Let books open doors for you

Our 2014 Book Week Theme is

  Let Books Open Doors for You

We had an awesome week enjoying our visiting author Ruth Paul as well as the many other activities in the library.  

 It was great to have families join us and enjoy reading some of the "lucky dip" books during lunchtime.

The classrooms got into the theme and decorated doors, all sorts of cool ideas.  Thanks for your support teachers.

The library looks fantastic and we have books as the Key to History in the large Kiva.  Room 19 made the awesome shields.

We celebrated the cultural diversity of our school with our Round the World at Redwood School in the small kiva.  Thanks to all the families who shared items from their homes for us to experience and enjo. The interactive items were of great interest to all the children.

Harrison's Anzac Display

As part of his silver librarian award activities Harrison has created a wonderful display about Anzac Day.

Harrison chose to do a display on Anzac Day as he knows it is coming up, and he is interested in war stories.  Harrison created the display, and also chose all the books in the display.  He hopes you will enjoy reading them!  Well done Harrison

Theodore Seuss Geisel

At Redwood School we were pleased to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday, he made such a contribution to children's literature, in such a fun way - and it was great to celebrate him as a school in our pajama's for this event.

The teachers all did a super job of supporting this event, and the children loved it.   We had some displays in the library and school foyer, and lots of art and literacy activities were completed through out the school.

Lots of buddy classes got together and enjoyed reading the wonderful stories of Dr. Seuss.

We love reading in the summer

Jan always has a book on her!

National Library Trip

We recently took a group of Year 5 and 6 Lunchtime librarians to the National Library as acknowledgement of the hard work and accomplishments in the library this year.

The National Library is an awesome place.

The students got a great tour, they were taken down into the basement where there are several million books stored for research purposes.  It was amazing for us to see, some of the books were very very old.  We hung out on the lifelines table and were also taken up to the Alexander Turnbull Library where we got to read some old books in the Reading Rooms.

It was a great trip, and a big thanks to the students who have given their time in the library this year, it was a pleasure to spend the afternoon with you.

Book Buying

We had a great day book buying with some awesome Year 5 students recently.  Thanks Georgia, Lulu, Megan, Danny and Hannah for your help on our book buying day.  Look for these great reads being added to our collection soon....

Having a Yarn in the Library!

On Tuesdays at lunch time there are a group of us who are enjoying "having a yarn in the library".  We have started a crochet club with the help of Deryn and are starting to get the basic stitch down pat.

We have all sorts of projects in mind....have you heard of Yarn Bombing?  Sounds fun to us!!