Premiers' Reading Challenge

The online Honour Roll for this years Premiers' Reading Challenge is now ready to view at Honour Roll.


Congratulations to all our students who took part in the Challenge! A fabulous effort!

Happy Father's Day!

This week during Library sessons we read some books about 'Dads' to celebrate Father's Day. 

After reading we used a great app on the iPad called Chatter Pix to record what we liked about each story. It was lots of FUN!

Here are Joshua, Sophie and Liam talking about these great books!
My Dad by Anthony Browne
Some Dads .... by Nick Bland
Grandpa and Thomas by Pamela Allen



My Dad Anthony Browne from Learning Together on Vimeo.


Some Dads... Nick Bland from Learning Together on Vimeo.


Grandpa and Thomas Pamela Allen from Learning Together on Vimeo.

Book Week 2014!

We have had a wonderful week of celebrations for Book Week 2014. Thank you to our Library team who ran activities and assemblies.
We asked families to send a photo of how they connect to reading. The slideshow below shows the many different ways we connect to reading and how reading connects us to each other and the wider world. 

Book Week 2014 from marieck

How did you celebrate Book Week 2014?

What did you enjoy the most during book week?

Book Week - Connect to Reading!

Connect To Reading!

 

Book Week for 2014 begins on Saturday 16^th August until Friday 22^nd August. This year the theme is ‘Connect To Reading’. Each class will be running activities over the week to celebrate  Australian authors and great books.

 

We are having a dress up day on Wednesday 20^th August. We will begin the day with a parade in the hall that all parents are welcome to attend. Students are encouraged to dress up as a character they connect with in their reading.

 

As a school community we would like all families to think about how you, as a family, connect to reading or how reading connects you to each other - your community - the world. Some examples are: reading a recipe, a map, sign posts, menus, newspapers, text messages, blogging, etc. Take a photo and send it to: library@slblackburnsth.catholic.edu.au

We will make a slideshow of all our photos and post them on our school blogs.

 

On Tuesday 12^th August the students will attend a workshop run by Richard Galbraith, a writer, illustrator, cartoonist and storyteller. Richard will run workshops on cartooning where students will learn to create and draw cartoon characters and weave them into simple stories.

 

Throughout Book Week we will have our Library team reading books to the whole school at Lunchtime.

 

We are looking forward to an exciting

Book Week at St. Lukes!

 

 

Connect to Reading!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



News from Mrs Davey

We have great new books in the library!
For Preps and Juniors: Hairy Maclary's Hat Tricks by L. Dodd , Green eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and many other picture books. For these books look in New Books or Picture Books.
See if you can find the new books!                                               

We have two new Zac Power Spy Recruit titles, and two new Billie B. Brown Mysteries.                      
Find the new shelf with some Premiers' Reading Challenge books for Preps and Juniors. 

For Mids and Seniors: Two new Geronimo Stilton titles, two Cavemice titles, and two Thea Stilton titles.  Also two new Rainbow Magic titles, a new Truly Tan, a new Tashi, and a new Judy Moody. We have two new Tom Gates titles, and three new Dork Diaries.                                                    
Note - some new series to try: 
Crawf's Kick it to Nick by Shane Crawford about A.F.L. Footy
Sea Quest by A.Blade, and Skylanders.            
                                                                           
Andy Griffiths has a new book Once Upon a Slime to help you write your own stories.
Especially for Seniors:  a number of new Jacqueline Wilson titles. My favourite is a recent title Queenside, but try them all. Note that J. Wilson based her book Four children and It on E. Nesbit's Five children and It. This will be available shortly- find out more about the Psammead!
Check New Books and Fiction for these books.

Soccer fans try the facts books and fiction on display.
Congratulations to all students who are reading so well for the Premiers' Reading Challenge.          
Keep it up over the holidays. You have until the end of August to finish.
Let's see if all students can complete the Challenge!

Any questions, send a message to Mrs. Davey.

St. Luke's guest writer - Madeline

It is with great pleasure that I introduce our very first guest writer for our Library blog. Madeline in Senior MY has written a very informative piece about poet and writer Oodgeroo Noonuccal.  

See more of Madeline's work on her blog  Meet Me (M@del!ne)

Oodgeroo Noonucca

Oodgeroo was born in 1920 and she was born on Stradbroke Island, (the indigenous call it Minjerriba) Queensland. She was best known as a poet, although she was also an actress, a writer, a teacher, an artist and a campaigner for Aboriginal rights.She left school at the age of 13, and worked as a domestic servant until 1939. She volunteered for service in the Australian Women’s Army Service. 

Oodgeroo
achieved national prominence as the Queensland State Secretary of the
Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
(CAATSI). She also achieved another prominence through her highly popular
poetry and writing. Oodgeroo became the first published Aboriginal woman
with her verses ‘We are going’ which sold out in three days.


