black rubber from Clarks over the plywood. This takes the girls onto 2 metres of flat bridge with an exit ramp at the other end. There are rope ‘cables’ equally spaced to give it the suspension look. It is a focal point and has hundreds of crossings daily. We have just introduced plastic money tolls at either end and the girls now automatically duck down, pick up some money, walk across the bridge and deposit in a container at the other end, reversing the process going back.
It is all timber, costing about $270 from a local timber yard. We brought the pieces pre-cut in a car boot and assembled all but the cables in about 3 hours. I have large red sparkly letters with “once upon a time” affixed to uprights at one end and “they lived happily ever after” at the other.
It’s ‘height’ off the ground is a mere 10 – 15cm or so but the girls consider it a proper bridge. It has Australian flags atop the suspension uprights and a sign saying “Across the story bridge” in full view. It was truly a labour of love but not impossible. It is extremely durable and safe for a whole class to stand on at once, and they do! There are options for entry into the library but these are seldom taken. I will post photos if there is sufficient interest.
From – Victoria Poulos, All Saints Grammar
I have asked students to bring in cereal boxes which we will paint and tranform into books; these will form our ‘Story Bridge.’ I am aiming at having every child in the school to have a ‘book’ in the bridge. Cross fingers I hope my plan works!
Good luck!
From – Mandie Gardiner
I think this is a great idea. I might look at creating new front covers for the shortlisted and past years titles on the computer during my ICT classes and then printing these to glue onto the cereal box. Thank you Victoria.
From – Jo Schenkel, Teacher in the library Pilgrim School Aberfoyle Park Primary School Campus
I am only in a primary campus but I have very successfully used the idea of another SA TL friend of mine (I’ve used it twice now) which I think would work in secondary schools as well. She runs what she called a literary “Spicks and Specks”. On the campus, I had a staff team with 3 members….1 from each of our 3 schools…and 6 children, a year 6 and a year 7 from each school. The rest of the Upper primary kids and staff provided the audience.
Jenny was super organised and had buzzers for each team and phone a friend and ask the mob cards for each team….just to add a bit of fun. The rounds could contain whatever kind of questions you’d like! We’re done Charades, mix and match beginning and ends of book titles (similar to the song titles on the TV show), brief readings from various pieces of lit which the teams had to identify, because we are a primary school, we also had the IWB showing illustrations from different picture books and they had to identify the illustrator and book.
It’s really up to your imagination. One year, we found a crazy fact about the various authors and they had to pick the true fact from other equally as bizarre false clues.
Worth a try and lots of fun!
From – Dee White, Author
I love the idea of the Story Bridge and Literary ‘Spicks and Specks’ sounds like a whole lot of fun too.
One of the secondary schools I visit is holding a ‘Book Trailer’ competition for Book Week where the students get to make a book trailer of their favourite book.
I’m doing an author visit at the school prior to Book Week to give them some tips on how to make a Book Trailer.
They can be made quite simply using stills and music with Windows Media player, or even getting students to write a script which they can perform and film.
From – Anni Tokatlian, Teacher-Librarian Jasper Road Public School
I saw all the great bridges people had made and racked my brain about how to make one with minimal resources. One of our fabulously creative teachers came up with the solution. She folded thick brown paper a few times to make many ladder rungs then stapled these along two long pieces of green cloth. Voila! A bridge now tied to the beams of our library, suspended in midair on which I have stuck the letters that, looking upward, read ‘Across the story bridge’, and from which we can now hang favourite book covers and make large book characters to walk across.
Have to say, The wrong book is really up there as the favourite for most kids so far. What is the favourite at your school?
Materials
CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK 2010
Children’s Book Week will be held this year from 21–27 August. The theme for this year is ‘across the story bridge’. The Ipswich District Teacher-Librarian Network is producing a book of ideas and activities based on the theme and books shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.
The book contains blackline masters and lists of activities and ideas including display ideas suitable for libraries and classrooms to help celebrate Book Week. It can be used as a source of ideas to support literacy outcomes in future years.
Books available near the end of June. Order now to ensure you receive your copy.
How to order:
Mail an order form to Book Week Publication,
Ipswich East State School, Jacaranda Street, East Ipswich, Qld. 4305
or fax your order to 07 3432 6340
ABN 53 577 033 409
Block letters please
School/Institution _________________________________________________________________
Attention of ______________________________________________________________________
Address ________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________ State _______________ Postcode ___________
Phone ( ) ______________________ Fax ( ) ________________________
Order number ____________________ Date order placed __________________
Please supply _______ copies of across the story bridge @ $28.00 per copy. (includes GST)
ORDER FORM
All costs include postage and handling.
http://www.learningplace.com.au/sc/ipswich/idtln
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ASLA – Tasmania is holding visits to southern Tasmanian school libraries happy to show off their new libraries.
