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We were very excited to have the author Sarah Brennan visiting DUCKS on Thursday! We've been trying to know her books in the library before she came and had great fun listening to her panda story that was telling by herself! More of that, we were lucky enough to be offered a free gift from Sarah - a special designed 'Pin Yin' book mark, Which we believe is the best thing for the book worms to have. It has been a very meaningful kicking off for the coming Book Week 'Reading Olympics' next week. Hope to see you all with your parents and friends to share some lovely books in the library! (Please check on the 'Book Week' page to find out your visiting hour.)  Visit Sarah’s funny and fabulous website at www.sarah-brennan.com Sarah is running a poetry competition until March 23rd for children to write a poem about pandas. Visit her blog to find more and let's try our very best to win a free book from her! www.sarahbrennanblog.wordpress.com We talked about the two main kinds of books - Fiction and Nonfiction. Mr. Wiggle took us looked around the library and explained the difference between fiction books and nonfiction books to us very well. We also discussed how fiction books and nonfiction books are labelled differently. Fiction books are labeled by authors, while Nonfiction books are labeled by numbers(the Dewey Decimal System, which we will discuss more about it later). We then had another look at the online library database to find out how the information is showed in the search results, which is a little bit tricky. But we will get better on this, as Ms. Yvonne will show us again and give us some time to practise on her ICT lessons! 
We discussed the different ways on finding a book in the librray...the children have been thinking hard and gave out a few ideas, as like ask the librarian, look through the books or search on the computer... And we all agreed that 'search' is the most efficent way to find the book and we are quite happy with the database we are using now - http://dsclibrary.dulwich-shanghai.cn which is able to be accessed at anywhere!
We tried to search for a few books that we like and looked at the information that a search result brings us and managed to find these books on the shelves! Do you like the DUCKS library? Have you been enjoying your library time so far? What would you like to do in the library? What's your favourite bit of the library? What else you think we could make it happen in the library??
We've had some interesting discussions refer to those questions above this week and we've tried to make our own lesson plans! Almost everyone loved the idea that we are able to take books home...ALMOST?! Yes, almost - a few of us didn't enjoy choosing books because they find it hard to find a good book! Which is a very good point for us to discuss! Ha, hope we could solve this out next week! We continued our celebration of Christmas this week and we looked at some special pop-up books which are very special for this jolly festival season! Toddler, Nursery and Reception also enjoyed listening to 'Shhh!' written by Julie Sykes. Enjoy the holidays and we shall see everyone again in the new year!  Thanks to the elves who decorated the library for us, we are all excited about the most jolly season of the year! We sat by the gorgeous Christmas tree and listened to Christmas stories in the library. Here are some of the stories that we quite like: Pete and Polo's magical Christmas Mr. Christmas Wombat divine Harry and the dinosaurs make a Christmas wish     The children in nursery, Reception and Year 1 have been helping on choosing stories for Ms. Helen and Ms. Cookie to read to the class. And we took a look on spine labels again. The books in the library are labelled by the author's surname. As for Mr. Tony Ross that we talked about last week, his books are able to be found in the 'R' box of the Snake, while Ms. Emily Gravett's books can be found in the 'G' box.   We introduced Emily Gravett to Year 2 and continued on making our own little books. We managed to put spine labels on for our books!
 We enjoyed listening to the story 'Meerkat Mail' and were amazed by the illustrations of this book! Emily Gravett is definitely going to be one of our favourite authors and illustrators! Emily is one of those very talent ones who does their wonderful stories and amazing pictures all by themselves. She visited DUCKS in 2010 and has left some nice paintings to us. Where are the paintings now? Of course library is the best place for them to be! More of Emily's books are available from the library! To know more about Emily Gravett.          We introduced Tony Ross the famous illustrator and author and his little princess stories and other books to the children this week. We discussed the illustrations and tried to design the little princess in our own ways! Toddlers listened to the story 'I want my mum' on CD, and it was the first time we tried to colour in a picture in the library! They seem to be enjoyed playing with some colours! For nursery and reception we listened to 'I want my mum' and read one of the other little princess stories in their second lesson. The children loved the little princess and her song!  Here is an E-book available from the library to read online!   For Year 2 we read the book 'Misery Moo' which Tony Ross worked with author Jeanne Willis. We looked at the illustrations and discussed our favourite illustration of the story.
We also paired up to start on making our own picture books! Some of the children have decided to be the illustrators, some have decided to be the authors and some are going to do both the jobs themselves just like Tony Ross! |