Term three
ended with a wonderful celebration of reading. The students thoroughly enjoyed
the presentation made by illustrator Sarah Davis. She is an extremely talented
artist with a teaching background. She shared many of her artistic techniques with
the students and gave them the opportunity to practise being artists
themselves. We will all view her books with new eyes in the future.
Our book
fair was a wonderful success and we have again received a generous commission
in the form of new books for the library.
The library monitors accompanied me to the annual Lunch with the Stars
in the great hall of the International School Management in Manly. It was very exciting to meet so many of our
favourite authors.
Finally our
annual book parade concluded a very exciting book week. As usual, the students
and teachers went to a great deal of trouble to represent their favourite book
characters. This is an event that everyone at Cromer looks forward to with
great anticipation. It did not disappoint.
The Term
Four 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 interactive
activities using the Panaboard.
Year One
The students
will study the work of illustrator Freya Blackwood. They will read books
written by various authors that have been illustrated by Blackwood and will use their visual literacy
skills to analyse her inspiring work.
Year Two
The students
will work together to study the components of digital stories. They will use a
variety of digital tools to collaboratively create stories.
Stage Two
The students
will undertake a study which has been designed to expand their research skills. Each class will undertake a research project.
They will read the information in the chosen article, locate the key ideas and
use these ideas to design question and answer activities for other
classes. These activities will be
designed using tools in the interactive multimedia section of the Smart
Notebook program.
Stage Three
The students
will participate in a visual literacy program which explores the techniques
used in the development of multimodal texts. Using the television program The
Text Files, the students will examine the techniques used in the production of
plays, television advertisements, billboards, computer adventure games and
comics.
Stocktake
This year
the stocktake will begin in week 8 of the school term. Borrowing will cease in
week 6 after which time I will be requesting that all items be returned to the
library.
