Can You Hear It?

This week we have looked at one of the paintings in the Can You Hear It? book which was put together by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

The painting we looked at was called 'Chrysanthemums'.  In this book, they have paired pieces of art with pieces of music that are of the same theme. In this case both the painting and the piece of music feature a bee.

We listened for the flute, clarinet and violin in the piece of music 'The Flight of the Bumblebee'.  Here is an orchestra playing this piece of music, you will be able to see the instruments we talked about and listened for when we listened to the CD.

PINTEREST BOARDS

We now have a pinterest account for Manaia View School Library.  You can find it here
Manaia View School Library Pinterest

At the moment we only have one board called Booktalks 2016 - these are the books I talk to you about during class visits.  I will also be creating more book boards, so keep checking our account...

BABYMOUSE BOOK

Oh my gosh, I am so excited to see that our new series Babymouse have arrived.  They will be on the shelves soon (red shelves, look for the Babymouse pocket).  These are the cutest, sweetest, funniest graphic novels.

Cute Pop Up Book Film - The Happy Duckling

It was such a miserable day today, we decided to have our story as a movie, check it out, it's so cool.  Room 7 and 17 enjoyed it.

Story Mapping in the Library

This week we tried our hand at Story Mapping, every class so far has been amazing at this!  After I have read the story we think about all the different parts in a Story Map, Title, Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution and the Theme.  Here is an example from Room 7.  We will continue to do this throughout the term with our read aloud story in the library.

Autumn Leaves - Week 2 Term 2

Last week we had the best time with our class visits.  We talked about Autumn, read some amazing Autumn poems from Paula Green's book (she visited us last year), wrote a class poem and then created incredible leaf Hedgehogs and leaf faces

Photos from our Mobile Bus Visit - Last week of Term 1

Finally had a chance to put up a few photos of our visit to school with Glen from the Mobile Bus Library.  Such a fun day, songs, stories and of course the ROBOT!!!!  We will look to get him back another time as it was so much fun.