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Fantastic news for Alex Rider fans. Alex is back in his seventh exciting book Snakehead. This book is set in Australia and looks to be as thrilling as the previous ones. If you wish to be the first person to borrow our copy be the first to reply to this blog entry.
For those of you wishing to begin the series here is the order of the books: Stormbreaker, Point Blanc, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia, Ark Angel and Snakehead.
Which book is your favourite?
Historical fiction is a great way to find out about life in the past. The Pagan Chronicles bring to life the crusades of the 12th Century. Set in Jerusalem they tell the story of Pagan, an orphan, who has been taken from the streets to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight. There are five books in the series: Pagan’s Crusade, Pagan in Exile, Pagan’s Vows, Pagan’s Scribe and Pagan’s Daughter.
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Congratulations to everyone for a simply fantatic book fair. Once again, we topped our previous year’s sales. You purchased just over $10 000 worth of books. This means that we will be able to select $1 500 worth of books from Pages. If you have any requests please let me know.
Our annual bookfair is on next week. Pages have delivered all the books and they will be ready for you to look at during your library lesson next week. If there are any books that you think should be on display, please let me know and I’ll see if we can get them during the week. If the book you wish to purchase sells out, Pages will order the book for you. I hope you all enjoy the week.
Last week we were fortunate to be visited by another author, Yvonne Horsfield, grandmother of Brigitte in KM. Yvonne read her book Meg, Mog and Miss Molly to the children. The book was written for the children of St Brigid’s Primary School Ballan in Victoria. 
Today children at our school were fortunate to have author, Roslyn Motter visit our school. Roslyn entertained the children and spoke to them about her books, The Doofuzz Dudes. They learnt many new words like skookum which is Chinook Indian for awesome. Skookum tumtum means really awesome. Gabbi, Thomas, Jessica and Damien were the lucky winners of a copy of The Doofuzz Dudes. You can visit the Doofuzz Dudes website by clicking on the link at the right.
The final book of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has hit the shelves. I have purchased two copies for our library and they will be ready for borrowing on Tuesday.
A special thank you to Angus and Maddy for setting up the Harry Potter display. Well done!
You might like to add a comment telling me what you think of the last book in the series.
I’ve already had someone let me know what they are reading these holidays. Thank you Tamsyn from 1RM. As the last post about holiday reading was a long time ago, I thought I’d add another post today so you can easily find all your comments.
Currently I am reading the Lemony Snicket series of Unfortunate Events. I’m really enjoying them. I’m trying to guess what happens at the end but I won’t tell you what I think! The Beaudelaire children Violet, Klaus and Sunny were orphaned when their parents died in a tragice fire. They get sent to live with various relatives with unfortunate consequences. Many of my questions have still been left unanswered – what is the significance of the eye and just who is Lemony Snicket?
What are you reading these holidays?
I promised year 6 I would link two great programs to this blog. Last week 6F looked at Google Sketchup and 6J trialled Pivot Animator. Both these programs would be great for some holiday fun. Click on the links and you can download them to your computer. Don’t forget to ask your parents permission before you download a program. You might save your best work and email it to me and we can showcase it at school next term.
Congratulations to the following children who have finished the Premier’s Reading Challenge. A wonderful achievement!
Kindergarten
Joel
Year 1
Josh, Liam, Darcy, Blake, Claudia, Ruby, Alexander
Year 2
Sienna, Jack, Alice
Year 3
Wilber, Bradley, Connor, Tristan, Olivia, Avalon, Ayla
Year 4
Casey, Liam, Phillip, Jacob, Thalia, Mhairi, Shay, Gabbi, Jacob, Ziggy, Dougal, Thomas, James, Ellie
Year 5
Amy, Nathan, Emily, Alexander, Kaisha
Year 6
Cain, Jackson, Jordan, Wesley, Adrienne, Briony, Alexander, Marcus, Arnad, Abbie, Taylah, Eilidh, Sharni, Mitchell, Isaac, Jessica, Rebecca, Georgia, Kiri, Alyson
