Admin EditClive Pig going down a Storm!
We are now into the second day of our visit from storyteller Clive Pig. We had heard he would be good and he has certainly lived up to expectations! He is fantastic! Year 1 and 2 have been mesmorized by Clive's stories yesterday and today Year 7 came out of their session beaming. Clive is telling different stories to every single group of students so do share his stories and develop the wonderful oral traditiion of story telling!
Hopefully parents will all know about our special session for them on Thursday morning at 8.00 n the black box. A fabulous way to celebrate World Book Day. Hope to see you all there.
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Alan Gibbons' Books Available Now
Hi Everyone
Make sure you check out the Patana Newsletter this week to find out all our library news. Lots is happening and there is so much to celebrate!
http://www.patana.ac.th/Gateway/PatanaNews/NewsItem.asp?VolumeID=15&EditionID=20&NewsID=1970
You will have seen all the posters advertising World Book Day around school. Why not use this long weekend to get your costume ready. Looking forward to seeing some wonderful book characters on the 7th March.
Also, visiting author Alan Gibbons' books are ready for borrowing in both libraries. I love the Football stories and think you will too. Be sure to check them out.
Find time to read over the long weekend.
Ms Sal
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Catch Up on Library News
Hi Everyone
Great job on sending the photographs in. We have two wonderful displays now. There has been a lot of interest in them.
Also, a big well done to everyone who is entering the mystery question competition. The mystery prizes will be arriving any day now.
Keep your eye out for a Blind Date with a Book extravaganza in February!
I have just been, what I believe is called, 'surfing' the net! And have found this website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/500words/2012/
It has a great new writing competition and lots of interesting book recommendations. Do take a look.
Happy Reading!
Ms Sal
PS There are extra copies of the Cassandra Clare series in the Secondary Library now so waiting time should be reduced.
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year Everyone.
... And what a busy start it has been to the term in our libraries!
On Monday the Secondary Library was buzzing with Year 7 students completing their QR treasure hunt and assessing the evidence for murder! It was a super way of raising awareness of the resources we have and to think about how we collect evidence and evaluate our resources. We were delighted to be part of the new Balance Unit and look forward to being further involved. Related to this do always remember to use a range of sources and resources when completing your work.
Other news has been highlighted in the Patana Newsletter. A big congratulations to Duncan Bouchard who has won the 10-12 year old age category for the Jeri Telstar 2012 writing competition.
We are really enjoying being involved in the Bangkok Book Awards. Juk's Adventure in Bangkok is proving a popular choice in the Early Years and Letters from Thailand has been a popular book club choice amongst staff. Voting is now open so please do go to the following links and post your comments and cast your vote. http://blogs.shrewsbury.ac.th/bkkbookawards/
We are very excited to announce a new competition. It is not dissimilar to the Guess Who Teacher photo competition, but this time it is children's photographs we need.Please can you email:
- An attachment of a close up photograph of your head with the face partly covered by a book. See the example (leave enough head showing to make it possible to guess who you are.)
- Your full name and class
- Two or three sentences explaining: what the book is about, what kind of reader they would recommend it to and why they like it.
If you could send this in the next two weeks that would be great. Many thanks for that.
So all in all, an exciting start to the term ahead. We can't wait to read your comments and see you participate in the voting. Have a great start to the new year. Don't forget to send your photographs.
Best wishes
Ms Sal
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Winners and Wimpy Kids
As always, it’s been a fantastic and busy week in the Primary Library.
On Monday, the 7th book in the Diary of the Wimpy Kid series- The Third Wheel- arrived in our Libraries. In the Primary school we had over 100 children pre-reserve a copy! Ms. Sal bought us 20 copies of the books and our avid readers are getting through the fun and laughs of Jeff Kinney’s book quickly. So if you are on the waiting list, keep patient ; Greg, Rowley and friends are headed your way soon!
There was another lucky child in the school this week. Alexis from Year 3R was the winner of the monthly Reading Raffle! Alexis recommended reading the Rainbow Magic Fairy series and won 500baht worth of book vouchers from Asia Books! This month’s Reading Raffle is all about Christmas or Holiday stories. Share your favourite book and you could be next week’s lucky winner!
Speaking of winners, three Year 6 teams competed in the Asia Books Readers’ Theatre competition yesterday at Central World and were all victorious. The Too Many Gumpies team from 6J, Charlotte, Julie, Lucy, Samuel and Fresh, won second prize in the 9-12 International School division. They won 6000 baht worth of books for our Libraries, and 10,000 baht worth of book vouchers to share amongst themselves- what a prize! Our other teams, Agalee and Fern (6E) and Luke and Klang (6F and 6S) were awarded honourable mentions for their reading and each team won 2000 baht worth of books for our library and 2000 baht worth of vouchers. Well done to all the readers!
Getting to read stories in front of judges and crowds was a GREAT experience.
Not only do we get useful prizes and rewards, the pleasure of getting to represent Patana was fun.
If you're in Year 5 or 4, try it (again)next year!
Well done to the people that won the readers theater!!!
Published on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 LikeI am really sad because I was to late to sign up for the diary of a wimpy kid :(
but I am happy for the people who got it. @}-
Readers' Theatre was an an AMAZING experience! I loved every bit of it!
Published on Friday, November 30, 2012 Like
I think that Readers Theatre is a really good programme that encourages young people to be more confident at their reading because in the competition you have to read in front of a whole audience and judges. I felt excited when I knew I got into the finals because there were 27 teams that submitted the video in our school and we got in. I think we improved a lot if you compare the video at school to the finals.
Published on Thursday, December 06, 2012 Like