National Literacy and Numeracy Week

This week is National Literacy and Numeracy Week. In the library we will be sharing a special book, Herman and Rosie, which was written and illustrated by Gus Gordon.

Gus Gordon is an illustrator and author. He grew up on a farm in northern NSW and, after leaving school, worked on cattle stations all over Australia before deciding to pursue a career in drawing.

Gus illustrated his first children's book in 1996 and has now illustrated and written over 70 books for children.

Gus's illustrations are known for their loose and energetic line work, mixed media and humour. His writing is always anthropomorphic—where animals take the place of humans in the narrative. He attributes this to his love of Wind in The Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

Gus's first picture book, Wendy, is about a motorcycle-riding stunt chicken and was selected as a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book in the 2010 Book of the Year Awards.

Gus lives with his wife and three children on the Northern beaches of Sydney.

Discover more about Gus Gordon, his writing and his illustrating on his exciting website.

Read reviews on Herman and Rosie and get a sneak peak at the book.

Watch the Auslan translation of Herman and Rosie. Use this fantastic translation simultaneous mass read during NLNW 2013.

Information and images taken from the NLNW website http://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/national-celebration-literacy/read-australia

Welcome Back to Term 3!

Can you believe how fast this year is whizzing by? We are over half way through the year now with only 2 terms of 2013 to go. Term 3 is always a really productive term.

CC image by Philip Martin

Term 3 is also a great term in the library because we celebrate Children's Book Week. 

Source: joondalup.wa.gov.au

This year it is in Week 6, from Saturday August 17 until Friday August 23.

The theme is "Read Across the Universe". Each class will focus on one of this year's shortlisted books and will make a presentation at a special Book Week assembly. More information on this later.

Marrickville Library School Holiday Activities

Polar Diorama

Create your own Antarctic 3-D world complete with polar animals and icebergs. For 5 - 12 year olds. Bookings for events are essential and will be taken from Tuesday 18 June 2013 onwards. Phone 9335 2173 so you don’t miss out!

• Tuesday 2 July 11am - 12pm: St Peters Library
• Monday 8 July 3pm - 4pm: Stanmore Library

Sparrow Sports workshop

Shake out the winter cobwebs in this fun, physical session, including games of Stuck in the mid, slingshots, tug of war, sack races, team games and more. For 5 - 12 year olds. Bookings for events are essential and will be taken from Tuesday 18 June 2013 onwards. Phone 9335 2173 so you don’t miss out!

• Tuesday 2 July 2pm - 3.30pm: Marrickville Town Hall

Egyptian Pharaoh craft

Transform into an Egyptian pharaoh complete with jewelled head-dress and collar. For 5 - 12 year olds. Bookings for events are essential and will be taken from Tuesday 18 June 2013 onwards. Phone 9335 2173 so you don’t miss out!

• Wednesday 3 July 11am - 12pm: Stanmore Library
• Friday 12 July 2pm - 3pm: Marrickville Library

Pterodactyl Mobile

Be transported to a prehistoric forest when you create a mobile of flying dinosaurs. For 5 - 12 year olds. Bookings for events are essential and will be taken from Tuesday 18 June 2013 onwards. Phone 9335 2173 so you don’t miss out!

• Thursday 4 July 2pm - 3pm: Dulwich Hill
  Tuesday 9 July 2pm - 3pm: St Peters

Tropical Bird Collage

Create a tropical jungle collage where birds of paradise and toucans flash their fine feathers. For 5 - 12 year olds. Bookings for events are essential and will be taken from Tuesday 18 June 2013 onwards. Phone 9335 2173 so you don’t miss out!

• Friday 5 July 3pm - 4pm: Marrickville
• Wednesday 10 July 2pm - 3pm: Dulwich Hill

Circus skills workshop

An exciting workshop run by Circus Unique, offering training in unicycle, stilts, pois twirling, juggling and more. Please note this event is for 8-12 year olds. Bookings for events are essential and will be taken from Tuesday 18 June 2013 onwards. Phone 9335 2173 so you don’t miss out!

• Monday 8 July 10.30am - 12pm: Marrickville Town Hall

NAIDOC Dreamtime stories and craft

Celebrate NAIDOC Week by listening to Dreamtime Stories and making Australian animals to decorate your bedroom. For 5 - 12 year olds. Bookings for events are essential and will be taken from Tuesday 18 June 2013 onwards. Phone 9335 2173 so you don’t miss out!

• Tuesday 9 July 11am - 12pm: Marrickville Library

Learning to Search the Internet for Information

In library lessons we are learning about searching the internet for information. 

Last week we learned about website evaluation. It is important to make sure a website has been created by someone you can trust and who knows about the topic. Also, the information must be up to date and easy for you to understand.

We viewed a hoax website about octopuses that live in trees. It was designed to teach us about website evaluation. 

Nearly everyone was tricked, but we learnt a valuable lesson - not everything on the internet is true! Click on the link below to visit the site.

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Kathy Schrock has developed the 5Ws of Website Evaluation. Click on the link to find out what the 5Ws are.

This week we are going to try searching for information with a kid-friendly search engine called KidRex. Let's see how  much good information we can find.

             Searching for Information? 

                         Try KidRex.

Do you ever feel like this when you're reading a good book?

Original image by Debbie Ridpath Ohi  Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

I know I do!

Marrickville Library - Books at Bedtime

This work by Phillip Martin is licensed under a Creative Commons 

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Welcome to Term 2!

Time has been flying by so quickly this year! 

We are already into our second term. 

It's always a busy time in our library. We are still working on a library makeover and have been locating all the old books and adding many new books and resources.

We will have a sale of our old books and videos later this term. 

        

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Library and Information Week 2013 

During the week of May 20-26, St Brigid's Library will join organisations from Broome to Hobart, celebrating Library and Information Week 2013.

Library and Information Week aims to raise the profile of libraries and information service professionals in Australia and showcase the many and varied resources and services that libraries provide to the community.

The event has been organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) to promote the value of reading and literacy, the importance of Australia's book industry and the role of libraries.

During our library lessons in that week, we will be taking a virtual tour of libraries around the world.
For more information on Library and Information Week around Australia, visit http://www.alia.org.au/liw/.

National Simultaneous Storytime

One of the events for Library and Information Week will happen at 11am on Wednesday 22nd May. It will take place at St Brigid's and all over Australia. 

It is called National Simultaneous Storytime. This is an important annual campaign that aims to encourage young Australians to read and enjoy books.

This will be the event's 13th year. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator is read simultaneously (at exactly the same time) in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places all around our country.

National Simultaneous Storytime aims 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 public libraries and communities around the country;

• provide opportunities to involve parents, grandparents, the media and the wider community to participate in and enjoy the occasion.

This event is organised by ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association), which is where teacher librarians have their professional membership.

You might have guessed from the image above that the featured book this year is The Wrong Book by Nick Bland. There is some information about Nick at the Ashton Scholastic site.

Original images taken from the ALIA website http://www.alia.org.au/