Australia’s annual Book Week has arrived!
The Children’s Book Council of Australia promote Book Week each year, deciding on a theme and selecting the shortlisted books in different categories before they announce Book of the Year. Our school loves Book Week and holds an annual Book Week Parade for all grades. We have two assemblies, an early childhood and a primary one. All the children have a chance to dress up as a favourite book character. Classes go up on stage and each child introduces their character and then walks down our ‘runway’. It takes a long time but students and teachers love it and the participation rate is really high. We enjoy celebrating our love of books and the characters that we get to know through our reading.
Our Parade was last week but the official Book Week is this week. This morning (Monday) we had an open morning called D.E.A.R (Drop Everything And Read) for parents and carers to come in and read with us. Our wonderful librarian is also running a Book Fair all week. Some of us save up for weeks to buy books at the Book Fair.
This year’s theme is ‘Australia! Story Country’. Mrs E has filled our class with a fresh supply of books, largely Australian stories and authors, and put a display together to get us in the spirit. Book Week is now underway. Happy reading!