Sunday, February 7, 2016

Kung Hei Fat Choy!


Happy New Year.
Kung hei fat choy!
Chinese New Year is the most important of the Chinese holidays and is a time of feasting with the family, celebration, fireworks and gift-giving. It is a 15-day holiday, beginning on the first day of a new moon and ending with the full moon on the day of the Lantern Festival.
 
Year of the Monkey activities for kids
  
On 8th February 2016 we welcome in a new Chinese New Year, the Year of the Monkey!

Here is an art activity to show you how to draw your own monkey.

 Learn to draw a monkey
 You can find out more about China in section 915.1 of the library.

Mrs Henshaw




Wednesday, February 3, 2016

German Week


This week we have been very lucky to have the opportunity to learn more about Germany.  Our two German trainee teachers, Mr Machulik and Miss Heike, have brought a little bit of their home country to our school.
If you are interested you can find out more about Germany from books in the library.  Look in the geography section 914.3 to find out more.
Did you know that Cornelia Funke is a German author who is as popular in Germany as J K Rowling is in the UK.  We have a copy of one of her books, Dragon Rider, in the library.  Can you find it?




Thursday, January 28, 2016

It's just a book....or is it?

What can a book do?
A book isn't just made of words, it's filled with
places to visit and people to meet where you
can travel to far away countries without ever
leaving your chair.
Your library is filled with magic, adventure
 and far away lands.
You can find magic wherever you look.
Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Here is a little video about a book.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

A new year in the library - 2016

It's the start of a brand new year in Howes library.  I am hoping that this year will be the beginning of something new for the library.  I have been disappointed during the last year about the number of books which go missing from the library.  I love that everyone enjoys reading the library books.  To make it easier this year to keep track of all our lovely books I hope to get everybody using the online checking in and out system.  It is really easy to do, instructions  will be found above the computer in the library.
I hope to have the system up and running to use after half term in February so watch this space for further details.
In the meantime.....please..... can you return any books you find in school that should be in the library (we used to have 26 Horrid Henry books!) so that we can all make a fresh start and all enjoy the library books together. There are some great reads in there.

Thank you,
Mrs Henshaw