Celebrating Book Week During Lockdown

The usual excitement that revolves around Book Week every year is somewhat mushed this year as it coincides with our time being in lockdown in NSW.

This year Book Weeks theme is Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds and is being celebrated from 23-27 August in schools.

Book Week is usually an annual event at schools celebrating books and Australian children authors and illustrators, that includes a book parade, storytelling and lots of fun activities. This year during remote learning, it just calls us teachers to be a little more creative.

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Read and complete activities related to the Book Week Books - How to Make a Bird by Matt Ottley & Meg McKinlay, Not cute by Philip Bunting, and Your Birthday Was the Best! By Felicita Sala & Maggie Hutchings, Ellie's Dragon by Bob Graham, Norton and the Bear by Gabriel Evans and The Unwilling Twin by Freya Blackwood
Have students take a shelfie - a photo of them standing in front of their bookshelf with their favourite book
Organise an author to visit via Zoom
Have teachers record themselves reading their favourite children’s picture book
Students could submit a photo of themselves dressed as their favourite book character or related to this years theme - alien, astronaut, dinosaur, Eygptian…
Take a photo of themselves reading in an unusual place such as under a table, in their cubby house
Guess the ‘masked reader’. Teachers to take a photo of them reading a book with a mask on
Each class could compete in a book challenge - which class can read the most books for the week? Keep a record to share
Create a portrait of the youngest member of their family and the oldest
Students can go on a book scavenger hunt such as this one by Scholastic
Create an emoji ‘Guess the Book Title’ game
Students create their own art piece related to Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds
Check out the CBCA Website for more resources and ideas