Visit Number 3:
Claremont Senior Secondary College – Thusday 14th October 2010
Claremont College opened in 1990 as a senior secondary Government school for students in Years 11 and 12. It provides a full range of courses, preparing students for university, TAFE, traineeships and employment. Its 900 students study either on-campus or off-campus
To see the photos of the newly refurbished Claremont College Library please go to
http://librarytidbits.weebly.com/claremont-college.html
Visit Number 2:
Kingston Primary School – Thursday 26th August 2010
Kingston Primary School is located in Kingston, which is about 10 kilometres south of Hobart, Tasmania. Kingston (pop ~13 000) is the largest town in the Kingborough Municipality, located south of Hobart. Kingston is the main town of the Kingborough region and is the largest population centre south of Hobart.
Kingston Primary School has grown over the years, from the original 37 students in 1860, to over 500 in 1999. The first school in Kingston was in the teachers’ (Mr and Mrs Russell) house, in 1833, as there was no school building for the children. In 1860, the Brown’s River School opened. Over the next decade a new school was built and in 1885 the school on the Hutchins Street site was opened.
In the 1970s the school outgrew its Hutchins Street property and moved into a new complex which is the site of the present school. The library we visited is a refurbishment of this 1970′s complex.
This is Helen’s report of the visit:
A small but hardy group of library workers braved Book Week and End of Term-itis and visited Kingston Primary School – Veronica and Leonie Hunt hosted the meeting. Huge thank you to them!
Hints from Leonie:
You don’t have to get library furniture from library suppliers!
She made her own returns box by using a box from Howards Storage World and putting those wheelie things for moving potplants on the bottom.
Picture book signs were made with a pack from Scholastic Book Club (I took a photo of the pack) and she just slotted them into acrylic display holders.
Shelf signs were the Syba ones, backed onto magnetic strips.
We loved
—- well, all of it really!
· Ailsa was particularly attracted to the self-opening doors. Gone are the acrobatic antics of kicking it open with your foot then shoving your hip against it to hold it open and wiggle through…. If only I had a Flip Camera to record her demonstration! Hilarious!!
· the simply huge clock – its on the shopping list for Bowen Road Primary, I think
· “Normal” drawers which are as deep as the front of the drawer. (I was told recently that those very shallow drawers are “standard” and I can’t have “normal” ones)
· that Leonie had 4 classes in the library all at the same time that day and still had everything lovely and tidy (even the workroom)
Follow the link to view photos of Kingston Primary Library
Visit Number one:
Bowen Rd Primary School Wednesday 21st July 2010.
This school was first opened in 1929 so many of its buildings are original, the library is one of a number of new buildings. The school at one time had a population of 600 but now it is just over 300. It has extensive grounds and community spaces and out of school use of facilities is encouraged.
Helen Mason, Library Technician of Bowen Road Primary School welcomed us to her new library. Principal, Terry Polglaise proudly spoke of how the library was a focal point to the entire school.
Although the deck is yet to be finished, Terry can see students using it for relaxing and reading, playing chess and other games. They’ve already bought some outdoor beanbags with this in mind.
The building which houses the library is destined to be used by the entire community with access to a kitchen and computer lab making the whole set up very attractive to different groups out of school hours.
About 20 people took the opportunity to wander through the library discussing everything from the depth of the drawers to housing the Big Book collection.
We look forward to our next “show and tell”.
Follow this link to photos of the visit – Bowen Road Library
Session presentations and follow up from
ASLAtas2010 – Moving Forward
ASLA Tasmania State Conference
For session information click on the session title
Friday
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Resource Description & Access – Carmel Denholm
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Excel: Introducing spreadsheets for library reporting – Julie Fielding
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Historical research and the picture book - Corinne Fenton
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Managing the transition from print to electronic resources – Chair: David Morris and Jill Abell
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Database Searching – Alan Mills
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Communication, collaboration & community: Web 2.0 @ library information services – Karen Bonanno
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School Libraries of the Future – Rick Susman
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Creating a Clever Clickview Community – Kim Nielsen-Creeley
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Dipping A Toe Into Web2.0 – Kate Reid
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The Print Renaissance: Hands-on guide to the best books available around the world that support student centered, enquiry based learning – Rick Susman
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E-books – General introduction and discussion on library services issues - Robyn McKenzie
Saturday
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National standards: Political goobledegook or fair-dinkum professionalism – Karen Bonanno
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Clickview: The Package: what are you doing, what are they doing? – Kim Nielsen-Creeley
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Advanced Book Repair and Product demonstration – Raeco representatives
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Moving forward: Merging practice and new technologies – Jennie Bales
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AV Equipment: The basics – Julie Fielding
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Practice around Australia – inspiration from across the continent – Karen Bonanno
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Web 2.0 tools for desktops and social bookmarking – Julie Fielding
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What’s common about Learning Commons? – A Research Study – Sue Chaplin, Sally Ludford and Fran Nogajski
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Cybersafety – Julie Fielding
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Standards of professional excellence for teacher librarians: How do you rate? – Karen Bonanno
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Developing expertise: Professional learning for non-teaching library staff – Chair: Helen Chapman and Ruth Rathbone
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Conference photos
Session presentations and follow up from ASLAtas2010 – Moving Forward
ASLA Tasmania State Conference
- Resource Description & Access – Carmel Denholm
Carmel’s PowerPoint
RDA
The Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC) site is the best link for information on Resource Description and Access http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/rda.html. ACOC provides a variety of resources with links to additional material, including information re subscribing to an email list for discussion of RDA as it relates to Australian libraries, including implementation and training matters.
