2023 CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood description
This group from Year 2 were intrigued by the questions in the book. They decided to create their questions based on their wonderings about whether you could teach other animals to do activities.
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This group from Year 2, loved the ribbon in Gymnastica Fantastica so decided to create their own colourful and sparkly version. They used many different materials from paper to sequins to pieces of material.
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This group from Year 2 wondered where Bear was swimming when the book ended so they created an underwater scene for him to swim in using collage, materials, sequins and shells.
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Ardtornish P S Foundation students created these pieces of art after listening to ‘Bear and Duck Are Friends’ by Sue DeGennaro. Room 20 students were part of 2024 CBCA Shadow Judging for Early Childhood.
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Ardtornish P S students enjoyed listening to the book, ‘Gymnastica Fantastica!’ by Briony Stewart and made their own gymnastic performance. They were part of 2024 CBCA Shadow Judging for Early Childhood.
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“I like the swirly queen drawing”, Shems. “I like the rainbow and I did the rainbow drawing on the paper”, Anika. “I like the people in the country of the The Concrete Garden”, Kaysen. “I like the picture in The Concrete Garden”, Thomas. “When the children jumped in the rainbow puddle, it looked really fun”,
Our group had a picnic afternoon tea in the garden while we read ‘The Concrete Garden’ and talked about how the author Bob Graham felt the message was of ‘hope’. We loved the details of the children’s chalk drawings in the book and our whole family joined in drawing our own pictures on the driveway.
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Our group had fun discussing how clever animals are and what we feel we are good at. We looked at Jan Godwin’s website and read how she changed the wording of the last page from ‘You are excellent at something too’ to ‘You can do wonderful things, too. It’s true.’ The double page near the
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Our group enjoyed the movement and rhyming words in ‘Gymnastica Fantastica’ and it made us want to join in and do gymnastics too. We made our own gymnastic rhythm sticks and had fun developing routines to music.
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Our little group of 4 year olds and a six year old read the book and spoke about encouraging and supporting friends to join you in activities you find fun. One example was going to a climbing wall with a cousin who had never done that before and how it was fun to help him
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Our little group loved enacting this story during the re telling. We took turns using a soft duck and our paper puppets to do the actions and we all joined in with singing the words and making the animal noises. It was great fun.
Our group identified with how hard it is when you lose a good friend and we felt sorry for Mr Milligan but happy he had a good friend Grace to help him. We also liked the baby goat at the end of the book to show something that might help Mr Milligan feel better. For
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