Important Changes to Overdue Books

New Systems in place for overdues. IMPORTANT!!!
As some of you are aware, we have visited class and talked about renewing items by phone, email, my account while on posting. Please remember to renew your items as any outstanding overdues will be deducted from your student ID card. 20 books allowed on posting. And remember at the end of posting, bring your items to desk so we can clear your record for your own records. If you missed our visit to class please check library staff.

New Zealand Rock Music

 

Ready to Fly – David Eggleton

Click here to take you to Rock FM

Ready to Fly is a celebration of 50 years of New Zealand Rock Music.  Rock ‘n’ Roll, pop, mod, rhythm & blues, psychedelic, country rock, heavy metal, soul, punk, new wave, garage, funk, reggae, hip hop, dub and dance music – it’s all covered in this highly readable and accessible overview of our popular musical heritage.  Ready to Fly is required reading for anyone with an interest in New Zealand music and wants to catch a glimpse of where we have come from and where we are heading.

 

High Performers, The Secrets of Successful Schools – Alistair Smith

Click here to visit information at NZSTA

High Performers is a practical ‘how to’ guide, packed with tips and drawing on original research.  For school leaders and classroom practitioners, it gives sound evidence-based guidance on what some of the best schools have done to succeed on the learning journey. A must for any school team.

How to choose good books for children

 

Good Books Matter – Shelley Stagg Peterson & Larry Swartz

Click here to go to the Whitcoulls Top 50 Books for children

What a great addition to have in the bookshelves of any  librarian, teacher or a parent who has a love of books and wants to encourage children to read.  Good books matter has a wealth of suggestions for selecting and using good books to help broaden and enrich children’s lives and learning. You will find suggestions for using literature to implement shared reading, reading aloud, and strategies to help emergent, developing and independent readers.

 

Ruby – Colin Thompson

Click here to go to Colin Thompsons funky website

If Colin Thompson is one of your favourite authors & illustrators, then you will love to add this book to your collection.  Originally published in 1994, Ruby has just been re-released.

Look carefully….Hidden in the wonderful illustrations are six letters and numbers from Ruby’s numberplate.

Have Fun!

 

Library Displays this week…..

Come in and see our amazing  new displays

• Planting the Seed – We are growing Cress, Radishes, Beans…Easy to   teach your children in class or have fun at home.  Come in and check it out.  Remember summer is coming…
• Book Menu – Come in and sit and enjoy our dinner menu.  Fill in what books you would like to see on our menu…
• Ghosts, Goblins' & Witches -  Halloween is coming…     

New Resources

 

New Zealand Curriculum Mathematics

Stage 5   Early Additive    Number and Algebra

Click here to go to New Zealand Maths

If you are like me, you will remember these books as black & white text books from our school days…..now they are bright, interesting and full of exciting ways for kids to learn and be taught Maths in the New Zealand Curriculum

We also have available -

Stage 6 – Advanced Additive

Stage 7 – Advanced multiplication Books 1 and 2

 

The Call of the Kokako – Maria Gill & Heather Arnold

Department of Conservation – Kokako

The Kokako is New Zealand's biggest and most beautiful songbird, and this lovely book and its beautiful illustrations will be a treasure in any child's library.

It tells the story of the kokako and it’s fight for survival with the help of conservationists and community helpers.  It is a beautiful book full of extensive information on what is being done and how we can help, with illustrations that are a joy to look at.

New School Journal Information

School Journals have had a major change.  Each issue of school journal is aligned to Level 2, 3 or 4 of the New Zealand Curriculum and will now be identified by the month and year of publication.

School Journal Part 1 and Junior Journal = Level 2

School Journal Part 2 & 3 = Level 3

School Journal Part 4 = Level 4

Teacher Support material and audio MP3 files can be accessed through TKI website.  For further information check out the pamphlet in the library, on the wall by the school journals or click the link below for curriculum update 13.

 Click here to go directly to update info

New Resources

 

The Help – Kathryn Stockett

I do declare - Minny's Sweet Chocolate Pie Recipe

I loved this book! It made me laugh out loud, it made me cry, it made me smile.  As one of the students said to me when she saw me reading this, “The Help is the kind of book you wish you could read again and still enjoy it as if you were reading it for the first time.”

I don't have enough time as I would like to sit down and read a book, but… this book came with me EVERYWHERE, just in case I got a chance to flip another page. I knew I had a problem when i tucked it under my arm to take with me checking the sheep at lambing!!!!

 

Read it before you see the movie, I promise it will make you smile too.

 

The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon – Aaron Blabey

If you are a big fan of Aaron Blabey’s books Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, Sunday Chutney and Stanley Paste you will thoroughly enjoy the delightful tale of The  Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon. 

The poor townsfolk of the township of Twee are cursed by the ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon, her dresses were shabby and her moods always crabby! Enough was enough the people decided, she was to be removed.  But a delightful character named Herbert Kettle decided to visit Miss Annabel Spoon…But although scared to death, Herbert held tight his breath and he opened Miss Annabel's door……………

Fantastic story with beautiful illustrations.  One to definitely add to your home collection.

Editing Skills – Practical activities using text types

Follow this link to purchase from Curriculum Concepts

Great Supporting Resource for teachers to have in your  kit. Contains a wide range of reproducible activities for you to teach in your classroom.

We also have available Editing skills for ages 6-7, 10-11 and 11+.

New Resources

Sophie’s Legacy – Lesley Elliott

Click here to go directly to the  Sophie Elliott Foundation

In our home, Lesley and Sophie's names are spoken of often.  Our oldest son Logan was born at 24 weeks and spent 100 days in Neo Natal.  Lesley was our angel.  She left me notes when I had missed exciting milestones, she took photos of Logan during night shift and left them for me in the mornings, she made me a special corner by his incubator with the welcoming red lazy boy chair.  She is my angel.  Sophie’s Legacy is a heart-breaking story, about a beautiful, intelligent, bubbly girl who died at the hands of a monster.  Taking the courage to write  this book and the strength to start the Sophie Elliott Foundation in the hope of saving wonderful girls like Sophie in the future is important in raising awareness against violence to young women.  It is a book every mother and daughter should read and is a wonderful tribute to Sophie.

 

How people Lived – Jim Pipe

This book gives a snapshot of how people have lived through the ages – from cave dwellers right through to today’s high-tech societies.  Kids will love the illustrations, they have so much fun detail and interesting information that will capture their imagination and take them back in time.  Fantastic!