The State Library of Tasmania will provide information for TALIS schools and lists such as aliaISLAND and taslib-link will provide information as it becomes available.
For a good introduction to FRBR see http://www.loc.gov/cds/FRBR.html and the link to Trove is http://trove.nla.gov.au/.
Carmel is happy to answer any specific queries.
Carmel Denholm
Senior Cataloguer (Metadata)│ State Library of Tasmania │ Community Knowledge Network | 91 Murray Street, Hobart, TAS 7000 | Tel 03 6233 7586 | Fax 6231 0927 | carmel.denholm@education.tas.gov.au
Session presentations and follow up from ASLAtas2010 – Moving Forward
ASLA Tasmania State Conference
- Excel: Introducing spreadsheets for library reporting – Julie Fielding
Click on the document title:
Excel
Excel Expenditure
Excel how to checklist
ExcelTimetable
Excel How to Make a Graph
The Excel notes are for 2003 and were written some time ago but I think they are still useful – we haven’t updated these because of the online availability of self-help videos etc.
I think Ashton Scholastic or some similar publisher are offering the 2003 (alligator books) ExcelWorks book for free – I briefly showed the book on Saturday as I left it in the car on Friday!
Session presentations and follow up from ASLAtas2010 – Moving Forward
ASLA Tasmania State Conference
- Historical research and the picture book - Corinne Fenton
Corinne’s recent publications have been picture books with a strong historical focus. Recently released, Flame Stands Waiting, follows the highly acclaimed The Dog on the Tuckerbox and Queenie: One Elephant’s Story. Publications over the last ten years include picture books and short novels for emerging readers.
Corinne’s website: www.corinnefenton.com
Corinne’s publisher: Blackdog Books – www.bdb.com.au
Session presentations and follow up from ASLAtas2010 – Moving Forward
ASLA Tasmania State Conference
- Managing the transition from print to electronic resources – Chair: David Morris, Jill Abell
Beyond the personalised tools of the iPad and Kindle, Jill discussed the school/college network infrastructure requirement for Libraries, that is a more universal eBook reader for classroom desktops, laptop, and notebook use such as the Adobe Reader Server alongside the ClickView Server. Jill demonstrated the EBSCO NetLibrary eBook platform with its 250,000+ eBooks and 15,000 Audiobooks from over 600 publishers on EBSCO site.
Session presentations and follow up from ASLAtas2010 – Moving Forward
ASLA Tasmania State Conference
- Database Searching – Alan Mills
For Alan’s PowerPoint click on the following link -
ASLA database searching tips
To contact Alan -
Alan Mills
Librarian
Reference and Online Services
Community Knowledge Network
91 Murray Street
Hobart TAS 7000
Australia
Phone: (03) 6233 7499
Fax: (03) 6233 7902
Session presentations and follow up from ASLAtas2010 – Moving Forward
ASLA Tasmania State Conference
- Communication, collaboration & community: Web 2.0 @ library information services – Karen Bonanno
Karen has been a secondary teacher, teacher librarian, head of department, regional adviser and state education officer in the public education sector. In 1994 Karen established an independent consultancy service and has continued to work with educational groups, organisations and professional associations. She is currently contracted as the Executive Officer for the Australian School Library Association and has held this position since 2002. She has published articles, books and book chapters and has presented at local, national and international conferences.
The hype of Web 2.0 can irritate or inspire. As information professionals we have a responsibility to discover and explore the opportunities for better delivery of school library services using new and emerging technologies. The presentation provides an overview of options available and how the technologies are currently being used in the school library environment.
This is the web link to Karen’s presentation -
http://www.kb.com.au/presentations/web2.0-and-school-libraries.htm
To contact Karen -
Karen Bonanno
Director
KB Enterprises (Aust) Pty Ltd
PO Box 290, Zillmere Queensland 4034
Australia
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