esmart libraries

A very informative page on safety and privacy in libraries: http://www.esmartlibraries.org.au/Pages/default.aspx

Remember folks- it costs nothing to register your library with eSmart, so why not do it? :)

Winnie The Pooh read by A.A. Milne (about 5 minutes)

no playing favourites here

A good article on why teachers everywhere must never, ever, have a 'favourite' student: http://bit.ly/VQ6Vxf

I personally do not believe in 'favourite' students, as it leads to the 'favourite' being a spoiled brat and some other poor student being singled out for trouble.

Don't you also think that favouritism is unfair?

Too Many Elephants in this House by Ursula Dubosarsky

Margie Anderson (OAM) and Jane Garner (OA), 2 of the wonderful teachers at Victoria University's Diploma of Library Studies has an idea that we should design a Little Free Library for Library Studies students and staff; when she discussed the possibility of such a thing on the Facebook VU Library studies 2014 page, a few students offered suggestions...

L*** O* Libstudies- Not a carpenter, but got a couple of books to donate :)
Jane Garner- That's a start!
S*** Dewey- We might need to go on a class trip to savers and see if we can find something!
S***** Librejo- The 'free' section on gumtree is a good place to look. I got a free roll top desk off of there; http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/caulfield/other-furniture/2x-bookcase-cabinet/1053923576
Jane Garner- That is a bit fabulous S***** Librejo. Does anyone have a truck????
C****** W*****- I might be able to come up with something :) what do you think of some old school lockers that we can modify????
Jane Garner- That would be fantastic!!! We could practice categorising books to go in different lockers according to topic!

We could be creative you know folks... old cabinets, old chest chairs, even old fridges or microwaves just to be uber-improvising!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Daryl Somers

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday Daryl Somers,

Happy Birthday to you!


A good present for you,

And a present for us too,

Is if Hey Hey is back on our screens,

It'll make us happy!


Repeat 1st chorus.

Barnyard cake

Ingredients:
2 packets buttercake mix or make 2 buttercakes
2 or more quantities Vienna cream
Green and blue food colouring
Cocoa powder
Red nail polish
farmyard toys
tinfoil
bits of hard cardboard
bullets

Make cakes according to directions on packet (or make 2 homemade buttercakes according to a recipe), pour into a large baking tray or 2 small square baking trays for 30-35 minutes for the small pans and 50 minutes for the larger pan or until cakes are cooked through when tested with a skewer, at 180oC.

Colour two thirds of the vienna cream with green food colouring; ice the cakes with this to represent grass. Tint half of the remaining cream brown with cocoa; make a mud puddle with this and line with chocolate bullets. Tint the other half blue; use this icing to make a fresh water puddle.

Using hard cardboard, make a farm stable and paint with red nail polish and place at one corner of the cake. Place farm animals on the finished cake; a pig would go well in the mud puddle, some ducks would go well in the freshwater lake, and so forth.

Enjoy your cake.

This recipe is just a rough guide only!