An awesome achievement!

Great work by the three Lit Quiz teams. We came in 2nd and 3rd in the 2010 Lit Quiz held last night. The costumes were great - thanks so much to Shelley for co-ordinating the costume-making. You guys looked so awesome! This year the questions were a little more challenging which I think shows even more how well Rapaura did. Way to go.

Reading in the library

The Rapaura School library: this is what it is all about. :-)

Craig Smith and The Wonkey Donkey :-)

On Tuesday Rapaura School was treated to a fabulous performance by Craig Smith writer/singer of The Wonkey Donkey. The Wonkey Donkey is a hugely popular book at our library and all over New Zealand. Not only did Craig entertain us with his great songs he also gave a lot of his time to our Lit Quiz kids showing them the proofs of his next book, Willbee. We can't wait until it comes out! We hope Craig can come see us again at Rapaura and wish him the best of luck in this year's New Zealand Post Book Children's Awards for which The Wonkey Donkey is nominated.

Long time no post!

It has been soooo long since I have posted on this blog. I have decided that busyness is no excuse for not blogging so here's a promise: every week I am going to post something on here - a book review, something fun, a photo, etc. We have been reading lots of great things in the library so I won't have problems coming up with something to say every week. The most exciting thing happening right now though is the Country Harvest Fair. It's on tomorrow and I can't wait! See you there :-)

You need to read (and listen) to the whole thing!

Talia's Book Review No. 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Owning a Pet Bird, by David and Penny Glover

My favourite pages of this book are called "New Skills", "Through the Year", "Breeding Birds" and "Watching Birds". The reason I like these pages is because they tell you lots of information about how to look after your birds, how you can teach them to do lots of really interesting things. This book also teaches you how to look after your birds like what food they need and how they need water. Birds are my favourite animal and I would love my parents to give me one for my birthday which is on the 24 of April. I do have my own baby chickens if that counts as a bird but I would rather have a pair of lovebirds. I rate this non-fiction book as a 10 out of 10 and the reason I rate it so highly is because I read it over and over again in less than a week.