Daily Archives: June 17, 2014

This book has been short listed for the CBCA's Picture Book of the Year Award for 2014.  What are the similarities and differences between Shaun's and Mark Wilson's illustrating styles? View Shaun talking about the origin and ideas for this book here. He also shows us how he develops a simple drawing from a quick sketch in his notebook.

What seven word rule would you make up with a friend or sibling?  Make sure it begins with NEVER or ALWAYS.  Try illustrating the rule in Shaun's style, remembering that only the children are human.

After researching facts about the Solar System and the history of space exploration Stage 3 classes have been devising questions and answers to make a quiz using the template from Stu's Quiz Boxes.  Who will be the champion team in each class? In case we are not in the library for some classes perhaps this link will help us have a quiz about space.