Read Aloud Books

THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD by Julia Donaldson - http://www.quietyoutube.com/watch?v=QACTIURScnU&feature=youtu.be

MOG AND BUNNY by Judith Kerr - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUZavAkpnB8&feature=channel 
'Read aloud by a child'

 

World Read Aloud Day

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On March 7th

C.S. Lewis said, “We read to know we are not alone.”

Do you like to write poems?

Shelving in the library

Shelving Game

  

New books in your library Term 1 2012

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JUNIOR FICTION 

• The legend of the golden snail by Graeme Base  
• Hunting for dragons by Bruce Whatley 
• Zizzy by Penny Matthews 
• Potato music by Christina Booth  
• Wanted: the perfect pet by Fiona Robertson 
• Frederik goes bananas! by Melissa Firth 
• The bear and the wildcat by Kazumi Yumoto 
• The red bridge by Kylie Dunstan 
• Ships in the field by Susanne Gervay
• Flood by Jackie French
• The perfect present by Fiona Robertson
• A bus called heaven by Bob Graham
• The little old man who looked up at the moon by Pamela Allen
• Brucie save Christmas by Yvonne Morrison
• Fearless in love by Colin Thompson
• It's a miroocool! by Christine Harris
• Look, a book! by Libby Gleeson
• Grumpy little king by Michael Streich

FICTION

• The staring owl by Luke Edwards (Pbk.)
• Ned Kelly and the green sash by Mark greenwood (Pbk.)
• Queen of the falls by Chris Van Allsburg (Pbk.)
• The little wooden horse by Mark Wilson (Pbk.)
• Conspiracy 365: June by Gabrielle Lord 
• The red poppy by David Hill (includes CD)(Pbk.)
• Deep sea whale rescue by Jane Ramage (Pbk.)
• Edge of the world by Ian Trevaskis (Pbk.)
• Sam, Grace and the shipwreck by Michael Gillespie (Pbk.)
• The curse of the cheese pyramid by Geronimo Stilton
• Cat and mouse in a haunted house by Geronimo Stilton
• The great plague by Pamela Oldfield
• Roman invasion by Jim Eldridge
• Pompeii by Sue Reid
• Blitz by Vince Cross
• A home for Grace by Sofie Laguna
• Soul surfer by Bethany Hamilton
• Henry Hoey Hobson by Christine Bongers
• Captain Blunderbolt by Loren Morris
• The spies of Gerander by Frances Watts
• The golden door by Emily Rodda
• Boy vs beast: aquaterros by Mac Park
• Boy vs beast: stormasaurix by Mac Park
• Wildwood by Colin Meloy 
• Chicken stu by Nathan Luf
• Charlie Bur and the great shed invasion by Sally Morgan and others
• Sydney Harbour Bridge (My Australian Story) by Vasti Farrer
• Meet Nellie (Our Australian Girl 1849) by Penny Matthews
• The Grimstones: hatched by Asphyxia
• Losing turtle by Adrienne Frater
• Ophelia Wild: Secret spy by Elena de Roo
• Zac Power: Zac's wild rescue by H. I. Larry
• Zac Power: Zac's Icy Pole by H. I. Larry
• Zac Power: Zac's freaky frogs by H. I. Larry
• Zac Power: Zac's sticky fix by H. I. Larry
• Zac Power: Zac's ski mission by H. I. Larry
• Zac Power: Zac's bank bust by H. I. Larry
• Zac Power: Zac's shark attack by H. I. Larry
• Zac Power: Zac's moon trip by H. I. Larry
• The tunnels of Tarcoola by Jennifer Walsh 
• The little refugee by Ahn Do and Suzanne Do

NON FICTION 

People in history: over 100 questions and answers to things you want to know

Fantastic Millennium Facts 

Significant people in history - 9 volumes held in the Reference area

Ian Thorpe - live your dreams

The life of Jesus: through the eyes of an artist

Lightning Jack - A821.4 MIL

The ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon - A821 BLA

One small island: the story of Macquarie Island - Alison Lester - 994.6 LES

 

John Heffernan - Author

[Caption.iT - Face in Hole] Hi, I’m John Heffernan. I live on a farm at the end of a dirt road. The farm nestles in a beautiful little valley at the edge of the Great Dividing Range. From the top paddocks you really can see forever on a clear day, or absolutely nowhere when the fog swirls around you. Visit my website @ http://www.spudplus.com/wp/ to find out more!

