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Books! Prizes! News!
Yes – simply by signing up to The Nest you can enter the draw to win a Puffin book a month for a year.
But you have to do it soon. Closes on the 31st August 2010.
Even if you don’t win you can still get the newsletter. All the information you want on new books for young readers. That’s you – so sign up today and be in to win.
There are also some fun activities to look at on the Penguin site.
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Just for something different to do during the holidays.
Multiplication cloud game. Race the clock in a great times table game. Just don’t get hit by lightning.
I like the cloud game because it helps me with my maths and it’s fun. Everyone should try it.
From Jack age 11
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Yes
The holidays are nearly here.
Check out some of the fun activities on these sites to do on those cold winter days. Post a comment if you have enjoyed them so others might also want to have a play.
Don’t forget there are many more in the authors page.
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17 June 2010
As we all know our new library is nearing completion. It still has a way to go but we are busy buying new books for the library. Take a look at the photo of some of the new books being donated by children and families from school. It is a great response so thank you to everyone who has very kindly supported us in this way. You can still donate books if you want. Check out the wish list in the school office. We have titles of new books we would like and titles of some of our favourites which are very old and much-loved but need replacing. It will be very exciting to see so many new books when we open our new library.
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10 June 2010
Well World Cup fever has hit. Our English principal Mr Sibson is all prepared to sit up at 4 am in the morning to watch all the games. But you won’t miss out if you don’t get up in the middle of the night as you can keep up to date with the games by checking out the FIFA website.
One of our caretakers, Mr Walker has made a wonderful world cup to add to our display. Pop in to the library to look at all the books on football, many of them are new books.
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Ghost diamond
by Michael Broad
This is my book review of agent Amelia.
I really enjoyed agent Amelia. My favourite one so far is Hypo Hounds, I have also read Ghost Diamonds.
This 9 year old girl is a secret agent.She has lots of adventures from lost cats to evil weeds.She always has a cunning disguise up her sleeve.If you enjoy funny agent stories this a book for you!
I rate this book 5/5
From Hannah
Thanks, Hannah for this great review. Do you know you can check out Amelia’s website with cool things to do? You can also read about the author too.
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20 May 2010
Results are in and I am very pleased to see Old Hu-hu by Kyle Mewburn won the Picture book category award as well as the New Zealand Post children’s book of the year for 2010.
The illustrations are beautiful and many classes shared this delightful and thought provoking book during their library visits.
The wonky donkey by Craig Smith won children’s choice but if you want to find out the rest of the results check out the Booksellers website.
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10 May 2010
Puffin books have just turned 70. They have published some of the best picture books throughout the years and you can check out some of them on their website. Be sure to take a look at their playground. Heaps of things to do.
They have just reprinted three of Margaret Mahy’s much loved and out-of-print books.
The witch in the cherry tree, The boy who was followed home as seen above and The three-legged cat. Each of these will be in our library very soon but there are many, many more of her books in our library.
Here’s Margaret Mahy, signing a copy of The witch in the cherry tree for our school, assisted by her constant companion, Honey the dog. Margaret came along to the Children’s bookshop in Christchurch to help celebrate Puffin’s 70th birthday.
And here is where you can find out more about Margaret Mahy.
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[dropcap2]D[/dropcap2]ewey Decimal is a ‘Classification System’. This is a special system which helps us locate books about different topics. The great thing about the Dewey Decimal system is that you can go into any library in the world and still find items based on what area they come under! Here is what each part of the Dewey system stands for: 000-009 General Works (encyclopedias etc) 100-199 Psychology & Philosophy 200-299 Religion & Mythology 300-399 Social Sciences 400-499 Languages 500-599 Natural Science & mathematics 600-699 Applied Science & Technology 700-799 Fine Arts & Recreation 800-899 Literature & Poetry 900-999 Geography & History
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4 May 2010
Scholastic standing orders arrived today. These are new books sent out to subscribing schools. One of the best things about this job is buying new books.
Alex is helping choose titles to keep for our library.
It is thanks to everyone at school who buys books in the Scholastic Lucky Book Club that we get enough points to purchase many of the titles for free.
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Last week saw the crane arrive much to the delight of our 500 students who watched with eager anticipation.
It is great that the children can see the day to day progression of our new library.
We will be on holiday for the next two weeks so it will be interesting to see how far the builders have progressed when we come back.
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19 March 2010
With all the talk and action in the school yard at the moment about our new library it was time to put up a display on construction sites. A huge big thank you to Paul our assistant caretaker for putting together such a great display.
The children coming into the library just point and go “Wow”.
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