Congratulations to 4 Blue who earned their second Gold Star last week, well done! Some other classes came close, let’s hope we can get some more this week! Just a reminder again about our Library days: 

THIS WEEK:

Thursday 13 May– Year 1

Friday 14 May– Year 4

NEXT WEEK:

Tuesday 18 May – Year 3 

Wednesday 19 May – Year 5

Thursday 20 May – Year 2

Please remind your children to bring their Library bags on the day of their lesson  – encourage them to have it in their bags the night before! The Library bags are essential for protecting the books as they are carried to and from school. Thank you.

This term in Library lessons we are looking at how we can use non-fiction texts and the internet to find the information we want. Each grade is studying different topics, related to their class units. Kinder students are learning that non-fiction books give us information, and we are learning about animals and where they live.

Premiers' Reading Challenge - We have a number of students who have already completed their PRC, and some students who have nearly finished, great effort!. Remember to register the books once you have read them, and the students are welcome to come to the Library at Lunch 2 to register the books they have completed. Check the lists at

https://products.schools.nsw.edu.au/prc/booklist/home.html

Many of the books on the lists which are in our Library are marked with the sticker to indicate which level – Red for K - Year 2, Green for Year 3 - Year 4, and Purple for Year 5 - Year 6. 

Scholastic Book Club - The current catalogue closes on Friday 14 May, so please have your orders in by then. Thank you.

National Simultaneous Storytime is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian Author and Illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. This year it will be  at 11:00 am on Wednesday 19 May. Many of the classes will share Give me some space written by Philip Bunting

Daily Reading - Don’t forget to try to take at least ten minutes out of your busy day to read with or to your children.

“I beg you all to read superb books aloud to your children! Begin on the day they are born. I am very serious about this: at least three stories and five nursery rhymes a day, if not more, and not only at bedtime, either!.”        

Mem Fox

Happy reading!

Mrs Susan Bryant - Teacher Librarian