Our Book Week ideas ...
How are you approaching the Book Week theme?
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Ky Fitzsimmons: Wellington PS
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Competitions
Jamie Castellas: Taylor's Hill PS, VIC
Around the Worlds (1).pdfRachel a Cos: St Gregory’s College Junior School
For Worse Things, I had my year 6’s examine the visual aspects of character on the cover after reading chapter one then they created their own cover piece referencing their personalities.
old worlds letters.mp4
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Annette Allen: Robert Townson PS
Virtual Book Week 2021.pptxCheck out this blog for DIY bookmarks
Sue Burke: Surveyors Creek PS
Book Week 2021.mp4Jenner Beeche
Lockdown message.mp4
Leanne Heffernan: Yowie Bay PS
Yowie Bay PS Book Week 2021
Lee Hegarty: Cocos Islands District High School
CBW 2021 Rebus Clues.pdfResponse sheet and answer sheet for the CBCA Rebus puzzles - thanks Lee!
CBW 2021 Rebus Clue sheets to fill in for students.pdfCBW 2021 Rebus Answers.pdfEvery Country’s Most Famous Mythical Creature: the Sasquatch. Baba Yaga. Curupira. They are all bizarre creatures who have been widely claimed to exist ...
This site has great maps and cool information but you should be selective about what you make available to your primary students
Same information: different format HERE
Competition ideas
Laure Rhodes: I’m hosting a competition where students have to design a ‘new or other world’ and give it a name. Winners get a voucher to spend at the book fair. Otherwise designing a book cover is a good one too - change the cover of your favourite book.
Jodie Shepherd: gather pictures of old items such as washboards, hand drill, icebox etc. and have your students guess what they are used for.
Michelle Rutter: This year we are running a design a postcard competition for our primary students using the CBCA theme as inspiration. Other years we have created bookmarks and one year we did guess my book print. Teachers nominated childhood books that had inspired them and we printed them on footprint templates. Students and staff had to match the print to the teacher. Lots of fun!
Megan Edles: I'm doing a shredded book competition. Not my idea, I found it on Pinterest. Students have to guess the title and author of the shredded book. The jar is kept on the circulation desk so kids can see it easily. I may do 3 of them this year- one shredded book from old world, one from new world and one from other world.
Alison Cunningham: William Clarke College
Aster's Good, Right Things Ch 1.pdfThe Book of Chance Ch 1.m4aBindi Ch 1.pdfBindi p1-11.m4aThe Stolen Prince of Cloudburst Ch 1.pdfThe Stolen Prince of Cloudburst Ch 1.m4aThe Book of Chance Ch 1.pdfThe Book of Chance Ch 1.m4aWorse Things p1-27.pdfWose Things p1-27.m4aWe Are Wolves Ch 1.pdfWe Are Wolves Ch 1.m4aKristy Beatton: links to CBCA quizzes & puzzles
Stage 3 CBCA Scans, Quizzes and Jigsaw Links.docxStage 2 CBCA Quizzes and Jigsaw Links.docxSeeSaw Activity Sharing.docxSeeSaw Activity Sharing.docxKathryn Schumacher: Pembroke College, SA
We have a full week of book activities planned. Our course we will have our Book Week parade (weather permitting), a Bake a Book competition where we will be asking for cup cakes. Our library monitors suggested that entry relates to Year level, so Year 2 submits two cupcakes, Year 5 submits five, etc. We have a visit from author Phil Cummings, a pizza party for students in Years 3-6 who have completed the Premier's Reading Challenge, a Masked Reader competition where staff record themselves reading a story and then add the mask. using an app. Students then have to guess the teacher reader. We are also considering having a mystery reader in the library at lunchtimes.
Michelle Adair: St Paul's Primary
I always provide many competitions for the students leading up to Book Week so they have opportunities to win a free book at the Book Fair. This will be one of my new ones this year- design your own toilet roll character.
I’m doing all of the characters from Charlie & Choc factory as inspiration
Other comps include story writing, make a bookmark, book in a jar, colouring in, film a mini movie or mime a music video, design Book Week poster & because this year I’m twisting everything around Willy Wonka they can invent a new sweet treat.
To make this awesome giant fairy floss, Michelle used two plant stands, painted them white and covered them with chicken wire. She then covered them with pink material for the base, and then just wrapped pink tulle around and around and around. Add a bit of sparkle, and voila!
Check out more of Michelle's ideas on her Instagram at mrspsbookshelf
Sally Kershler: PS
Here's something I'm doing with the staff at my school to have a little bit of fun with the Book Week theme. Feel free to use it if you like it.
Hi Everyone,
You've all heard of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?...but have you heard of Where in the World are the Kingy Staff?
This year's Book Week theme is Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds. I would love to make a display using photos from all the Kingy Staff to support this theme (a bit like I did with the Guess Who? display in the library last year). Here is what I would like you to email to me:
• A photo of you with a famous landmark or scene in the background. The kids (and staff) will have to guess "where in the world" you are. It could be a photo of you ANYWHERE in the world, e.g. you standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Disneyland, Taj Mahal, Colosseum, Great Wall of China, Uluru, diving in the Great Barrier Reef, or even at Kingy Creek! It can be local or on the other side of the world.
