Learning and Innovation Centre News

Hello lovely Aspley families,

The past few weeks have been full of excitement from the extreme weather events to a loose lizard here in the library. Your children have enjoyed engaging lessons with me in the in between. I have gotten into my groove as the temporary librarian at Aspley State School.

Here is what we have been up to:

Year 1s: We read “CHIP” and discussed all the adjectives that the seagull named Chip uses to describe his favourite types of chips.

Year 2s: We read “The Red Feather” and discussed the wonderful verbs found throughout this interesting book.

Year 3s and 5s: We read “Hey Little Ant” and had a rich discussion about morality and ethics. I used this book to talk about persuasive styles of writing as the ant needs to convince the boy not to step on him.

Year 4s: We read “Oh the Places You’ll Go” which is a Dr. Seuss classic. We then started to dive into the 12 different sentence styles according to Writer’s Toolbox. We discussed the simple sentence and the very short sentence.

Year 6s: My lessons with the Year 6s were my absolute favourite this week. I am a middle school teacher after all. We read “Little People, Big Dreams: the story of Anne Frank” and then we got to dive into some information about The Holocaust and World War 2. I used Anne Frank’s story to build a persuasive text about how I think she is the most famous child to come out of World War 2. The Year 6s were very engaged and they had a lot of insightful questions, we participated in dynamic discussions together.

Lunch Time

The Learning and Innovation Centre is open during second break (1:40-2:00) every day. All children from year 1-6 can come into the LIC to silent read and take out books. On Fridays they are also welcome to play quiet board games. Our year 6 student leaders come in to support the other children and to help reshelve books.

Borrowing News

Your child has weekly borrowing time at the LIC. (Please see timetable below). Their classroom teacher will bring them each week to borrow but they MUST have a library bag. 

How many books can my child/children borrow?

• Prep – 2 books
• Years 1-6 – 4 books

Outstanding Fees

If you have any outstanding fees for lost books from last year, can you please pay these as soon as possible! Our rule here in the L&IC is that children with overdue books are unable to borrow until they have returned or paid for said books. Thank you very much for your cooperation. 

Responsible Reader Awards

Congratulations to these classes over the last two weeks who have NO overdue books. You have worked as a team to support each other.

Thank you 

Miss Asha Stander