New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Competition: Years 4-10

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Here is a FUN competition for Years 4-10 students! Have you seen the book, Dear Alison, by Simon Pollard (ed.)?

This might be a great project to do in your class!

Or maybe you'd just like to do it for fun!

Either way, you're sure to have fun creating your A4 diary page and decorating it! You can use any format to create it, too!

It can be based on any character in any of the 'New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards' finalist books. When you have finished, your teacher can enter it in the competition for you. Entries close on 5 May.

Good luck!

New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Competition: Pre-school - Year 3

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This looks like such a FUN competition for Junior students! Have you seen the book, Piggity Wiggity Jiggity Jig Goes to Dad's Cafe, by Diana Neild and Phillip Webb?

This might be a great project to do in your class!

Or maybe you'd just like to do it for fun!

Either way, I bet you'll have fun designing your dish and naming it! When you have finished, your teacher can enter it in the competition for you. Entries close on 5 May.

Good luck!

Kids' Lit Quiz

Do you love reading...., read a lot of books...., like to have fun....? Then the Kid's Kit Quiz may be for you!

The Kids' Lit Quiz is a major national celebration of books and reading. It is a great competition with other schools to test your knowledge about books, characters, authors and more. The winning team from each heat competes in a National Final. National Champions then compete in the World Final, which is in Edinburgh (Scotland) this year.

Anyone from Year 6, 7 or 8 who is interested in being in the team to represent our school is invited to come to the Library in the first break on Monday 22 March.

Have you "checked out" the new Library website?

We have a new Library website, along with this Library Blog - have you seen it? You can get to it from a link off the Springston School homepage, as well as from this Blog. Please check it out, and bookmark it on your computer at home.

This Library website has been created so that you can find some of the quality resources that are available on the internet - some great sites that may help you find information a little more easily. The Library website is organised into different sections to help you find what you want.

The website is still being developed, and new links will be added. Our next step will be to create a Delicious bookmark account for the Library, where we can store useful bookmarks for students to use at home or at school. So, keep looking back over the next few weeks to see these new developments. And, if you know of a really good web site for students, please post us a comment letting us know what it is, so we can consider adding it to the website, or to the Delicious bookmarks.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Imagine reading this many books!

Here's a New Zealand family with a wonderful 'addiction' to books and reading - a family of book worms! Read the online article about them from the Dominion Post newspaper.

They have borrowed 2044 books in the past year! Read about why they love reading, and check out the list of their favourite books.

Do you keep a list of the books you read?

How many books to you think you might have read in the past year?

Please let us know by commenting below!

Teacher Book Wizard helps you find suitable books

Use Scholastic's free Teacher Book Wizard to help you find suitable children's books. Search by Title or Author or keyword, and find a book at the interest level for your age, and your reading ability.

Try it and see if it works for you, then post a comment below, to tell us what you think.

Meet our Librarians for 2010

Congratulations and welcome to our Librarians for 2010:

Morgan, Chloe, Alex, Philippa, Sara, Kachina, Emily, Ana, Matthew and Jahna.