Aug

Book Week 2009 – BOOK SAFARI

Filed Under (Book Week, Book Week, Websites) by lorene on 18-08-2009

Book Week 2009 – Information and Activities

The following is a collection of websites, links documents and ideas for this year’s book week celebrations. Many postings come from OZTL-NET , thanks to those contributors. Please send me anything else you come across.

**NEW** This site has some great colouring in pages you can print out – lots on the Book Week theme as well as other stuff (like Harry Potter): from Judith Way

http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2009/08/19/supercoloring/

Book Safari……Book Week 2009 - From the eCentre for Teachers – Tasmania

http://www.ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/Searches/bookweek.aspx

http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/SearchPages/bookweek.aspx http://www.ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/Searches/bookweek.aspx

A collection of websites to promote Children’s Book Week 2009 – Sites included: The Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week page; their ideas page, book of the year awards page , the 2009 short list and notables pages; CMIS reviews of the older readers titles; The CBCA’s Junior Judges Project 2009 for students to select their winner and honour book choices; Book week quiz on OzProjects site

Book Safari……Book Week 2009 (http://cbca.org.au/bookweek.htm

**NEW** CBCA Promotional video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfhiYfA7u6w
Book Week ideas (http://cbca.org.au/bookweekIdeas.htm
2009 Short list (http://cbca.org.au/shortlist.htm
2009 notables list (http://cbca.org.au/notables.htm
Older readers reviews (http://amlib.eddept.wa.edu.au/webquery.dll?v20=MarcList&v24=626301
Junior judges project (http://www.juniorjudgesproject.com.au/default.aspx
Book Week Quiz (http://www.ozprojects.edu.au/mod/hotpot/view.php?id=566
Book of the year awards (http://cbca.org.au/awards.htm
Previous book week themes (http://cbca.org.au/themes.htm

The CBCA has instigated a Junior Judges Project that gives you an opportunity to register your class(es) online to participate in a voting scheme that allows children to indicate who they think should win.

http://juniorjudgesproject.com.au

The Book Week Passports are now online – thanks to Trisha Buckley from the CBCA and Padua College.

http://cbca.org.au/bookweekideas.htm scroll down to the bottom of the list.

Here is a list of Book Safari ideas that were brainstormed at the SA Christian Schools Library Conference. Book Week Brainstorm Book Safari with thanks to Charmaine Burton.

- Various sized tents – kids to sit in and read, even have a class sized tent
- Big cooking pot cellophane for fire
- Streamers from netting/ ceiling, add jungle animals to them
-   Dress up corner – hiking boots, safari suits, pith hats,
binoculars etc
-   Map with lots of books to read – Book trek
- Animal masks
- Dress Up parade (themed from Book Week books)
- Bookmarks in shape of jungle animals
- Search a word, colouring in competition
- Visitor from Monarto Zoo
- Pin the tail on the tiger
- CD – Jungle noises / music
- Lunchtime video – Madagascar / Lion King/ Jungle Book
- Library staff to dress up
- Camouflage – treasure hunt
- Jungle display
- Theme Day with costumes
- Book display in library + in café (+ other parents of school)
- Book wish list (time to purchase)
- Kids to Judge CBC books
- Different country safaris – each class do a different country + traditional tale from that country
- Name the paw prints or animal droppings! (The boys love this)
- Teach Dewey through a quiz involving Safari animals
- Craft – animal masks
           – colouring competition
           – face painting
- Endangered animal awareness
- Safari using the CBC books – guess what book the Safari comes from
- like
   quiz
- Jungle created – info. Diff. animal/plant each day
- Margaret in Europe doing a “Where’s Wally” while she is away
- Sally Heinrich’s Daintree Rainforest
- Safari through genre
- Premiers Reading Challenge Tree creating part of the jungle
- Animal masks / jungle masks
- Noah’s Ark
- Lunchtime activities – rotate students through
- Leopard skin bookmarks
- Food -lion faces on cakes /biscuits
- Origami animals – safari African animals, frogs, birds, butterflies etc
- Holiday pictures of staff students need to work out where they are or
   photoshop people into pictures
- Baby animals match with mother
- ZartArt – Victorian Art Supply company – Shortlist activity book.
   Age group /difficult etc
- Safari trial – with teachers, each class finds and solves clues in the library.
   Then places finished sheet in an entry box – on special visitors day one entry
    in chosen for that class to receive a free book.
- Collage Jungle pictures
- Fact sheets displayed
- Animal masks, paper plate animals
- Scripture – Daniel and the Lions
                  – Creation story
- Jungle terrarium, play dough + toys
- Book Hunt
- Students bring in toys
- Games – bingo, snakes and ladders
- Going on a Bear Hunt. Where the wild things are
- Dress ups
- Visit Monarto Zoo who have a special Book Week program
- Use Monarto book – photos of Zoo
- Vertically group classes have + older children read different shortlist books to group
- Publishers put out activity packs for shortlist books – Scholastic, Walkers,
   Pegi Welliams
- Dewey Safari
- Mach up shortlist titles with authors
- Jungle display, urban display using bird outline
- Using Leaves – competition matching teachers + info / favourite book
- Safari Puzzle book of activities
- Cardboard Safari landscape – children make animals
- Make cardboard binoculars, suitcases, African drums, photo frames with safari patterns
- Paw print book marks
- Savannah Diorama and African hut
- Lion paper bag puppets

