Book Week - Find your Treasure

Book Week Celebration ideas

If you are looking for some different ideas some of these might appeal. I like to plan Book Week Challenges. I have talked about this on other occasions.

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 2018 BOOK WEEK CHALLENGES

You have a treasure box but to open it you need a special key. You have seen the key once but it was long ago. You have been asked to make a new key or if materials are scarce prepare a diagram for a trusted locksmith to make a new key. Let's hope it works.

In your hand you are holding a tiny box. Inside is a treasure. This box can only be opened when someone recites three qualities (they could be magical) of the treasure. Even though the box is very small the treasure can be any size huge or teeny tiny. That is part of the magic. Make the tiny box and attach a label with the three (magical) qualities.

Design or draw a maze (it could be three Dimensional) that shows the way to the treasure hidden in a faraway land.

Design a poster offering a reward for anyone who finds your lost treasure. The poster should describe the treasure and explain how to claim the reward.

When we think of treasure we think of pirates. Draw a labelled diagram of your ideal pirate and give him or her a name. Add some props – a parrot would be an example of a pirate prop.

There is an important treasure hidden in your classroom or another place you choose. Where is it? What is it? Why is it hidden? Why is it important? Write a set of clues or a map or a diagram on one side of your page and the answers to these four questions on the back.

One book you have read or own is truly a treasure. Write a letter to the author or illustrator or publisher explaining why this book is one you really treasure.

Use the slogan "Find your treasure" or some of the short listed titles to make a puzzle or game e.g. find a word, dot to dot, cross word or a mystery code.

Some books to use with short listed titles:

Boy  

What the Jackdaw Saw by Julia Donaldson

The Race by Christobel Mattingley

Florette

Neville by Norton Juster

Footpath flowers by Jon Arno Lawson

The curious Garden by Peter Brown

The boy who painted the Sun by Geoff Hocking

Last tree in the city by Peter Carnavas

The second Sky

Leonardo’s dream by Hans de Beer

A wish for wings that work by Berkley Breathed

Filbert flies by Karl Ruhmann

I’m Australian Too by Mem Fox

Whoever you are by Mem Fox

My Two Blankets by Irene Kobald

The great rabbit chase

James by Ruth Park

Ducky’s Nest by Gillian Rubenstein

Little Rabbit lost by Harry Horse

Finding Monkey moon by Elizabeth Pulford

A hen for Izzy Pippik by Aubrey Davis

Mopoke

Goodnight owl by Pat Hutchins

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen – for a total contrasting book about the beauty and mystery of owls

The Hunt by Narelle Oliver

Take away the A by Michael Escoffier

The Silly book by Babette Cole

The nonsense show by Eric Carle

A walk in the bush

My Little world by Julia Cooke

Up in the garden and down in the dirt by Kate Messner

With Nan by Tania Cox

Here is a poem which links with the slogan

From : https://davidlharrison.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/poem-of-the-week-my-treasure/

CBCA Winners for 2018

Eve Pownall Award (Non Fiction)

Do not Lick this book

Picture Book of the Year

A Walk in the Bush 

Book of the Year Early Childhood

Rodney Loses it!

Younger Readers

How to Bee