At the start of this brand new year the students at Cromer School
are certainly enjoying the library. There are lots of interesting areas to
relax and enjoy the many new books that have been purchased in the past year. We
have created many more labelled boxes which make it much easier for both the
students and teachers to find texts by favourite authors or that provide
information on specific subjects.
The students enjoy visiting the library each Monday, Tuesday
and Friday morning before school and at lunch time on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Friday. Each class attends library lessons for a weekly forty minute lesson.
Please endure that your child has a library bag (preferably waterproof) on
their designated library day.
This year we welcome Ms Kimberley Lee to the library as
library teacher each Friday.
The Premier’s Reading Challenge
The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for
leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality
literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to
read more and to read more widely. (NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge Website)
The challenge will open on the 7th of March and
all students are encouraged to participate.
The Library Program
Kindergarten:
This term the kindergarten students will participate in a
study of the work of Julia Donaldson. Her most famous book is the very much
loved classic The Gruffalo. In our series of lessons we will study The Gruffalo
and a number of Donaldson’s other works. The students will participate in a
variety of related interactive activities using the Panaboard.
Years One and Two
I would like to extend the reading experience of the students
by introducing them to the wonderful reading adventures that can be found in
junior chapter books. There is a very large collection of junior chapter books
in our library and throughout the term we will read a variety of texts from a
number of different series that are on offer in the library. A different set of books has been selected for
each grade.
Stage Two (Years 3 and 4)
The students in stage Two will undertake a unit of study
that is designed to help with the development of their research skills. We will
be using World Book Online as well as film clips and books to research the following
topics:
Environmental Pollution
The Human Body
Space Exploration
Feasts and Festivals
At the end of each research unit individual classes will
create a challenge using the interactive tools in Smart Notebook. These
challenges will be completed by the other classes in Stage Two.
Stage Three (Years 5 and 6)
Visual Literacy involves the skill of interpreting still and
moving images, graphs, tables, maps and other graphic representations. It
incorporates the understanding and evaluation of the manner in which images and
language work together to present ideas.
The students will participate in a visual literacy program
which explores the techniques used in the development of multimodal texts. Using
the program The Text Files, the students will examine the techniques used in
the production of plays, television advertisements, billboards, computer
adventure games and comics.
The year is off to a great start and I am looking forward to
our reading adventures in 2016.
