Heads up for Book Week, Mar 23-27

Plans so far:

• D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) time every day;

• Read for 2009 Seconds -- where everyone in the junior school simultaneously sits down and reads for 33 minutes 29 seconds;

• Book Fair in the canteen on the Wed / Thur / Fri, put on by Bookaburra Books;

• Mother Tongue Monday -- where students, teachers, and parents are invited to conduct mini storytelling/read-aloud sessions in languages other than English during morning break and lunch break -- in the library and other venues;

• Teacher Readers Tuesday -- where teachers swap classes for a special read-aloud session;

• Poem in Your Pocket Wednesday -- where everyone in school must have a poem in their pocket all day long and be prepared to recite it (without looking) by anyone;

• Non-Fiction Thursday -- where the focus is on non-fiction for the day;

• Dress-Up Friday -- where everyone comes to school dressed as a character from a book or story;

Special Guest visits:

• K1: Local illustrator Joshua Chiang will be doing live drawing on Monday, March 23rd;
• K2: Local publisher Wan Hai of Ethos Books will be telling a Chinese version of The Elves and the Shoemaker from a book which she is just publishing this month and talking to students about how books get published;
  
• Grade 1: Local author Shamini Flint will be presenting on her picture books re endangered animals on Friday, March 27th -- in 2 sessions (9:10 to 9:50, and 10:10 to 10:50);
• Grade 2: a session with some puppeteers is being arranged -- to tie in with the "Arts Alive" unit of inquiry;
• Grade 3: British author Grant S. Clark (resident in Singapore) will be talking about his recently published book, "Monkey Magic: The Curse of Mukada" (NB: book order forms will be going home next week);
• Grade 4: Local author Shamini Flint will be spending time with each of the Grade 4 classes discussing her books "The Seeds of Time" and "Ten";

The main things you need to be thinking about are a poem for the Wednesday and a costume for the Friday.

I know I have to come up with a new idea since Abeer in 2MGo created a "Go Dog Go" hat for our 100th Day celebrations. He did a much better job than I would have done!


For those who want some ideas, see this document:
Book Character Dress-up Suggestions

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