2023 CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood description
Caulfield Junior College Grade 1 Little Librarians made special activities after reading their top 2 books of choice, Spiro and The Wobbly Bike. They made DIY spiders and drew their fave two-wheel bikes. It was lots of fun! 😊🚴♀️🕷
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The Wobbly Bike was such a funny story and well-loved by our team. Here is an artwork inspired by this great story!
The Stage 2 students that judged Spiro to be the best had a great time making collages from materials found in the playground. It was messy but fun. Some students created dioramas and others drew pictures of Spiro from scenes in the book.
We loved sharing Everything You Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy and were inspired to create our own artwork.
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When we read Spiro, we learnt about perseverance and then used our new-found skill to complete our artwork.
After reading Briony Stewart’s ‘Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Tooth Fairy (and Some Things You Didn’t)’ Ardtornish PS Receptions made tooth fairy boxes. The students are creating 1 item for each of the 2025 CBCA Early Childhood books and adding it to their Early Childhood treasure boxes.
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3 reception classes at Ardtornish PS have been Shadow Judgers for the 2025 CBCA Early Childhood category. They created tooth beetle drawings to add to their collection of 6 items to go in their Early Childhood treasure boxes.
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After reading, One Little Dung Beetle, we went on a nature walk in our school yard to find interesting natural objects that we could use to create our nature-inspired clay beetles. We used the end pages of the book to look carefully at the shape and body parts of the beetles. In a group, we
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We used a red balloon to demonstrate letting your worries go.
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Lenny, Christina, Grace & Noah created the red balloon from Don’t Worry Felix using paper mache.
Rose, Hailey, Tahlia & Isla created an interactive map using PowerPoint to retrace the steps of Jessie & Mr Miller. They also made this map of their journey.
Jamie, Kavith, Christian and Malek created this Lego structure of Jessie & Mr Millers voyage on the ferry from Fort Macquarie.
