Congratulations to A9.  They correctly guessed the First Line of a Book Competition. Sam from G1 came a close second.  Well done!  Kate from B2 got 2 out of three correct.  Thank you to those classes that entered.

William Joyce

This short film,  is going around the Library Blogs at the moment.  It is really well done and is about a man whose books are his only friends.  It takes about 15 minutes so you need to allow some time to watch it.  We have books in the Library by William Joyce, 'Bently and Egg', 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson', 'Dinosaur Bob', 'George Shrinks' and 'The Leaf Men'.  There is a really good IPad app for this as well have a look if you get the chance.



 

Name that Book

This week's competition is the first sentence of a book.  You have to name that book.  There are three categories, Senior, Middle and Junior.

Senior

1.  'When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.
2.  'Everybody knows the Story of the Three Little Pigs or at least they think they do.'
3.  'If you went into a school nowadays and said to the children: "What is a gump?" you would probably get some very silly answers.'  

Middle

1.  "Where's Papa Going with that axe?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
2.  'Mr Piggott lived with his two sons, Simon and Patrick, in a nice house with a nice garden and a nice car in the nice garage.'
3.  'These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket.'

Junior

1.  'The sun did not shine.  It was too wet to play.'
2.  'Camilla Cream loved lima beans.  But she never ate them.'
3.  'Our story starts with a lump of pastry that Horace's Mum gave him, which Horace would usually roll about over the floor and furniture until it was deep grey and fluffy.'

Email me with your answers:-  library@easternhutt.school.nz
(or put your answers into the comments section)

Photo Competition

Congratulations to E4 who correctly guessed the photo competition.  Well done!  Also a special mention to A9 the first class to send me an email but unfortunately got one wrong.  In case you were wondering the answers are:- 
Part of the scarf from the Harry Potter painting, the star from Lilly's boots in the book kite from Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and part of a chair in the Library.  Look out for next week's puzzle. 

It's been wonderful seeing all your faces again in the Library.  The Library will open again at lunchtime in the third week, as next week I will be training the new Librarians for 2012.
For a bit of fun this week can you look at the photos below.  They have been taken in the Library and they are part of something that is in the Library.  I have zoomed in on the object so the photo is showing a very small part.  Hint:  they are not books!!  Email me with your answers library@easternhutt.school.nz

 

Back to School!!

Welcome back.  I hope you have been reading lots of books over the holidays.  We have new picture and fiction books in the Library on green dot.  You will notice that half of the non-fiction books are packed away.  This is because the roof and interior of the Library will be worked on in March.  For the month of February you will only be able to issue one book out but you can change that book as many times as you like.

I will take a photo of the Librarians soon and put it up on the blog.  Enjoy your first week.

Term 4

Welcome back to our last term.  What a busy term it will be!  Our first week started with a whole school Diwali Celebration so we had lots of Diwali activities happening around the school. 
New books (green dot) are out on our shelves come in and take a look.

The Librarians are busy finishing their Awards which are due at the end of this month. 

Term 3

 Wow this is our school!!

As you can imagine the Library has been a busy place with this cold weather.  What better place to be than in a warm place reading!  The books mentioning snow have been particularly popular this morning!

We had a great start to the term with a visit from 17 Japanese teachers having a look around our school.  
Also all the classes have chosen a country from the Rugby World Cup to represent and have found out lots of interesting information. The Library and Office chose Scotland (as we have a Scot among us).  We had 'The World in Union' and bagpipes playing and the children had their Passports stamped with the 'Loch Ness Monster'.  Take a look at the photos from other classes.

Librarians 2011

Our Librarians for 2011:-

They work really hard on their duty day before school, morning tea and lunchtime.  

From the Did You Know? Files

The latest from the 'Did you Know?' files!!  J K Rowling is about to launch a new Website called 'Pottermore' in ONE days and 11 hours.  No-one seems to know what is going to be on that site.  We will have to wait and see.  Click the link below.


www.pottermore.com

Book Week

We recently had a wonderful Book Week. We started the week with D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read), where the bell signalled for us all to stop what we were doing and pick up a book.  Our theme for the week was ‘Growing Readers @ Your Library’.  We had a Decorated Door Competition with each class decorating their door with a book theme.  On the Friday we had a Book Character Dress Up Day where everyone dressed as their favourite book character.  Take a look at some of the photos.

These two decorated doors were first equal in the Senior Syndicate. 

These doors were first equal in the Middle Syndicate.

These two doors were first equal in the Junior Syndicate.

The Judges made two special awards
one for imagination and the other for
'making the Judges Smile'.