Congratulations to Kinder Gold for earning a Gold Star last week – well done! Sadly we still have quite a number of outstanding loans from the end of last term, but we look forward to getting them all back as soon as possible. Well done to all the students who have returned their books and remembered their Library bags.

Library tomorrow is Year 3.

 Next week:

Monday – Year 4

Tuesday – Year 6

Wednesday – Year 1

Thursday - Kinder

As we explore Poetry this term, we may ask the question, What is Poetry? It is many things to many different people, but Sally Murphy, an Australian Poet and Author, describes it as follows:

A Poem 

by Sally Murphy

 A poem

Is a whole lot of words

A plethora of words

A smattering, a scattering

A shattering of words

Thrown on a page

In carefully created

Chaos

To make you wonder

In this poem, you see poetic techniques – repetition, rhyme, alliteration – and the poem intends to leave the reader not with a definitive answer, but with something to ponder. That may be a depth of feeling, a sense of joy or even just a giggle!

 Scholastic Book Club

Catalogues for Issue 7 went home last week. Orders for Book Club On-Line will close this Friday 21  October.  There are some great books available at good prices. Thank you for your support.

Remember to encourage your children to read every day, even for just ten minutes, and if possible, read with them. That valuable time spent with them will be what they remember!

"The more that you read, 

the more things you will know.

The more that you learn,

the more places you'll go."

Dr Seuss

Happy reading!