On Saturday, Pat and Tom L took their friends Martin B and Marcus C to the Melbourne Writers Festival. They did WordPlay@ArtPlay . The boys went to an Illustrating workshop with one of our favourite illustrators Leigh Hobbs and a Writing workshop with Doug Macleod.
Marcus and I went to ArtPlay at Federation Square as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. We saw Leigh Hobbs and he taught us how to draw Old Tom and Mr Chicken.
We went to a Writing workshop and we had to make up our own character and give them a problem. We made a Captain Underpants book. The problem for Captain Underpants was that he had to defeat the big fat turkey.
Fans of the Boy vs Beastseries will be excited that the next four books in the series have been released. These books are the Battle of the Borders.
Over time the edges of the four lands (fire, rock, water and air) have mixed and they have created border-lands. The beasts from each world also mixed and this created a new kind of combination beast – the border-land beast. Meet the new beasts Kai has to battle…
This story of The Terrible Bang was inspired by The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky. Click on the bottom right-hand corner of the book to open the book and read the story.
I think that the E in 1E must stand for ENTHUSIASTIC! The students in1E are very enthusiastic borrowers at our LRC. Recently they have enjoyed sharing some of the things they have done after reading books they have borrowed.
Lucas R started it when he brought a photo of a science experiment he had done after borrowing one of our Science books. This inspired Marc R who did a Dissolving Experiment and brought his photo of some of the things he dissolved including some sugar, coffee and oil. Can you see what happened?
Lachlan B has been enjoying the Boy vs Beast books and website and he brought in three beasts he created on the Boy vs Beast website. He called them Toothy, Face and a Half and Armour Dragon. I don’t think I’d like to battle against Armour Dragon who has two heads!!
The Junior classes have enjoyed meeting Fearless! We have had lots of discussions about the names we give our pets. We are still wondering if Fearless will ever grow into his name…
You might like to try one of the online jigsaw puzzles about Fearless by clicking here
This week the Preps and Grade One and Two classes have really enjoyed listening to The Terrible Plopby Ursula Dubosarsky. The students loved joining in with the story and the Preps went home to warn their parents to “Watch out for the TERRIBLE PLOP!!
Click here to read the story online or listen to it being read to you…
Would you like to know how to draw the bear from The Terrible Plop? Watch the video below and Andrew Joyner, the illustrator will show you how…
For all of the students who have been asking me when the next Diary of a Wimpy Kid book is coming out…I can now answer your question!
The front cover and title of the next book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series was revealed on July 29th. The fifth book will called “The Ugly Truth” It will be released in the USA on November 9th. (I’m not sure yet when it comes out in Australia). The publishers will be printing 5 million copies of the book!!
Boy vs Beastis an exciting new fantasy series for younger readers. It is a battle of the worlds between the Beasts from Beastium and the Border Guards from Earth. There are four books in the series Aquatan, Tornados, Terradon and Infernix.
Listen to this Fotobabble to find out more about the series…
You can visit the Boy vs Beast websiteand read about the books, create your own beasts, enter the Battle Chamber and play the Battle of Beastium game
