18 Monday, June 16, 2014

Liz Zelencich
Program Manager
See it on stage!
Let your mind run wild with songs, laughs
and fun when you join The Gruffalo on
stage at Her Majestys Theatre.
Shows are on Tuesday, July 15, at 11.30am
and 1.30pm. Call Majestix on 5333 5888
or drop in to 17 Lydiard Street South.
See it on stage!
Wombat Stew comes to Her Majestys
Theatre on Monday, June 30, at 11.30am
and 1.30pm.
Get your tickets at Majestix by calling
5333 5888 or drop in at 17 Lydiard Street
South.
Join us online at: http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/2291712/newspapers-in-education/
Axel Schefer
He is the best-selling, award-winning
illustrator of many of the worlds favourite
picture books. Born in Hamburg Germany,
Axel moved to England over 30 years
ago to study illustration. Alex is perhaps
best-known for his collaborations with Julia
Donaldson, including the modern classic
The Gruffalo, which has sold over ve
million copies worldwide.
See it on stage!
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Label the Gruffalo
Label the parts of the Gruffalo by cutting interesting
words from the newspaper or making up new words by
combining newspaper letters eg: shurkle or yambicles.
The Gruffalo activities
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rhyme? Can you think of other words that rhyme with
those?
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Look at each type of punctuation and explain why it
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for some inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=zcPfTRi1gwQ
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is described in the book. Use the newspaper to cut out
and create your Gruffalo. Find words like these in the
newspaper. Cut them out and use them to describe
your Gruffalo (Terrible claws, Terrible teeth, Terrible
jaws, Knobbly knees, Turned out toes, Poisonous wart,
Orange eyes, Black tongue, Purple prickles) Make
your own interesting animal at: http://switchzoo.com/
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newspaper. Paste them around your own drawing
of Gruffalo.
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shows and choreograph ballets for us. A
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Marcia K. Vaughan
She was born in the USA but lived in New
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coming to Australia, where she worked
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began writing and being published. She
wrote more than 85 books, including fun
activity and recipe books, and many in
reader series such as Jellybean Readers,
Celebrate Reading, Voyager and Literacy
Links. She also wrote the Deadly and
Dangerous Australian nature series for
children. Her characters in Wombat Stew
(1985) have been used in children's
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mystery series of 26 volumes. Many of the
reviews have commented on the suitability
of her works to be read aloud and she has
explained this in interviews by stating that
she reads a story onto an old fashioned
cassette tape. Although living in the USA
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to write Australian stories.
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catches a wombat and wants to cook him in a
stew. But all the other bush animals have a plan
to save their friend. They trick the dingo into
using mud, feathers, ies, bugs and gum nuts in
his wombat stew, and the result is - a stew the
dingo will never forget!
Hidden in the grid below, are the ways that some Australian
animals move. Find the words and match them to the animal
they belong to.
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think the Dingo named his recipe
wombat stew?
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recipe if he had caught one of the
other animals? Koala Cookies!
Could you make a rhyme for a
new dish you invent? Choose
items from the newspaper to add
to your recipe. Cut them out and
place them in a cooking pot.
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the words that end in y (gooey,
brewy, chewy, yummy, crunchy,
munchy, etc) - Brainstorm more
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bird and then write a description
like one of these: Paul the
platypus paddled and played in
the pond, or, Simon the snake slid
slowly down the slope.
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