It was all go last week for World Book Day in SMGS! With trips to the library, chats with publishers, bookmark design sessions and lots more, everyone celebrated reading for pleasure with gusto. Inspired by last year's success, every class turned their room door into a work of bookish art once more. See how many favourites you can recognise and check out Room 12's nod to their very own book, Green Giraffes and Pink Elephants!
We had a ball(oon) in Baby Book Club today reading Mick Inkpen's The Blue Balloon. There was suspense and emotions aplenty while we feared the eponymous balloon might pop when the characters squeezed and squashed and crushed it. There was wonder and delight when the heroes took off and landed in foreign lands.
And then there was laughter when we took out our own balloons and made all sorts of ridiculous noises with them, emptied them out in our faces, punched them, kicked them, shook them and played conkers with them. It was a brilliant moment of experimentation and play which hopefully continued later on at home...
As always, here are the links to the songs and videos!
I Love
Balloons! The Raytones! Sing-along video!
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Jeff Koons talking about 'Balloon Dog (Orange)'
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50K balloons being released over Brazil to mark end of 2018
What a bookish week it's been! Between Baby Book Club and class visits in Clondalkin Library it was all about the books!
With the babas, we read Stephanie Blake's cheeky Poo Bum and delighted in saying "poo poo" like our bold bunny hero. We then got on to the business of making our very own books, using pictures from magazines and old printouts.
Some of the kids chose to include images of things liked (rockets and diggers featured a lot) while others went looking for themselves and their relatives in the pile of pictures on offer.
Some of them even added some writing and illustrations of their own, showing daddy at work and baby playing and… mammy chatting. (Mammy disagreed).
As promised, here are the links!
The Library Song, a fun kids’ song from
New Zealand
Lil B Dub / The
Rapping Bookworm, a thing of silliness!
Martians Discover a
Book, classic Sesame Street madness
Bruno Mars Uptown Funk Parody:
Unread Book (you’ll never look at your librarian in the same way!)
The Mount Desert Island
High School version of Meghan Trainor's "All About The Bass/Books"
