Session Five   - Friday 14th March 2014
 Students who have returned Summer Challenge passports and submitted  photos on the library windows for  the Holiday Competition will go in a draw and be drawn out next week at Assembly for the book voucher prizes.
Kids Lit Quiz
We are beginning to prepare for the Kids Lit Quiz. There will be two this year - The year 7/8's received a notice about this last week. The notice is available in the news centre of the school website. The Year 5/6 quiz will be held at school and we will invite Hoon Hay school to enter as well.

What did we talk about today?

Author Presentation : 

Amber and Maddison are working towards achieving their Bronze Lit Club badge and one of the requirements  is to present an author , which they did today .. Well done ladies on your presentation of L.M.Montgomery. Many Thanks

L.M. Montgomery ( Lucy Maud Montgomery) 

(Anne of Green Gables)

Key Facts :

Genre: Childrens Fiction

Born in 1874 in Prince Edward Island Canada (Died 1942)

Anne Green Gables was her first book (published in 1908)

Most widely known for her book , Anne of Green Gables and the following Anne books.

She has written many books but well known for the 8 books featuring the orphan Anne Shirley from Prince Edward Island.

Anne of Green Gables still a very popular childrens fiction choice throughout the world especially in Japan.

The setting for the Anne Books is Prince Edward Island in Canada

L.M. Montgomery never lived on Prince Edward Island again after her marriage in 1911. Yet, she immortalized this tiny province through her wonderful descriptions of life, nature, community, and people on Prince Edward Island. All but one of her 20 books are set on Prince Edward Island. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people, directly or indirectly influenced by the way of life she depicted in her writing, come to Prince Edward Island to see the place she loved so much..

This Week's Book is...

The 1999 Newbury Award Winner...

Holes

by Louis Sachar

Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake." Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.

The trouble started when Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated by basketball great Clyde "Sweetfeet" Livingston to a celebrity auction. In court, the judge doesn't believe Stanley's claim that the shoes fell from the sky onto his head. And yet, that's exactly what happened. Oddly, though, Stanley doesn't blame the judge for falsely convicting him. Instead, he blames the whole misadventure on his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." Thanks to this benighted distant relative, the Yelnats family had been cursed for generations. For Stanley, his current troubles are just a natural part of being a Yelnats.

At Camp Green Lake, the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize that there is  more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake.. The boys are digging holes because the treacherous warden is searching for something, and before long Stanley begins his own search—for the truth.

Fate conspires to resolve it all—the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West.. The great wheel of justice has ground slowly for generations, but now it is about to reveal its verdict.  

This ibook that demonstrates  true friendship and not judge others by their looks - or their unfortunate mistakes in life.This book has  a personality of its own and humour.

ENJOY!!!

In the story Holes by Louis Sachar , what do you observe about the main characters surname??

STANLEY YELNATS

Lois Sachar,is also the author  of the Wayside School series, Sachar , knows how to make kids laugh. And there are laughs galore in this popular book, series. Wayside School was supposed to be 30 classrooms, one story high; but by mistake it was built straight up 30 stories. It is about teachers who turn students into apples and kids who have extraordinary imaginations.... An easy read and so funny ......

The Sideways Stories From Wayside School is a popular series of 3 books by Louis Sachar. Sideways Stories From ,Wayside School is Falling Down, and Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

    

Available from the School Library .

Enjoying reading your responses to the quiz question  .....

"If you were an author what would your Pseudonym be?.....

Before next weeks Lit Club , consider confirming what your pseudonym would be and  share it with us on the blog???