End of Term 1

Term one is nearly over and we need to return all our library books for the holidays.
Our books need a rest too!!
Have a great break!

How Room 17 Reads in the Library

Look at these awesome readers in our library!

Room 13's Wonderful Library Display

A big thank you to Room 13 for their very colourful display in the library this week.

Question for you:
What do Sai Ho, Kaleb and Mrs Davies all like?
The answer is on the display.
Come in and find out.

Earth Magic

This term we have been lucky enough to have Ms Anderson, one of our learning assistants here at Pinehill School, share her book: Earth Magic with us.

We all enjoyed hearing about where the photos were taken and how she took them on her camera to get the best shot. We were surprised to find that some  photos were taken right here at Pinehill School!

Thanks for sharing Ms Anderson.

If I Were a Book...

Our poem 'If I was a book...' that we all helped do during book week has been very popular.
Come in and find your page!

Book Reviews

Catherine and Taahier from Room 10 recently read some new books to the Pinehill library and recorded their book reviews for you.
Come into the library, grab an ipad, scan the QR code and listen to what they have to say about these books!

Winners

              And the winners are:
             
              Picture Book: Mister Whistler by Margaret Mahy

              Non Fiction: 100 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa by Simon Morton

              Children's Choice: Melu by Kyle Mewburn

              Honour Award Junior Fiction: The Queen & the Nobody Boy by Barbara Else

              Junior Fiction: My Brother's War by David Hill

              What do you think? Do you agree?

NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2013

 Fiction Book Finalists: Uncle Trev & His Whistling Bull by Jack Lasenby
                                      The ACB with Honora Lee by Kate de Goldi
                                      The Queen & the Nobody Boy by Barbara Else
                                      My Brother's War by David Hill
                                      Red Rocks by Rachael King

 Non Fiction Finalists: Kiwi: the real story by Annemarie Florian
                                    100 Amazing Tales from Aotearoa by Simon Morton
                                    Taketakerau, The Millennium Tree by Marnie Anstis
                                    At the Beach: Explore & discover the NZ seashore by Ned Barraud & Gillian
                                    Candler

Picture Book Finalists: A Great Cake by Tina Matthews
                                     Mr Bear Branches & the Cloud Conundrum by Terri Rose Baynton
                                     Mister Whistler by Margaret Mahy
                                     Melu by Kyle Mewburn
                                     Remember that November by Jennifer

                  The winners will be announced on Monday 24 June 2013
                  Who will they be?

Chard Visits the Library

This week we had a very special guest in the library!
Mrs Mowat brought her dog Chard to school and we had turns reading to him in the library.
As you can see Chard seems very happy to be with us.
Come back soon Chard, we loved having you! woof, woof.

NZ Book Month Purchases

Following on from my last post, Caleb and Sua from Room 22 used their NZ Book Month Vouchers and purchased some new books for themselves. Enjoy!
Anyone else got some new books with their voucher? Only a few more days left of book month!

March is NZ Book Month

This is the month when we celebrate the joy of reading and all it's benefits.
Research in NZ and overseas consistently points to the importance of having books in the home, along with encouragement and support to read for pleasure, as greatly improving a child's chance of future success.
Each child at Pinehill School will receive a $5.00 off voucher to use at participating retailers in the month of March.
I would love to hear what books you chose to buy!
For further information about NZ Book Month visit: www.nzbookmonth.co.nz
Remember:

              BOOKS CHANGE LIVES

Thoughtful Words From Liam

 'I Love Library Words'

The Library is an elegant place. In the Library the non-fiction smells like serious business and the fiction smells like being free. When you open a fantastic book, you enter another world.

by Liam Rm 18 Year 4

Book Buying

Last Wednesday Mrs Moore and I had a great day choosing new books for our library.
What did we get? Well that is a surprise for when you come on your next visit! But we not only bought books! We also now have five more native birds in the library and a Hairy Maclary!

New Books for Week Nine

Here are just some of the new books in the library this week:

         Lego Star Wars Character Encyclopedia
         Pictures of Home by Colin Thompson
         Smelly Bill Stinks Again by Daniel Postgate

Come in and have a read. Remember we are open before school starts at 8.30am.
Which book is your favourite this week?

Mrs Howard Loves to Read

Recently we had a visit from Mrs Howard, our ESOL support assistant. She kindly read to Room 6 one of her favourite books Fire! Fire! by Lesley Rees.
Even though it was very noisy outside due to the construction of our new classroom block we all enjoyed listening to someone new!!
Come back soon Mrs Howard.

Rainy Day Reading

                       
                        What better place to be, than reading in the library on a wet winters
                         day!

                        My favourite new book this week is: One Smart Fish by Chris Wormell.
                        This is a funny tale about a fish who wants to walk on land!
                       

New Books!

Here are some of our new books for week 7:

Pop-Up London by Jennie Maizels

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Sweet Treats by Carolyn Beth Weil

The lemon bars in Sweet Treats look real yummy!

Come in and have a look at all our new books on display this week.

Winners!

Winner of the Non-Fiction Category: Nice Day for a War by Chris Slade
Winner of the Fiction Category: Super Finn by Leonie Agnew
Winner of the Picture Book Category: Rahui by Chris Szekely

Winner of the Children's Choice Award : The Cat's Pyjamas by Catherine Foreman

The NZ Post Children's Book Awards Finalists 2012

Picture Books
The Cat's Pyjamas by Catherine Foreman

Later by Tina Matthews

Stomp! by Ruth Paul

Rahui by Chris Szekely

 Junior Fiction

The Travelling Restaurant by Barbara Else

Super Finn by Leonie Agnew

Just Jack by Adele Broadbent

The Loblolly Boy & the Sorcerer by James Norcliffe

 Non-Fiction
 Nice Day for a War by Matt Elliott & Chris Slade

New Zealand Hall of Fame by Maria Gill

Digging Up the Past by David Veart

The Life Cycle of the Tuatara by Betty Brownlie

We will be sharing these books this week during library. What books do you think should win?

Mrs Matchett Loves to Read

At the end of term one Room 3 was lucky enough to have Mrs Matchett from our school office come and read to them.

 Here she is reading  "Cave Baby" by Julia Donaldson. This is a new book to our library, but some of you might recognise the authors name. Julia Donaldson writes the hugely popular Gruffalo books.

Mrs Matchett tells us she loves reading and we love having her in the library reading to us!!