Are we there yet?

 

Are we there yet?

Travel Australia with the family on their adventure via Google Earth by visiting http://googlelittrips.org/

National Simultaneous Storytime (Cranky Bear)

Bob Graham - Author

Bob Graham has written and illustrated many children’s picture books. He was born in Sydney, and studied at the Julian Ashton Art School. His books are well known for their simplicity and humour, told from children’s perspectives, including “Oscar’s Half Birthday,” “Buffy,” ( Smarties Book prize silver award winner) and “Let’s Get a Pup” ( shortlisted for the 2002 Kate Greenaway medal; winner Boston Globe-Horn book award.) He won the 2000 Smarties Gold medal for “Max”, the 2003 Kate Greenaway medal for “Jethro Byrde,” and the Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award four times. Other titles include “Queenie the Bantam,”( highly commended for the Kate Greenaway medal,) “Dimity Dumpty” and “Brand New Baby.”

Bob Graham - Author

Access your library from home

https://loginparra.catholic.edu.au:8443/nidp/idff/sso?id=8&sid=2&option=credential&sid=2 

Find your favourite authors or titles by signing into your student portal. You can also find the next Lexile you would like to read by viewing your catalogue.

Electronic Resources for Projects or Knowledge Building

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http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.

 General Information

First School Years was created by a small number of primary teachers to provide worksheets and resources for parents and teachers of children in Early Years and Key Stage 1. Many of these resources are available as free downloads however we do provide a small selection of purchasable items in order to cover costs such as staffing, the software required to create the resources and the costs involved in maintaining and running the site. 
Although all links from this site are tested for their quality and relevance, responsibility for content on these sites lies entirely with the site's creators.
All efforts have been made to ensure that images, sounds and text used within our site have been done so with the appropriate permission. If you believe you own the copyright to any included image, sound or text and you feel that it has not been used appropriately, please email us so that we may investigate and act accordingly.
Some of the artwork used in our worksheets has been produced by S. Fitton.
All worksheets and resources are ©Copyright 2001-2008 First School Years. Permission is granted for educational use only. Please do not distribute our resources by any other means.
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/

 Vocabulary, Spelling and Grammar

Please be aware that this site is American based for spelling eg. Color as opposed to Colour, however there are some very useful links and resources.

http://lcgshub.wordpress.com/curriculum-resources/english-resources/vocabulary-spelling-and-grammar-resources/

Test your knowledge

Free Colouring pages to download

CLICK HERE TO JOIN

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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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?

fancygens.com

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!!!!