By Paula Fisher | Posted: Thursday July 21, 2022
Kaikorai Primary School are having a Book Week! This will take place from Monday 1st of August to Friday 5th of August.
Book Week:
This year our theme for our Book Week is an animal theme - 'Paws For Books.'
During the week, the children will be engaged in a range of fun activities that promote reading.
*Book Fair
During Book Week we will also be holding a Scholastic Book Fair. This is a wonderful opportunity for families to purchase books at reasonable prices, while also supporting our school. Every dollar spent at the Book Fair earns our school valuable points, which we can then use to purchase books for our new library. The Book Fair will be held in the Junior Learning Street and open at the following times:
Monday - Friday 8.30 - 9.00 am
Monday - Thursday 3.00 - 3.30 pm
*Literacy Evening
As part of Book Week, we will be holding a Literacy Evening on Tuesday the 2nd of August at 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm in our new hall. This is an opportunity for parents to come along and hear how 'Structured Literacy' is being implemented into our literacy programmes across the school.
*Whānau Literacy Morning
On Thursday the 4th of August at 9.10 am - 10.25 am we will be holding a Whānau Literacy Morning at school. Parents are encouraged to bring along a favourite book from their childhood to read to a small group of children in their child's class. Then stay to participate in some fun activities that are enriched with language from favourite books centred around our animal theme, 'Paws for Books.'
*Workshops with Swapna Haddow
We are very fortunate to have Swapna Haddow - an award winning children's author, coming to lead workshops for all of our students. These workshops will take place during the course of the day on Monday the 1st of August.
*Dress-Up Day
On Friday the 5th of August we will have a fun Dress-Up Day, based around our Book Week theme, 'Paws for Books.' All children are encouraged to dress-up as an animal that has paws. For example: cats, dogs, rabbits, mice, pandas, tigers, lions.