Congratulations to all families making time to read in this current situation -  reading can take us to places we cannot go physically while we are in isolation at home! We can make a virtual escape to either somewhere real or make-believe, the choice is ours, depending on the book we are reading. It appears that there are many using Sora to access either Ebooks or audiobooks, and hopefully some of you are also using the International Children’s Digital Library , where you will find books from around the world, and in many different languages http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

The Children’s Book Council of Australia are helping out with access to good books at the moment by running a daily story time at 12noon.  Go to https://www.cbcansw.org.au/storytime to see the great authors they have each day reading a story for us all to enjoy. “An author a day keeps the boredom away”  - and each book enjoyed can be added to the Home Reading Log. If you need to print a sheet go to the PRC site https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/booklist/readingLog.html

Remember too to take a look at our Oliver Library Home page which has links to many interesting sites and activities. I look forward to seeing the completed activities in student home workbooks when we can return to school.  If you missed the sheet last week, here it is again – some fun activities to help students respond to the books they read. Don’t forget to keep a reading log of all the books you are reading, titles and authors, and we can register these later on for the Premiers' Reading Challenge.

Scholastic Book Club:  While we are not at school we can still access the Book Club catalogues, all online, no paper catalogues for the time being. Browse the catalogue, and if there is anything you would like to purchase you just go ahead and order through LOOP as we have been doing. https://issuu.com/scholastic_australia/docs/aus_issue_3?fr=sMTQ2ZTExOTgzNjE

The items you order will be delivered to school as usual, and will be distributed to the students on the days they are in attendance. The current catalogue closes on Monday 18 May, so just have your orders in by then. Thank you.

Daily Reading: Remember how important it is to read every day, please encourage your children to read for at least ten minutes a day. Reading along with them is even more invaluable! The wise man Confucius once said:

“No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for READING – or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”

Happy reading!

Mrs Sue Bryant

Teacher Librarian