Bear Essentials – April School Holiday Programme

Come along and join the fun at Timaru, Temuka and Geraldine Libraries
Competitions
• Bear hunt
• Bear wordfind
• Decorate a bear
• Name the bear

Bear craft: 10:30 – 11:30am
Wednesday 18th April All equipment supplied

Teddy Bears’ Picnic & Prizegiving
2:30pm Friday 20th April 2012

Bring your favourite bear

• Beary yummy treats
• Bear stories
• Spot prizes
• Teddy bear parade

The hungry caterpillar

Ollie Burton, aged two, is keeping an eye on our very hungry caterpillar. It ate the top halves of two swan plants then over the weekend it transformed to a beautiful green chrysalis. Come and have a look!

Children's Day

Batman and Spiderman (a.k.a.Trey Cosgrave and Lachlan Moore) took a break from their SuperHero duties to enjoy the noisy books at the Library Stand at Caroline Bay last Sunday.

Origami and stories from Japan

Yasuko Ohbayashi from our sister city Eniwa visited at the beginning of the holidays and spent the afternoon visiting our branch libraries at Temuka and Geraldine, and reading stories and teaching Origami at Timaru Library. Yasuko demonstrated traditional Japanese “apron theatre” with the story “The giant turnip” and read books that had been presented to Timaru Libraries by Eniwa Library. Everyone loved doing Origami especially the trick boat with disappearing mast! Thank you Yasuko!!!

More winners of the Ursula Moray Williams centenary year creative writing competition

Congratulations to the prizewinners:

Year 1-3
1st Holly Bamber, Timaru (Bluestone School) for 'Intruders on Zing Zang Island'
2nd Hope Lovely, (Waimataitai School) for ‘The magic tree'

Year 4-6
1st Aimee King (Waimataitai School) for 'Steve the explorer and the underwater monkeys'
2nd Esther Shaw, Geraldine (Home educated) for 'Happiness is more important than what you look like'

Year 7-8
1st Mafoa Siale, Timaru (Bluestone School) for ‘Winter’
2nd James MacKenzie, Timaru (Bluestone School) for ‘The storm’

Year 9-10
1st Aaron Braczek, Geraldine (Geraldine High School) for 'Never trust a gypsy'

Year11-13
1st Susanna Blogg, Geraldine (Home educated) for 'Close encounter with the third kind'
2nd Rebekah Blogg, Geraldine (Home educated) for ‘Dancing Breeze'

Special thanks to Colin Davison, the Friends of the Library and Aoraki South Canterbury Reading Association for their support.

Winner of the Ursula Moray Williams Cup 2011

Congratulations to Mafoa Siale, Winner of the Ursula Moray Williams Cup for Children’s Writing!!!! Mafoa, from Bluestone School, was also winner of the Year 7-8 category for her story "Winter". UK judge Colin Davison awarded the prize to Mafoa's story "for its wonderful use of language, that reminded me of the power of folk legends".

Many thanks to Colin Davison, The Friends of the Library and Aoraki Reading Association South Canterbury for their support for this competition.



Origami and stories

Yasuko Ohbayashi from Eniwa, our Sister City in Japan, will be visiting the Children’s Library in Timaru on Thursday
15 December 2011 from 3:30 – 5pm.
Come along and join the fun!