Books Change Lives March is New Zealand Book Month!

New Zealand Book Month is an annual campaign to encourage us all to celebrate books and reading.

This March, we hope to put books into more homes across the country than ever before, by distributing four million $5 book vouchers as part of our Books Change Lives campaign.

Each voucher entitles the bearer to $5 off the book of their choice – that’s

ANY book they choose, providing its priced $10 or more – in any of 290 participating booksellers across the country. Your child should receive their book voucher today.

Has your child caught the reading bug?

New Zealand library week was launched on Monday morning when

the “reading bug” popped into a school assembly to read to the

children. Since then the library has been very busy every

lunchtime with children coming in to sign up for a reading

challenge. There are 3 different challenges the children can

participate in, all designed to either encourage them to read

more often or to read a greater variety of text.

On Wednesday morning we invited Jonathan Usher (our resident

magician) Brian & Diane Miller (local authors) and Bridget

Schaumann (the Kings High School librarian) to read Mr Muggs

the Library Cat to each division.

The reading bug also returned to read to the juniors. This was

part of a nationwide Library week event – “New Zealand’s

Largest Story Time”. All reading the same book at the same

time.

Catch the Reading Bug Launch!

Today at school we had the "Catch the reading bug" launch where we had a visiting reading bug surprise us and read us a book. You can see in the slideshow above how much fun it was having the Big Bug read to us!!

We also had the reading challenges explained to us by Mrs Milton and Mrs Todd, we have three challenges that we can choose from - a junior challenge - catch the reading bug challenge and alphabetical authors. The challenges are entirely optional but we think it would be great to see heaps of children participating.

This Wednesday we have some special visitors coming to read to us, mmmmm I wonder who they will be?

Thank you to Mrs Milton and Mrs Todd for organising this, it is going to be so much FUN FUN FUN!!

BOOK FAIR!!!!

Every sale at the Book Fair benefits your child’s school.

So join us in making our Book Fair a big success for our school.

Open Monday and Tuesday – 3.00 to 8.00 pm.

Wednesday – 8.30 am to 3.30 pm.

Reptiles

On Thursday we are starting a new topic in our library. It's about reptiles! There are quite a few reptiles dinosaurs being one of them. We decided to do reptiles because we have lots of information on them and it is a fun topic.

Reptiles are quite cool and interesting. So you could come along and read some books about them.

Jordan

What happening in our library this week!

For the last two weeks we have been doing a topic on the New Zealand children's book awards, we have all the books in the library who are in the finals so come along and have a look at them.

We have the voting cards so make your votes count.

Also we have new motor bikes magazines that all of the boys might like to read, they are full of interesting facts and also have a lot of cool stunts that people have been doing.

By Jordan

Librarian Techi

Year 7

Lunch time at our Library:-)