Bowerbird Blues Diorama – Chanelle yr 4
Chanelle has created a fantastic diorama in response to the book Bowerbird Blues. She has included a list of things for you to find … can you find them all?
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Picture Book
2023 CBCA Picture Book of the Year description
Every Night At Midnight & Bowerbird Blues Diorama – Matea yr 5
Matea has combine 2 books in this gorgeous diorama, Every Night At Midnight and Bowerbird Blues.
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That Bird Has Arms!
Our Year 3 and 4 students have been exploring the illustrations in ‘That Bird has Arms!’ by Kate and Jol Temple. We loved having fun creating our own birds with arms using recycled magazines, photocopies of birds and donated scrapbooking card. They all agree this book gave the biggest laughs, as well as lots of
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Grace and Mr Milligan
Year 1 and 2 students (while not shadow judging) were practicing exploring the themes and illustrations in ‘Grace and Mr Milligan’. We loved making our own picnic to cheer up a friend. Our work was made using plasticine for the fruit, watercolour picnic rugs, and paperclay cream (Zart inspired book week activity).
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Scar Town
Our Year 5 and 6 students created their own Scar Town drawings of the house appearing out of the lake. While not participating in Shadow Judging we loved seeing what the Year 3 & 4 shadow judges chose as the winner – and making our own creative response.
Duck and Bear
Year 1 and 2 creative response to Bear and Duck, inspired by Zart Book Week activities.
Diorama
We loved this book and created a simple diorama for it, using a box, a plastic horse and paper.
Book Readings
Staff volunteered to do book Readings for each of the notables which were then broadcast to students during Homeroom in the mornings. Based on their interpretations, students completed a google form and weighed in on the vote.
Mini Book Reviews
After reading all the books in the Picture Book category, students chose their favourite to write a mini review.
It’s All About the Blues
We used all blue items to create art work in response to ‘Bowerbird Blues’. We worked as a group to build a nest. It was quite a challenge!
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Every Night at Midnight I would…
Our Book Club had a rigorous discussion about this story, which was one of our favourites!We were inspired by the title and main character to imagine what we would do if we could do anything at midnight!
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Paper Folding
Our Book Club listened to the story and discussed the interesting language and incredible illustrations. We re-listened top the tale as we explored our cutting and folding skills to create paper flowers.