Book+Week+2011

**Children's Book Week **
==**20 - 26 August 2011 **==

**One World, Many Stories **
For more information on Book Week, visit the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) website

===Our school will be having a Book Week Parade on Thursday the 25th of August, at 9.30am under the COLA. === Family members and friends are welcome to come and celebrate with us, and to admire the wonderful costumes our students wear on the day. Some students will also receive literacy awards and there will be a lucky draw for students who have dressed up for the day. A book fair will be in the library, so students and parents can buy some books after the parade. What an exciting day it will be!

The themes will be very straightforward this year. We will be making props to go with our costumes at school. The themes will be as follows: K/1C & 1/2/3W - Animal tales from around the world <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3/4M & 5/6H - Cultures of the world

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you need some inspiration, you may find it from these websites:

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tinga Tinga Tales - Traditional animal stories from Africa. A colourful fun website for kids. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">NGAkids Jungle - create your own jungle with animals in it. Lots of animal ideas. You will need Shockwave for this to work. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dreamtime stories - This website tells us some dreamtime stories about how Australian animals came to be the way they are.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Animal Tales: **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">SparkleBox, Clothes around the world - posters with some ideas of the kinds of clothes various cultures wear now or wore in the past. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity Village, Children around the world colouring pages - not only entertainment for all, but some ideas for costumes. Printouts of these pictures will be in the library for colouring at lunchtime. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make a Native American feather headband- This headband was not as symbolicly important to the North Eastern tribes who wore it as some of the other types of headdress which were worn for war and special occasions (see this website for more information). <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kiva's American Indian Symbols Dictionary - Useful for the creation of an American Indian Headress. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your name in Chinese - write your name using beautiful Chinese symbols. Remember your writing needs to go from top to bottom instead of from left to right.
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cultures of the world: **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you know of any websites we can add to these lists, let me know!

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are having a **<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">colouring competition ** in the library - if you wish to enter, just come into the library at lunchtime and choose a culture picture of your choice to colour in. Cut it out, put your name and year level on it (e.g. Yr 2), and put it in the folder to go on display.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">This video reminded me how lucky we are to have access to so many books, and to have those books organised in a way that we can (usually) find them easily. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check it out ...

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maybe you could come to the book parade in a sombrero on a donkey!