The week was full of daily activities/competitions, as well as guest speakers reading books to the class. There was much excitement with daily quizzes, and notices announcing spot prizes. To finish the week each class decorated doors/windows, got dressed up in character and joined a parade to celebrate. Although the rain was a dampener, the sun returned and tamariki got to admire all the hard mahi that went into decorating. What a wonderful way to get tamariki inspired and enthusiastic about reading.  
The rain was a good reminder of why we are fundraising - for an all weather cover over the courts! All in all, a very successful and fun filled week.

Room 10

Room 4 celebrated The Lighthouse Keeper - By Ronda Armitage and, David Armitage which has been a firm favourite of the class at The Discovery Hub. Favourite characters were painted on our celebration window along with a basket full of mustard sandwiches!

Holly Waite from Room 4 dressed as Cat Kid 

Room 5's focus book for Book Week was 'Aliens Love Underpants' which the children thoroughly loved. We designed our own underpants, wrote about aliens, learned how to draw an alien and read many of the other stories in the 'Underpants' series. We had such a fun week!

We had Sally Sutton visit Room 3 and 11 on Tuesday, she has been writing picture books, children's novels and plays for two decades. She has also been awarded several Storylines Notable Book Awards for her work, and in 2009 she and illustrator Brian Lovelock won the Picture Book category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for Roadworks. The children were familiar with a lot of her books and The Cat From Muzzle is a favourite for Room 11.  Micah was lucky enough to dress up in Road Workers gear although it took a while to find the appropriate clothing which Room 11 and Room 3 found extremely funny.

Looking forward to next year's Book Week already!

Room 12

The children in Room 12 had a great time celebrating Book Week. Book logs were filled in and Bingo boards were completed. We read lots of books from the Hairy Maclary series by Lynley Dodd and had great fun drawing our own versions of Hairy Maclary. We thought our pictures looked amazing and they are now part of our door display. . To top it all off we came second in the fundraising competition so we are all looking forward to a pizza lunch.

Room 30

The children in Room 30 loved doing a ‘deep dive’ into Julia Donaldson’s books. We loved doing door displays for The Gruffalo as well as The Smeds & the Smoos. It was also great to see the children dressed as their favourite book character. Thank you to the parents who supported this fun event and well done for the great fundraising efforts.

Room 2

For Book Week room 2 focussed on books on Elmer the Patchwork Elephant written by David McKee. Elmer talks about how “Everyone is unique and we should embrace our differences”, furthermore the books promote inclusivity and friendship. Thanks very much parents for supporting your child in their choice of character, they all looked amazing - we even had an ‘Elmer’.

Room 13

For Book Week in Room 13, our class text was Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae. The children did some lovely giraffe art for our door, and we learned about the author’s purpose for this text. The children came up with some lovely ideas, such as “Persevere” and “Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do.” We also had lots of fun participating in the daily reading challenges and filling out our bingo boards. It was so lovely to finish the week off seeing everyone’s book character costumes.

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