A couple of great sites..

Just come across these two 0 they both look very useful..

LoudLit is a site that has a great range of oral texts. They are all in the public domain and so are free to download. Texts include some Shakespeare sonnets, Emperor's new clothes ...

and ..

I love this typing game - its sooooo addictive already - I'm getting worse though!!!
Words

Have a play....

NZ Writers and Readers Week

You might like out check out the information on this site NZ Writers and Readers Week

and get your classes involved........

We'll look at running some competitions in the library.

Ciao.

Awesome Site

This site is a great find - Teacher Book Wizard - take a few moments to have a look at it.

The main idea is that you can get a list of texts on a set topic. It is run by Scholastic (USA) and is a similar thing to our journal search....


I know that there are probably dozens, hundreds, squillions of these sites around but ...you know me!!!

Hello 2008....

Welcome back all of you - Happy New Year!

If you haven't picked up your stationery pack from the office do so!!! Goody bags for all!!!.

I'll be keeping this blog and the library blog going throughout the year - a good way to keep updated is to subscribe to the rss feed - if you have no idea what I am talking about pop in and see me!!! Or check out the help link on blogger.com -

http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=12455


I have also changed the library blog address to make it easier for us and the kids to remember - it's now simply called TuakauCollegeLibraryBlog and you can get it to from the blogroll on the sidebar......



Don't forget to subscribe....

New Curriculum resources... Yippee!!

English Online have launched their new resource site to help us out with getting our teeth into the new curriculum - here's the link

Enhancing English - New Curriculum Resource

I suggest you bookmark it and read it every day over the holidays!!!!

10 best books of 2007...

Have you read any of them?

Check the link below and see what Amazon calls the best of the year..

Top 10 books 2007

Amazon's new e-book tool - Kindle...

Do you think that this will ever replace the feel of a book in our hands.....

Amazon - Kindle ...

What say you????