This coming week we will be holding 'The Great Book Swap' to raise money for Indigneous Literacy Day. Students have already begun to bring in books that will be on the tables in the Community room for the swap. On Thursday 7 September students can bring a gold coin donation and swap their book with another book on the table. In preparation for this special event we have created a display in the library highlighting some of the fantastic Indigenous books we have available for borrowing. 

Last week we celebrated Book Week and students across the school created artwork inspired by the shortlisted books. Some examples of this student work is now on display in the Inspire centre. There is also a display of student dioramas from Science week in the foyer of the Inspire centre. We love to have parents/carers visit so please drop in to say hello and view this fabulous work. 

Book Week 2017
What a wonderful week it was in the Inspire centre this week. There were lots of different activities for students and families to engage in. Our book display in the library helped us "Escape to everywhere." Year 3 classes had a visit from Mrs Otten to 'A bad case of stripes.' They created artwork to show what they have a bad case of. Year 1 students visited the Inspire centre and listened to Mrs Otten read 'Chip.' They created artwork of Chip in disguise. 3 classes from the Amaroo day care centre visited Amaroo school to listen to Mrs Otten read 'The Snow Wombat.' They created a winter hat using cardboard and cotton balls. Mrs Otten also visited the Diamond Terrace dressed as a butterfly to read 'The very hungry caterpillar' to students.
On Wednesday night we held a special Family reading night. We got a 'taste' of some new books and listened to Ms Bailetti and Mrs Otten read stories.
On Friday we enjoyed a special Book Week assembly which featured a message from author Tim Harris. Students from the book club read us a story and we presented the Family reading night prizes. Congratulations to the winners. A huge thank you to Book Face in Gungahlin for donating a book voucher as 1st prize.
What a wonderful week.

 

Book Week

Book Week has begun with great excitement at Amaroo School. The book fairies have arrived in the library. Mrs Otten has been busy telling stories in different classes across the school.

Students have been exploring the Book Week theme 'Escape to Everywhere' by reading lots of books and using their imaginations. Year 3 students listened to the story 'A bad case of stripes' by David Shannon and then drew a picture of them with their own bad case of..... Their artwork expresses something that they love more than other people may. Mrs Otten's artwork was 'A bad case of music' The artwork will soon be on display in the Inspire Community room. 

We are looking forward to seeing you all in the Inspire@Amaroo centre on Wednesday 23 August. There will be stories to listen to and a 'book tasting' activity. Tea/Coffee and Biscuits will be served. Come any time between 5-7pm and stay as long as you like. Don't forget to get your ticket for the prize of a book voucher donated by local Gungahlin bookstore Bookface.

  

Book of the Year winners announced!

The Children's Book Council of Australia book awards were announced today.
You can see the winning books in all categories on the Children's Book Council website.
Click on the link to have a look.
Book of the year winners
We have copies of all of these books in the Inspire centre for you to borrow.

Book week at Amaroo school ( Monday 20- Friday 25 August)
We have some exciting events happening in the Inspire centre for Book Week.
We will have a special visit from some book fairies as well as some other book characters. Mrs Otten will be visiting classes across the school to read stories and hand out special Book week bookmarks.










Wednesday 23 August from 5-7pm we will be holding our Family Reading night in the Inspire centre. Come along to hear stories, read together and have a 'book tasting'. All students P-10 are invited to attend with their families.


On Friday 25 August we will be having a special Book Week assembly hosted by the book club students. Students are invited to come dressed as their favourite book character. Following the assembly, students in years K-6 will parade in their costumes so we can all take a closer look. Mrs Otten will be looking out for the most creative costumes.

National Science week in the Inspire@Amaroo centre

To celebrate National Science Week we have created a special display in the library. Students have been busy watching the egg shell disappear and using a magnifying glass to look closely at the patterns on the shells.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6IAoiiixt7wdVhMVkNXOEhDYnc/view?usp=sharing 

There are worms hiding in the dirt and animal puppets to play with.

Students have also been searching for the hidden science objects in the 'Find it'

Congratulations to our New Library Monitors

Last weekend I read applications from students who were interested in becoming library monitors. 

I am happy to announce that the following students have been selected. 

 

Year 4 monitors - Eadie, Alison, Muthu, Dathan, Alicia, Israt, Lachlan, Suranya, Anthony, Patryk, Hayley, Chloe, Jamie, Iman, Trevin, Tara, Sabina Emma, Lucy, Zoe, Christian, Naina, Adison, Anishka, Zach. 

Year 5 monitors - Methushan, Mirabel, and Bea

Year 6 monitors - Amy P.

Year 9  monitors - Laura O and Alisha C.

Each of these monitors will be rostered for 1 duty per week to help in the library. They had some amazingly creative ideas for how to make the Inspire@Amaroo centre even better. I look forward to working with them for the rest of the year. 

We will be holding our first Library monitors meeting at B1 on Tuesday week 5.

Love your book shop day.

LOVE YOUR BOOK SHOP DAY!

Are you looking for something fun to do this weekend? 

Love your book shop day is Saturday 12 August. 

Our local Gungahlin book store - Book Face is having a party. 

Visit them on Saturday dressed as your favourite book character and you could win a $50 gift voucher. There will also be storytime, a raffle, freebies, special offers and lots more. 

  

What's happening in the Inspire@Amaroo centre

What's happening in the Inspire centre? 

One of the shortlisted books for this year's Children's book awards is "The Snow wombat". We have our very own snow wombat on display in the library. Come and visit to preview the book and say hi to the wombat.  Another new addition to the Inspire centre are the 'book buddies'. These are a collection of soft toys for students to cuddle or read to. This week in the Makerspace we created straw rockets. We used 2 different sized straws to construct the rocket . We blew on the bottom of the small straw to make it launch.