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.

You may like to;

• 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

How will you make Book Week fun for your class? We would love it if you joined the conversation and left a comment below.