Welcome back!

2013 looks like it will be another busy year in the library at Hurstville South :-)

For us, every year is a "Year of Reading", so we will start borrowing Monday of Week Two.

Throughout the year we will look at literature, research skills and using technology to enhance our research and love of reading.

In Term 1, our focus for

• Kindy and Years 3 to 6 will be on great Australian authors.  I am hoping students will discover a new author and new favourite books! Year 3 to 6 will have the opportunity to research about an Australian author and share their information with their class- this will require them to use their developing research and technology skills.
• Years 1 & 2 will also be developing research and technology skills to support their learning in Science. In particular they will be looking at finding good information using books and the internet.

Just to let you know....

• our Term 4 Book Fair was very successful, we were able to spend over $1600 on books  for the school - so lots of lovely new books!
• we now have air-conditioning in the library - a welcome relief on hot days - no doubt the library will be even more popular at lunchtime!
• if you have book covering skills, or are happy to learn, you'd be most welcome - we have lots of new books to cover!!

Feel free to drop into the library if you have a question or time to help :-) - I am here Mondays to Thursday.
Hope to see you this year.
Keep on reading!
Mrs Blake