QR Code technology in the classroom

To follow the latest information on QR codes in the 21st Century, click on this link

Want to find out more? visit my scoop it blog on QR codes in the 21st Century

Qrious learning from lnash

Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England and returned to Adelaide, Australia, in 1970. She is Australia's most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, "Possum Magic," is the best-selling children's book ever in Australia, with sales of more than 4 million. In the United States, "Time for Bed" and "Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge" have each sold over a million copies. Fox has written more than 35 picture books for children and five nonfiction books for adults, including the best-selling "Reading Magic." Her latest book is "Let's Count Goats"(Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing). Fox lives in Australia.

Watch Mem read her latest book 'Let's count goats'.  Mem starts reading at 13.56 minutes on the Youtube clip for 5 minutes.




Read-Aloud
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[Glitterfy.com - *Glitter Words*] The Outback is a dangerous place to live. So, Grandma Poss makes little Hush invisible to keep her safe. But, when Grandma Poss can’t seem to make Hush visible again, they take off on a journey to cure her. This Google Lit Trip focuses on the locations and foods featured in Memo Fox’s Possum Magic.


KOALA LOU

Welcome back to the INFOZONE library blog for 2012. Here is our new QR Code which will take you straight to your blog when you have scanned it with your iPad2, iPod with camera or smartphone which has a QR reader application.
Some really good QR readers available at the iTunes app store or on your Android handset are QRset or QRme or Qrafter Pro if you really want to have some fun in creating your own.

http://infozone2.blogspot.com/

I look forward to sharing information with you. 

NATIONAL YEAR OF READING 2012

Want to recommend your own book?

Here is the chance for you to recommend your own book. Here are some questions for you to answer to recommend a book.
How many stars do you rate it?
What age group do you think it’s for?
How many pages are in it?
Why did you chose to recommend that book?

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AMAZING 2RED AND 3RED had every student FINISH THE PREMIER’S READING CHALENGE And 98 STUDENTS have completed the Premiers Reading Challenge in our school.

Hand over!!

I've been feeling pretty guilty about the Library Blog lately as I simply don't have the time to keep it as up to date as I like. So I've decided to 'hand over' to the monitors. I think they would love an 'extra' job each week telling of our news. I'll add them as a contributer & tell them on Monday. I think they'll do a great job!!

The Children's Book Council Winners were announced today.
Did one of your favourites get chosen?
During the week we will be displaying and reading some of the Award Winners!
It will be a great week!!!!

How are we going with the Challenge?

Well, only weeks to go and I've had a steady stream of students bringing in completed Premier's Reading Challenge lists. Well done everyone so far!

If you have not finished yet, don't stress....we have till the end of August to finish. Congratulations again Mrs Richard's class, they are almost completely finished,- only one or two students to go!



Get a Voki now!

What are lounges for.......? Reading of course!!!!!

That's much better! We have purchased some great new places to curl up and read....and our students are already taking advantage of them. This is what reading is all about....having fun, relaxing and enjoyment. What better place than on a nice comfy lounge! I wonder who will be reading there next week????

Create Your Own

Technology is becoming more and more a part of our daily lives and very important in the area of Education. We have been very fortunate this year in receiving an Australian Government Grant, IOSP (Investing In Our Schools Program). Technology now plays such an important role in education it is important that we can provide adequate access to computers for our students.

Our students have been busy at work using technology in so many different lessons. Not only are the computers used in the Library for research, students are using computers in classrooms for Maths, Reading Groups, Art and Integrated Studies. Our students have posted onto 'Blogs', have used 'Learning Objects' in classes and have accessed quality websites that have enhanced their learning opportunities.

Week 3 Re-decorating!

This week sees the arrival of our new furniture! Now there will be some nice places to sit and read in comfort! Looking good HFS Infozone!!!!

2007- We are finally back!!!

Whew!
The first term suddenly flew by and all at once we discovered that there had been no posts! Here's hoping that everything will get back to normal again!

Well, the first term did see some BIG changes in our Library. Not only did the layout change, but the way we use the Library in our school has changed as well. It is now becoming an even busier place, with the capacity to now run activities for a few different classes at the same time. We can run technology based lessons, borrowing & reading activities simultaneously now!

We've also been getting more into Web2.0 tools with more classes getting involved.

There have been many exciting improvements to talk about- so there will be plenty to put into posts now!