Adventures in the Library
n Wednesday, May 19, our students from Kindy to Year 12 participated in the National Simultaneous Storytime, which took place from the International Space Station. We joined an amazing 1,980,280 participants at 33,418 locations across Australia, New Zealand and other countries around the world to listen to NASA astronaut, Shannon Walker, read the picture book, Give Me Some Space written and illustrated by Philip Bunting. How amazing that technology allows us to be able to connect with people, not only across the world, but also in outer space.Students in Reception to Year 5 are involved in The Premier’s Reading Challenge STEM Design Challenge. The F-2 students have drawn, coloured and painted a picture of an astronaut in space after reading the book ‘A is for Astronaut: exploring space from A to Z’ by Traci N. Todd.
After reading the book, Rocket into Space by Ragbir Bhathal, the 3-5 students learnt the problems associated with space junk and some of the ways that are being developed to help clean it up. Their challenge has been to design an invention that would help clean up the space junk. It could be as wacky or as realistic as possible. We looked at some of the interesting designs of inventors and illustrators, Rube Goldberg, William Heath Robinson and Alan Snow to help provide some ideas.
In our library lessons, we have started looking at the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals that have been designed to be a ‘blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.’ These goals were set up in 2015 by the Unite Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.
Author Visit
Children and Teens author, Rosanne Hawke, will be spending time with the students on Wednesday August 18, sharing about writing and the stories she has written.
Book Week, Week 6 Term 3 (August 21-27)
Theme: Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds.
Book Week Parade will be held on Wednesday August 25.
Book Fair will be held in Week 7, Term 3 (Tuesday August 31- Thursday September 2)
Visual Arts
The students are currently working with mixed media to create an artwork that follows the theme of Our Celebration of Australia. Mixed media art is where a more than one media (for example, acrylic paint, watercolour paint, oil pastels, drawing ink) is used to create the artwork.