From Jill Midolo – Check out our CMIS resources to support your Book Safari. Thanks to Jean Anning, we have the most wonderful Geraldine Giraffe book trolley that is being widely admired and will form the centrepiece for our Book Week display. She’s easy to make and you could do something similar. See Geraldine’s photo on our Book Week page:
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/fiction/bookweek/
Please scroll down the page below Geraldine to find our CMIS suggestions for your Book Safari.

This Video is very useful for Book Week or Literacy Week, both with students and teachers – from Judith Way:
http://bit.ly/78Nij

From Raeanne McLean – We hold a rotational book reading session involving the whole junior school on the Monday of book week to kick it off. It takes a bit of organising as we group the students across year levels. All the teachers are involved. I tell them about who won in which category etc. Then students get a passport with the shortlisted books inside that they tick and rate. It is all done in the theme so they are all making a hat to go on safari! After the reading we have a small activity for them to do such as an origami crocodile and making binoculars. We will ring a bell then the students will move to the next area to hear another book and do another activity. We will take the morning to do this.

From Rhyl Bignell -Teacher Librarian, Allenby Gardens Primary School -..thought I’d share some of my ideas and hope to see what others are doing. As we have had a term on Report Writing focussed on Australian Animals, we have decided to look at an African Safari theme.

Camouflage netting ($10.95 per metre) from camping store, draped from ceiling with animals – stuffed toys and student artwork, snakes, leaves, hanging down

Each class (19) will have a canvas (inexpensive one from Ned’s SA), to represent a letter or number of animals from BOOK SAFARI 2009, with some JP classes painting an African Safari scene.

Shoebox – cereal box dioramas that showcase an endangered animal in their native environment will be on display.

Book Week Parade will have an African theme, music, drumming, instead of costumes -Animal Masks and a report from several classes about the theme
- Conservation. I will be dressed up similar to Ms Frizzle now I am looking to buy a pith helmet!

Buddy Class afternoon, will focus on one of the shortlisted books and an African activity supported by the African parents – cooking, music, storytelling.

All of the JP classes are visiting Monarto Zoo during Book Week as well.

Here’s a great website = the African Wildlife Foundation – a great basis to start from.http://www.awf.org/section/wildlife/gallery

Here is a site that might be useful for Book Week ideas.

http://www.scissorcraft.com/masks.htm

This poster maker may be useful for Book Week: thanks to Judith Way

http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/2009/08/13/block-posters/

Units of work, based on three picture books by Colin Thompson – The Big Little Book of Happy Sadness, Sometimes Love is Under Your Foot and Unknown. The materials were developed this year as an extension to the Dogs Home’s Humane Beings program for schools (flyer attached for your interest). As Happy Sadness is short listed this year, the timing seems right to alert librarians and teachers to the availabilty of the Picture Book Pack – it’s free via email (doesn’t include the books obviously!). The units are values based and focus on connection and caring.

Available from: Anne Boxhall [aboxhall@bigpond.com]