At St Emilie’s, we love books and reading is one of our favourite things to do. It is very important that we know how to care for books so they can last for a long, long time and be able to delight many, many children. Click on the link below and see if you know some of the ways we can care for books!
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Connect Kids to Reading – Reading to Connect
Connect to Reading: Read to Connect
The Book Week Theme for 2014 is all about CONNECTING to reading …
Below are some ideas to help your children get into the spirit of reading at home!
Perhaps once the challenges are completed you might be able to buy a new book for your child’s bedroom reading shelf – or visit the library to borrow a couple of new books!
Challenge One: Connect with your Family
Read a book to a family member, parent, grandparent, sibling, aunt or uncle or perhaps even your pet!
Challenge Two: Connect to Reading and CREATE
Cooking or crafting is a great way to engage with some purposeful reading. Choose a recipe book from home or the library and cook a recipe from this book or choose a craft book, read and follow the instructions and CREATE!
Challenge Three: Connect from Afar
Read a book to someone you know living interstate or overseas. You might like to use Skype or a phone or you may like to record yourself reading a book and email it to someone ( with parent permission).
Challenge Four: Connect with an Author or Illustrator
Look up one of your favourite authors or illustrators online. Leave a message on their webpage, blog, Facebook page (with parental guidance) or Instagram account (with parental guidance) telling them why you love their work.
Challenge Five: Connect with a Text
Read a text you don’t normally read – perhaps a graphic novel, a newspaper, a magazine, comic strip, instruction manual for your microwave…anything at all! Record here the type of text you connected with.
Challenge Six: Connect with History
Read a historical fiction book or a non-fiction book about a particular time in history which you are interested in.
Challenge Seven: Connect with Technology
Read a text (for example a newspaper, magazine, blog entry or book) using a Kindle, iPad, computer or other device. Many libraries allow you to borrow e-books.
Challenge Eight: Connect with Friends
Lend a book you love to a friend and tell them why you enjoyed this book.
Challenge Nine: Connect with Others
Donate a book (a second hand one you no longer want, or a new one) to a charity or school or library.
Book Week 2014 – Connect to Reading
Book Week Assembly 2014
- Week 5, Friday 22nd August 8.45am in school hall.
- The CBCA Book Awards shortlists for 2014 have been announced and these are now on the shelf in our library – see below.
- Children to dress up as their favourite book character
- St Emilie’s Dance Troupe will perform for us at the assembly before leaving for the Performing Arts Festival.
Caring for our School Library Books
Dear Parents
As you will be aware, we have really invested much time and money into refurbishing our school library and stocking shelves – it is now a place where we can proudly enjoy reading and sharing the beautifully refurbished space together.
The problem we have at the moment is the number of books that are arriving back from homes – torn, scribbled over, water damaged, with broken spines or lost.
While we educate children here at school about how to care for their library book, parents need to do the same.
Please ensure that library books are treated carefully and stored in the library bag when not being read; stored out of the reach of little ones; not read when food or drink is close by and that they are returned by THE DUE DATE.
Teaching our children about respecting our own property and the property of others is an important life skill – the more we work together the better! Please spend some time reflecting upon the routines you have in your home around caring for St Emilie’s library books (and all books in fact!) and ensure that you are doing your part in making sure our books are cared for.
Please note that damaged or lost books will incur a fine, which we will expect to be honoured.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support. The more we care for our library and our library books the more we will all benefit!
Regards from Tania and the Library Staff
Library books Rock!
Can you help us to cover some library books?
We still have some new Key-links books that need covering before students can start to start to use them.
If you can assist by taking some books and book covering at home and dropping back in ASAP, please leave your name and contact number with the Office on 92569696 and we will arrange to send home books, materials and instructions.
Many thanks
Janine Curilli
Library Coordinator 
Scholastic Competition
Library News Week 2 Term 2 2014
Above: Shelley Richards , a friend of Mrs Curulli’s and a retired librarian, kindly volunteers at St Emilie’s on Mondays – here she is after covering some new books from our Literacy Pro collection!
We recently received the latest release for our new reading resource called Literacy Pro 2014 last Thursday and we are happy to announce that we have 50 more new books on the shelves ready for children to borrow!
Shelley Richards and Jo Roberto assist me in the library each Monday afternoon with shelving, accessioning and the covering of books – thank you so much ladies , your help is invaluable.
PARENT HELP NEEDED
We still have some new Keylinks books that need covering before students can start to start to use them. If you can assist by taking some books and book covering home and dropping back in ASAP, please leave your name and contact number with the Office and we will arrange to send home books and materials.
Many thanks
Janine Curilli