So start digging through all your old travel pics and send them through to me ASAP please.
Thanks so much for joining in the fun.
Michaela Wren: St Augustine's College
Shelfie to selfie: staff members shared a picture of their personal bookshelf and a selfie. They had to leave a little clue in both pictures to help the students, eg My selfie has my bird on my shoulder and in the shelfie, the bird was sitting on the bookshelf. Another teacher took her selfie with her glasses on the top of her head and these glasses we on the bookshelf. The students were not initially told about the clues to look for, this was left until closer to the end. Students took an 'answer sheet' which had the staff members' names and they matched it to the bookshelf number - the display in the library had a number next to each shelfie.
Gillian Cornwell: Kingswood South PS
I have pulled all the notables we have at school off the shelf. I have made a bookmark for each book with stars on it. I have made a display and put the bookmarks in the books. The idea is the student borrows, rates the book (out of 3 stars) brings the book and bookmark back so someone else can borrow and rate and at the end of the term / beginning of next term see if what we vote for and what gets shortlisted matches.
Gillain has shared her bookmark template:
Notables - Bookmarks.docxTaklyn Cor: PS
Do a story sale. This is where students set up little stalls to sell things, eg Miss Muffett's spiders. Bad example but you get the idea. Harry Potter's wands. Kids make items and sell to raise money for something special in the library. Have to dress in character to sell. Hansel and Gretel's gingerbread cookies. They can be as creative as they like.
We see that although children live in different countries, may look different and speak different languages, the joys and discoveries of childhood are universal.
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Michelle Noble: Narellan PS
This year I’m doing a “where in the world are our teachers?” guessing competition.
Teachers send me pics of somewhere around the world they have visited and students try to match to the teachers’ names.
So far I’ve collected some amazing photos from all around the world. The kids are going to love it!
A great CBCA activity from Marika Simon: Fort Street PS
Imagine that you have found a new animal when exploring a NEW WORLD or OTHER WORLD. Create an entry for it in our Encyclopaedia of Newly Discovered Animals
Note: this is to be printed as A3
Jenny Cocks: Eden PS
Travel display in progress. Signage to come. Children will try to match happy snaps to countries and ask teachers questions. To promote this activity one teacher will be the secret traveller and the first child to ask a question of this teacher will win a prize.
Gina Krohn: Glenfield PS
Old Worlds (history, biographies, etc), New Worlds (sci-fi, fantasy, anything fiction, etc) and Other Worlds (space, the ocean, plants, human body, microbes ....). I'm hoping this will give me scope to explore lots of NF and increase students' general knowledge/expose them to amazing information that gets their brains engaged and spark some interest in things they haven't encountered before.
This Pinterest comes from (mainly) a K-2 library.
Louise Passmore: Tullimbar PS
I'm doing three boards - old, new and other. Old will be a scroll, new will be Minecraft/video game themed, other worlds will be a TARDIS (borrowed from a colleague) with signposts to various fantasy places. Students will be given recommendation slips to write short book reviews and stick them on/in whichever display suits the book. Other students can then come along and pick a world to read a book from if they are unsure.
Ideas waiting for you to expand upon and share!
This folder has Word and PDF files for the Bake a Book competition held in 2019, with the theme reading is my Secret Power. It was inspired by Bake a Book competitions held by other schools. Our kids had great fun, and we made it a combined fundraiser, with Year 6 cutting the cake entries and selling slices the following day.
Five stars for fun and engagement!
Robyn Norris: Dungog PS
Book Feature Fair: Stage 3 prepare a stall with a specific book theme and other Stages visit, wearing their Book Week costumes.
If you have more information about this, please email tlccin2018@gmail.com
Sue Barry: Five Dock PS
One of my teachers gave me an idea. Ask the students to send pictures of themselves reading in unusual places.-up a tree, under a blanket and make a PowerPoint to show them.
Lisa Fuary: Berkeley Vale PS
Teacher swap.
Teachers go to a different class to present their favourite book however they like - art, drama, etc. The kids love it and teachers do too. This year I plan on having teachers work in rotation, rather than just having one appearance. Last year, the teachers chose if they wanted to swap and who with and when. It was totally voluntary so the keen ones did it and everyone involved thought it was a great experience.
I'll also be doing a scavenger hunt round the school with laminated images. This was extremely popular last year, when I got lots of clip art animals, different size images and about four to an A4 page which I laminated. Each image had a number and I hid them around the school, eg stuck with blutak to windows, tree trunks, etc but visible from paths so no student went out of bounds. The students were told how many there were and had to write the animal next to the number on a sheet. Or they could just find them. K-1 went with teachers and 2-6 went out as classes whenever it suited the teacher but roamed freely. They were really well behaved and I only had one picture go missing towards the end of the day.
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