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April
25 April 2020 - Story Box Library ANZAC month
Watch well known Australians read beautiful ANZAC stories online with your children, including stories about the sacrifice and contribution that Indigenous people have made to Australia's war efforts. Click the Story Box Library videos with your library membership card to watch The Happiness Box, Alfred's War, ANZAC Ted, and other ANZAC stories.
May
All month - Scribblers Festival
Connecting through Creativity
To explore how creativity can play a part in staying connected, Scribblers Festival and CBH Group are joining forces to launch a new visual storytelling competition: Connecting Through Creativity.
Your challenge: Using a method of visual storytelling that inspires you, explore the topic of connectivity during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Visual storytelling method examples include: 2D Arts (drawing, illustration, painting, collage, photography, comic etc.); Video (video diary, performance, stop motion, interview, short film, etc.); and 3D Arts (ephemeral art, land art, sculpture, pop-up book, etc.).
There are two age categories: 1. Primary (any age attending Years 1-6) 2. Secondary (any age attending Years 7-12). Entries close 26 June 2020.
For more details and to find out how to enter, click here.
27 May 11am - National Simultaneous Storytime
Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas
National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Now in its 20th successful year, it is a colourful, vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book that explores age-appropriate themes, and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Foundation to Year 6. For more details, go to the event poster.
Get ready for this years National Simultaneous Storytime by getting your children to do this fun, online jigsaw puzzle. See how quickly you can all finish it.
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