New Teachers Survival Guide

 

 

Perfect for our third years who are starting to think about heading out into the big wide world next year. It is a challenge enough to stand in front of your new class on your first day, but what about their challenging behaviour? This book will help you start as you mean to go on in your teaching career by helping develop positive relationships, gaining  confidence and being aware…….Great little book.

 

Her Story: Women Shaping New Zealand History

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Her Story and His Story (also available) are wonderful little snapshots of New Zealand.  The photos and the stories stir lots of old memories and it is interesting to see just how much has changed over the years for the good, and sometimes not so good.  From Aunt Daisy to the Art of French Knitting or Earthen to Electric this book is a great slice of New Zealand.  So sit down open up and enjoy your piece.

Tough Questions – Divorce

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This book is written in a way kids can understand.  The illustrations are clear and the book is written with basic facts and answers.  Divorce explains why divorce happens, shared custody, adjustment and guilt among answering numerous other questions children of divorce want to know.

 

Literature for Children – David L. Russell

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What a wonderful book to have in all students and teachers collections.  Literature for Children includes various genres of Children's literature, including picture books to folk literature.  A fantastic resource for any teacher, with a passion for literature.  The book is also linked to myeducationkit  an online learning tool providing resources to help you in your classroom, including a database of children's literature. Fantastic resource for all teachers.

Life, Kindness & Giving….

New resources to the Library this week….

Plant a Kiss is a wonderful little pocket of joy to read to yourself and to read to children.  Little Miss plants a kiss and what results from this  is a wonderful story of love, kindness and giving. The illustrations are simple but beautiful with a gorgeous touch of bling!  This new book to our collection will definitely be one of my all time favourites.  Just beautiful……..

 

Trial by Ambush – Joe Karam

Click here to be taken to the interview with David Bain on '60 minutes'

Anyone who followed David Bain after that tragic day 20 June 1994, will find this book captivating, remarkable and incredibly thought provoking.  Joe Karam has been a public advocate for David Bain since 1996.  Karam was named by The New Zealand Herald in 2007 and TV3 in 2009 as one of their New Zealanders of the year, and his assertion that the first Bain trial was a travesty was vindicated by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and David's subsequent acquittal.

Remarkable Reading…….