Read a Book for Māori Language Week

We have some new books in our library to celebrate Maori Language week - Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori.

Kei te Pēhea Koe is a beautifully illustrated book.  Each emotion has an illustration drawn in different colours.  The illustration for 'Kei te pukuriri au I feel angry,' has tones of reddish pink.

This picture book also has a very user-friendly pronunciation guide at the back.  A great book to practise saying how you feel in te reo.



Anthony Browne

Room 5's first go at Speed Bookin'


This was so much fun to watch!  We had a variety of books, one dating back to 1975!  Funny books to children's books.  I think after about the third time Room 5 found it easier to sell their book to their classmates.  I look forward to our next Speed Bookin' experience.

Speed Booking

Today in class we tried out speed booking. It is like speed dating with one exception, you are using books! I brought Wimpy Kid the movie Diary. We had loads of fun.  What we did was the people with the books sat on the outside of the table and the people without books on the inside. We tried to convince them to read or buy the book. The best rating my book got was 5 elephants. That is the best you can get. By Isaac


Skulduggery Pleasant Books






Skulduggery Pleasant Dark Days

What a shock when I discovered there was a fourth book in this series.  I thought Derek Landy’s ‘Skulduggery Pleasant The Faceless Ones,’ was the last installment.  If you haven’t yet read book three I’ll try not to give too much away.  
Throughout the first third of the book Derek Landy interweaves the rescue of Skulduggery Pleasant while also introducing us to a group of villains calling themselves the ‘Revengers Club.‘  Most of these members we’ve met in previous Skulduggery books, like Dusk and Sanguine.  
These characters drive the action, some of the twists and turns and plot in book four.  Put into the mix is Scarab, who has escaped from prison and wants revenge for a crime he didn’t commit.  It’s no surprise the group have individual motives for seeking revenge upon young Valkyrie Cain.
A Soul Catcher goes missing from the Necromancer temple.  It’s as horrid as it sounds.  The idea of the remnant is simply ghastly, and then there’s the Midnight Museum Zombie fight!
Reading book four is like devouring a bowl of spaghetti at a hectic pace.  Although, each spaghetti strand you untangle leads you closer to the twists and turns that await!  I am eagerly awaiting book five.