Adventures in the Library
Library
Why children and parents (or grandparents, aunties, uncles, carers, etc.) should read together.
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic recommend that parents read with their children beginning as early as infancy and continuing through primary school years.Reading with your children builds warm and happy associations with books, increasing the likelihood that kids will find reading enjoyable in the future.
Reading at home boosts school performance later on. It also increases vocabulary, raises self-esteem, builds good communication skills, and strengthens the prediction engine that is the human brain.
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HEALTH BENEFITS OF READING BOOKS
Hawker School Community Library is part of the One Card Network of the Public Libraries of South Australia, allowing us access to thousands of books throughout the state. We are happy to put books on hold for you child through the One Card Network. Please see us if you would like support in this way.
Library Information Week May 17-23
Theme - Adventures in Space and Time
Libraries and information services are places of adventure. People who connect with them take a journey, whether it's in search of specific information, serendipitous browsing through vast collections, or coming together with others to learn something new.
They can be an adventures in space, from sending actual books to a space station and hearing an astronaut read to over a million children in Australia, to exploring and meeting in new, innovative and inspiring building spaces and learning about other places around the world (and beyond). They are also online spaces, where we can interact virtually to stay connected to information and each other at times when we need to stay physically distant.
They can also be adventures in time, where we revisit the past, connecting with stories and memories of those who came before us, or imagine the future, exploring new ideas for making a better society to live in, creating new knowledge for future generations, and making plans for your own personal or professional future.
So, this week, connect with your libraries, and take an adventure - in space and time!
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On Wednesday, May 19, the students participated in the National Simultaneous Storytime, which took place from the International Space Station. This year, the picture book, Give Me Some Space! By Philip Bunting, was read by NASA Astronaut Shannon Walker from the International Space Station. National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Now in its 21st successful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book that explores age-appropriate themes, and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Foundation to Year 6.
By facilitating NSS we aim to:
- promote the value of reading and literacy,
- promote the value and fun of books,
- promote an Australian writer and publisher,
- promote storytime activities in libraries and communities around the country,
- and provide opportunities to involve parents, grandparents, the media and others to participate in and enjoy the occasion.
NSS receives positive media coverage, generates a great deal of community interest and is held annually as part of Library and Information Week. 2020 was our biggest and most successful NSS to date with over 1,297,000 participants at over 14,469 locations, including participants from New Zealand, Thailand, UK, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam and Hong Kong.
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Digital Literacy
The 3-5 students are completing their 3D models for the Space to Dream competition. Following on from this, they will be involved in the Premier’s Reading Challenge STEM Design Challenge. This will involve them in planning an invention (description and drawing) inspired by a STEM book (with a space theme) that we will read from the PRC list.
The F-2 students will also be involved in this challenge. They will be creating an artwork based on the STEM book that we read, which will also have a space theme.
It seemed rather appropriate to continue developing the space theme after our involvement in the National Simultaneous Storytime and Library and Information Week in May.
Visual Arts
At the end of last term and early this term, Suzanne Lowe spent time with the students focussing on Still Life and Life Drawing using charcoal. It was definitely an interesting experience for us all, not only learning to draw with charcoal, which has an interesting texture, but also to draw fellow classmates.
We are now focussing on creating an artwork in mixed media to enter a nationwide art competition. Currently, we are experimenting with some different kinds of media so that we can choose which media to use for our artwork. The theme for the competition is