Time to Talk
Our Book Club was lucky to have a session with a local literary expert, Sarah Mayor Cox to discuss all the Shortlisted Picture Books. We had a great laugh about the puns and idioms which filled the book ‘Timeless’.
Picture Book
2023 CBCA Picture Book of the Year description
If I was …
We were inspired to use our imagination to write what we would do if anything was possible!
THAT THING HAS SOMETHING!
We were inspired by this book to use our computers to create our own creatures with human features!
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Timeless – Tahlia and Lyla yr 5
Lyla and Tahlia in year 5 have filmed a stunning response to the book ‘Timeless’, based on the theme they identified in the book – Time Flies.
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That Bird Has Arms – Lyla yr 5
Lyla in year 5 has created this fabulous poster by putting a clever spin on the book ‘That Bird Has Arms’.
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Timeless Painting
After reading Timeless by Kelly Canby, we had a discussion, did a meditation and started to paint our creative responses. We played nature sounds as we thought about time. Are we wasting time? How could we use our time to do more things that make us happy? Where does our time go?
If I were an animal
Inspired by Felix’s shadow of a wolf and Peter’s use of the pj top to identify Felix, we drew our own animals and ‘tells’
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Paper Flower making with the Paper-flower Girl
Even though “Every Night at Midnight” got our vote, we wanted to experiment with making some paper flowers. We gathered a selection of different papers and were given the freedom to choose which ones we wanted for our paper flowers. Some people chose two types of paper, others chose four or five. We cut circles
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Every night at midnight response using poetry
This (Haiku) poem was inspired by “Every night at Midnight”. CJ believes it shows her insight into the key ideas in the picture book.
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That Bird Has Arms Digital Responses Using Canva and AI
Our Year 6 students really enjoyed That Bird Has Arms and produced wonderful examples of birds with human limbs or clothing or accesories, using Canva’s AI feature.
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Every Night At Midnight Diorama – Clara yr 4
Clara in year 4 created this wonderful diorama as a creative response to the book ‘Every Night At Midnight’.
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Bowerbird Blues poster – Ines yr 5
Ines in year 5 created this stunning poster in response to the book Bowerbird Blues.
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