Library
Premier's Reading Challenge
With 86 days officially remaining, here’s an update from our Premiers’ Reading Challenge event. Currently we have a total of 37 students that have completed the challenge.
Big balloons to those students and families continuing to record their books. The book reviews continue to roll in and I would like to congratulate the following students for their consistent and outstanding reviews:
Michelle W – 6H
Olivia W – 4M
Liliana K – 2B
Chloe Z – 2C
The total number of books read so far throughout the school is 4559!
Congratulations to this week’s top 5 readers:
Hetav from 4K – 245 books
Braxton R from 2B – 207 books
Levi from FE – 197 books
Koah from 3D – 189 books
Michael F from 5D – 170 books
Collectively Year 2 remain the challenge leaders with an astonishing total of 1591 books read! It is celebration time this week in 2B’s classroom as they have read over 1000 books!
What's new in the Library
There are yet more new releases available to browse and borrow this week in the Picture Story, Fiction and Non-Fiction sections. We would love to hear your thoughts on some of the new books, perhaps you could write a mini review for the Library.
Reading for at least 10 minutes every day
is proven to exercise your brain and improve
your memory!
Research shows that reading about a character’s thoughts
and feelings makes you kinder!
Books can help you see vivid pictures in your mind so you feel like you are actually immersed in another time or place. The whole world comes alive as your reading journey continues through each page.
The Great Book Swap
It has been wonderful to see some books arrive into our charity hamper in the office area as donations for our Great Book Swap event to support the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). As part of the event Karoo has been assigned to the MARANYDJALK house – this translates as Stingray.
The Great Book Swap is a fantastic way to celebrate reading locally, learn more about Indigenous Languages and culture, while raising funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF).
This year the ILF are aiming to raise $180,000! In registering to host a Great Book Swap event Karoo will be actively helping to gift the target of 18,000 new, carefully chosen books to children in remote Communities across Australia.
Consider what book or books you would like to donate to this wonderful charity initiative then place them in the clearly signed hamper in the office foyer.
The idea is to swap a favourite book in exchange for a gold coin donation.
The book swap event will be held in the school Library on:
Tuesday 14th November, 8:45am – 3:45pm
Students will be invited to visit with their class during the day and bring along their gold coin donations to browse and select a book they would like to take home.
If you would like to learn more about the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the amazing community led work they carry out you can visit : https://edu.greatbookswap.org.au/
We hope you all have a wonderful break and find time to snuggle up in your favourite spot with a great book!
Mrs Corrales and Mrs Hagan