Our Young Author group at Dana Street Primary paired up to respond to a text in our category. Nobody liked the bird at the start then he saved Marvin. We liked the Tweeter handle names and created our own for the poster. The illustrations of the birds were really realistic. – Max and Kenny
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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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Year 5 students critically analyse the book “That Bird Has Arms” writing likes, dislikes, questions and opinions about the book.
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Our Shadow judges loved the illustrations and humour that flowed through this story. They decided to create a poem about Roy and his fabulous arms!
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Our junior book club was thrilled with the modern and humorous tone of the book, That Bird has Arms. For their creative response, the girls were eager to explore the theme of ’embracing individuality.’ Inspired by the book’s frequent use of bird tweets, they decided to create an identity based tweeting activity. All year 5
Our book club really enjoyed That Bird Has Arms! by Jol & Kate Temple. Some of our members shared how it reminded them of being bullied due to their autism or shyness. Our creative response consisted of chicken crafts and images of chicken with arms. Students and staff chose the chicken that spoke to their
That Bird has Arms, Year 6, East Marden Primary School This year, Year 6 students have taken part in an exciting Shadow Judging project. We selected the 2024 Picture Book of the Year category from the six shortlisted books for the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards. After reading all six shortlisted books, each student
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Our year 6 class read all of the book titles listed and each student chose a book they felt best connected with them. Their creative responses displayed a variety of skills and students were highly engaged in the process.
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The year 5 group at Emmaus worked as a group to create this fabulous diorama series honouring all of the shortlisted books in the Picture Book of the Year category. On the top of each box, they wrote what they felt was the main message in each book.
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In my response, I wanted to create a bird who was a side character. I wanted to make it bright so that it didn’t just fall into the background like some of the tweets in the book. The photos I created showed what the bird had been doing. Willow I tried to remake the front
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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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After reading all the books in the Picture Book category, students chose their favourite to write a mini review.