Oodgeroo also wrote a lot of books for children – Father Sky and Mother
Earth (1981), Little Fella (1986), and The Rainbow Serpent (1988) with the
help of her son – Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Vivian). She was included in
‘Aboriginal rights’ organisations.

Oodgeroo was very young when she started poetry and in her late forties a
writer encouraged her to publish them. She kept writing and became
recognised all over the world. 

In the 1960s, Oodgeroo campaigned for Aboriginal rights. Until then
Aboriginal Australians didn’t have the right to vote. Oodgeroo did
everything she could to create gender equality. She travelled across
Australia, giving as many as ten talks a day. The campaigning paid off
after fighting so hard. In 1967 the indigenous finally had the right to
vote.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal continued to fight for her rights. She travelled the
world, telling others about the dreadful conditions for the Torres Strait
Islanders. But she didn’t believe that people were listening to her. In her
frustration, she decided that she would go back to her favourite place –
Moongalba, (the Noonuccals call it this) which means ‘sitting down place.
It’s very sacred to them. But the Government said that they owned
Moongalba and Oodgeroo wasn’t allowed to build anything there. She wanted
to turn it into an Aboriginal museum.

She decided the only way that she could stay on her land, was to
camp there. Oodgeroo invited children, both black and white, and shared her
land with them and showed them the aboriginal ways. 

 When Oodgeroo Noonuccal died, lots of people were upset, but that’s not
what she wanted. Oodgeroo wanted people to celebrate her achievements and
to continue working for a better future for the indigenous. Oodgeroo’s was
a role model for all Australians. Someone who strived for true respect and
understanding between both the white and black communities.

Thank you Madeline for a beautifully written and thoughtful Author study. Oodgeroo Noonuccal was a very talented and amazing woman.  

Sharing Our Love of Reading!

Last term the Middle students were involved in a project to help answer their rich question - How does belonging to a community contribute to our well being? They visited our local Kindergarten and read to the preschoolers. 
How wonderful that our students were able to read and share stories with their Kinder friends and discover how to give to others in our community in a fun and engaging way. 

Below are some of the reflections that came to the Library blog - thank you to all the Middle students who sent a comment to the blog!

You can read further reflections from the Middles here, here and here.

Hello,
I also had fun reading to the kinder kids. The kinder kids were so friendly and good at listening. I read 'There's a Hippopotamus On My Roof Eating Cake' and lots of others. Then I did some drawing and ate my brain food with them. I had lots of fun.
Bridie.
Middle V

I liked sharing our favourite books with Indra Kindergarten. 

Hello Bloggers!
I really liked reading to younger kids and it felt really nice.
Bye Bloggers!
From Piers.

My visit to Indra Preschool was really fun and when I chose my book I thought it was a good book for Preschool kids. Reading was so much fun and they looked really interested. I felt really nervous at the start but when I started reading I felt better.
From Zac.
Middle C 

Hi St. Luke's Library. A couple of weeks ago the middles went to Indra preschool to read to the children it was a good experience reading to the children. The children seemed very interested. 
From James.

Hi,
I loved reading books to the kinder kids. It was awesome how they spot things out in the books. I met lots of new friends. After we read to them we got to play with them outside. Jack and I were pushing lots of kids on the swing I felt like I was back in kinder. I read 'Wilfred Gordon MacDonald Partridge' and Rules of Summer'. I had so much fun
From Cooper T. 
Middle S 

Hello,
I would like to share what book the kids wanted me to read to them at Indra and what else I did...
1st I met my cousin called Sam.
2nd I had to read fish,life size animals and numbers and community.
3rd I met nick.
I miss Indra and the nice kids .
From Angus.
Middle C

Hi,
I loved sharing books with the little Indra kiddies. The way I read to them was ...
1.Ii spread out from my friends
2 I chose a book
3 Kids came to me.
I got to learn some words I didn't even know. Firstly I read 'There is a Hippopotamus on My Roof Eating Cake', then I read 'Red is the Best' and then I read 'The Twins'.
I saw a lot of my friends siblings at Indra it was pretty fun.
from Lauren.
Middle C 

Premiers' Reading Challenge!

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open. The Challenge encourages families to be actively involved in supporting their children to read a set number of books and record their efforts online.

You can find out all about the challenge at Premiers' Reading Challenge 2014

St Luke's is very proud to be a part of this challenge.

We will send home all the information you need to participate next week.

HAPPY READING EVERYONE!

Welcome!

We are very excited to have a new blog to show all the wonderful learning and reading that happens at St. Luke's Library in 2014.

Here are our newly elected Library Leaders who are very eager to help in the Library and spread the love of reading throughout our school. 

'I wanted to be a Library Leader because it is fun working in the Library. I will get to read different books and see different books.'

'I wanted to be a Library Leader because I enjoy helping out in the Library. I enjoy reading and books.'

'I wanted to be a Library Leader because I like books and because I want to help around the Library. I will put books away and help people.'

2014 Library Leaders