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.

 http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/SearchPages/bookweek.aspxhttp://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

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.  

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]

So many ideas came from the conference, thanks for your suggestions.

I’ll try to address some of those things in the next few posts.

• Firstly session information from the conference

Kevin Hennah’s website

http://www.kevinhennah.com.au/Library.htm

Peter Gouldthorpe’s webpage

http://www.bdb.com.au/authors_illustrators/gouldthorpe_peter 

Tony Flowers webpage:

http://www.flowersink.com.au/

Jack Heath online:

http://www.jackheath.com.au/

John Heffernan’s website:

http://www.spudplus.com/

Carole Wilkinson’s website:

http://www.carolewilkinson.com.au/

Isobel Williams’ presentation – ASLA national and Information Literacy at Ogilvie High School:

asla-conference-aug-2008 

Ken Price’s session

Here is the link to his PowerPoint presentation to help you get started:

http://kenjprice.edublogs.org/

As you can see I have set up a blog which I will use to keep you informed about new websites, information and issues about school libraries  and curriculum materials of relevance to Tasmanian schools and colleges.

I welcome your comments. 

• Secondly some links you requested:

Links for Book Week:

 2008 Book of the Year award winners links [NEW]

 http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/6ad633e0-9c41-790a-61ed-78e0bc28ef60/1/THE+2008+BOOK+OF+THE+YEAR+AWARD+WINNERS.doc

 Fuel your mind…Book Week 2008 : 

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/6b3d4236-1d20-8e34-45b4-d279a42cee8b/1/ViewItem.jsp

 National Science Week 2008

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/434b1db4-240e-f032-c417-3a8bac720f21/1/ViewItem.jsp

Olympic Games resources

  Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: teaching materials

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/de484acc-a7b5-46fa-b196-3f4d9f21fc8a/1/ViewItem.jsp

Olympic Games: Beijing 2008

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/ede8d5b0-c61c-3f42-7db2-3c245cf7d82e/1/ViewItem.jsp

The Olympic Games and Music

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/8e486936-99d6-cdd1-22ec-8f9dff68c53f/1/The+Olympic+Games+and+Music.doc

Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games

http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/f744d04f-cc45-dff6-8df9-31eafad49531/1/ViewItem.jsp

• Thirdly, To see what other materials are available:

For DOE staff:

Information for teachers through the “eCentre for teachers”

http://ecentre.education.tas.gov.au/C8/Find/default.aspx

Information for students through the “Student Freeway”

http://www.student.education.tas.gov.au/C2/Find%20Information/default.aspx

For non DOE people:

Use the State Library of Tasmania’s “Stuff for Kids” searches in either the Cubby House or the Lounge to see information for students.

http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/kids