Book Trailers

In our class we are making book trailer. It is like movie trailer but for a book. First we see if anyone has read the same book. Then we choose if we want to make a poster, a video, puppet pals or a comic. If you don't know what puppet pals is it is a app where you can take a picture of the drawing you drew and then you choose a background or take a picture of one. After that you film your voice and move the puppets on the screen. Then we all sit in a circle and share our work. What a fun topic.

here are some of our book trailers:

Charlotte & Meredith

Tom

by Katie

Katie and Jade's Book Trailer - Adventure in the Amazon

Adventure in the Amazon

by Susan Aguilo

By Katie and Jade

Book Week

This week is book week. On Thursday we dressed up as our favorite book characters. Each day in the middle block we had a teacher that read a funny book to us. We also have put up book reviews that we like. 

We had a parade for our costumes that we wore. If you went in the library there are sheets (for each syndicate)where you can fill in a competition about a couple of books. Also on the wall there were pictures of teachers and you had to guess there favorite book.

In the library you could make bookmarks. Teachers wore the funniest costumes (all the kids laughed at them. Our principal called Mr Mac and our deputy principal called Mrs Lang both dressed up as Thing One and Thing Two, from Cat in the Hat. It was really fun!


from Katie, Maddalena, Robin, Grace and Jasper  :-)   

20 Book Challenge

In Room 10 we are doing the 20 Book Challenge.  We have 2 terms to try and read 20 different books.  They have to be different genres such as fantasy, comedy, non-fiction and historical.  In our readers notebooks we have a chart to show how many books we have read.  When we finish a book we colour in a triangle.  We had a discussion about challenging ourselves to read books that are different and sometimes a bit harder than what we are used to.  The funny thing we found out is that most of our class still keep reading a book even if it's boring! We have hopeful readers in our class!

After we finish reading a book we are going to share our ideas about the book to our classmates.  We will have learning conversations with each other, book "sells" and book swaps. Part of our sharing is going to be bringing books from  home to share with others.

We are going to use our teacher Miss Stubbing as a book idea person. Miss Stubbing reads a lot of books.  She likes to read children's books and young adult fiction as well as adult novels (and picture books!). We are going to use her to help us choose books.