End of Foundation Year

Today marks the final day of school for 2012 and the end of our foundation year.  Our library is a friendly, fun and fabulous place - many thanks to all the students, staff, parents and volunteers who have made it a special place at Amesbury School.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 

Scholastic Book Fair

The library has transformed into a shop for a couple of days. The Scholastic Book Fair is on Friday 30th November and during the gala day on Saturday afternoon (2-5 pm) Come and buy some books for yourself or to give as Christmas presents. Our school benefits as the more books we sell the more free books we earn.

Dream Catchers

Harakeke students have been investigating art from other cultures. One group investigated dream catchers. They asked questions, searched for answers and shared their findings with the group. A couple of findings are explained in the video clip by Samuel and Ella. If you would like to make a dream catcher see the instructions written by Karina and Samuel in the post below.

how to make a dream catcher!

equipment:

paper plate
scissors
hole punch
wool/string
beads (optional)
feathers
hot glue gun

steps

1. Cut out the inside of the plate. 
2. Punch holes around the outside of the plate.
3. Thread the wool through the holes (you can add beads if you want.)
4. Punch holes at the bottom.
5. Thread the wool through the holes so they hang down.
6. Use the hot glue gun to glue on your feathers.
7. Thread a piece of wool through the top of the dream catcher so you can hang it on the wall.

finished! 

QR Codes & Book Reviews

Harakeke students have been writing lots of great book reviews recently. Whenever a review is published on our blog not only do they get a world wide audience but we also put a QR code on the book in our library. Scan the QR codes to read the opinions of your own classmates as well as read the blurb on the book when you are deciding whether to read a book. You can use the iPads or the iPods - the QR code reader app is called BeeTag.

 

Stories for 8 Year Olds book review

Title: Stories for 8 year olds
Author: unknown
Reviewer’s name: Emma D

I think you should read story’s for 8 year olds because it has got some really funny stories that people that like mystery books will like this book.

I like this book because it’s really exciting and most of the stories in this book have really exciting ends one of the books in this book called the Twin Witches and it’s about two good witches one called Tracy and the other one called Stacy and if you don’t like rhyming story’s don’t worry because it isn’t.

There is a story called Stan’s Sundae Secret and the book is a mystery book. There was a little boy named _______ (I can’t tell you or it would ruin the story).  He knows when it’s Thursday because Stan the ice cream man comes up the road playing a song that was very catchy and that all of that because I don’t want to tell you because I would spoil the story.

The Magic Finger book review

Title: Magic finger
Author: Roald Dhal
Reviewed by: Anish


ummary: The girl, who is the character who tells the story, was a friend of the Greg family, but then she saw the Greg family shot a deer. She was angry because they shot the dear so she put the magic finger on them and... .  I’m not giving away the ending because otherwise it would ruin the story.

I like the way they wrote and illustrated the book.  It was a very good magic, for example the teacher turned into cat by her magic finger.

I will say 4/5 for this book.