Holiday Reading - (Local Landmarks)

Local Landmarks

Take a photo of the explanation at some local landmarks.  This might be a logo e.g. the rotary ‘wheel’ on the walkway, or a plaque at the top of Mt Wellington.

-Title - Geronimo Stilton - Geronimo And The Gold Medal Mystery

-illustrators - Cinzia Marrese, Vittoria Termini, and Silvia Bigolin

-Type of Book - This book is a fiction

-Where am I Reading - I am reading in the Palmerston North City Library

Photo

For this holiday reading challenge I had to read at a local landmark for example the basin, Library or the rotary walkway. The place I read my book was the Palmerston North City Library and the book I read was called Geronimo and the gold metal mystery.

Holiday Reading - (Retell Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Night Of The Homework Zombies

- Author - Scott Nickel

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction / Graphic Novel

- Retell - The new backup teacher is turning every student in school into a brain boggled zombie who loves homework.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. The book I have retold is called the Night Of The Homework Zombies. I think this is a very interesting book to read.

Holiday Reading - (Retell Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Alien Invaders

- Author - David Sinden

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell - This book is about a boy from planet Earth is on a mission to save the galaxy from the outlaw kaos and his deadly alien invader.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity which I had to retell the book I read using 25 words or less.

Holiday Reading - Role-model Reader

Role-model Reader

Take a photo of an adult reading.

Bonus points for someone in the community e.g. policeman

Post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Name of the person - Cindy

- Title - Alien Invaders

- Author David Sinden

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Why they like the book - Cindy likes this book because she likes how some information in the book were very detailed.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the Role-model Reader. For this  activity I had to take a picture of an adult reading a book.

Holiday Reading - (Retell Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - Heromice - The Invisible Thief

- illustrators - Luca Usai, Valeria Cairoli and Daniele

- Type of Book- This book is a fiction

- Retell - Muskrat City is in trouble because they have a thief that has been stealing precious diamonds. This thief is an invisible thief.

Today I did the holiday reading challenge and I did the retelling activity. The book a have retold is called the The Invisible Thief which is a Geronimo Stilton book. I had to retell the book using 25 words or less.

Holiday Readig - (Retelling Using 25 Words Or Less

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - Cave mice - The fast and the frozen

- illustrators - Giuseppe Facciotto and Daniele Verzini

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell -  A visiting rodents has arrived in Old Mouse City with magnificent news about his holiday to a far land, he spotted a mountain moving.

Today I did the holiday reading challenge and I did the retelling activity again. The book I retold was called the fast and the frozen.

Holiday Reading Challenge - Retelling (Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - The Race Across  America.

- illustrators - Danilo Barozzi and Francesco Castelli

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell - This book is about when Geronimo Stilton has been invited by Bruce to a bicycle race across America. Geronimo couldn’t resist.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. Again I had to retell the book I have read using 25 words or less.

Holiday Reading - (Retell Using 25 Words Or Less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - The Enormouse Pearl Heist

- illustrators - Elisabeth Dami

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell- Geronimo Stilton and his friends had made an amazing discovery. They had found a huge oyster with an enormous pearl inside in the ocean.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. I had to retell the book I have read using 25 words or less. The book I retell was called The Enormouse Pearl Heist one of Geronimo Stilton books.

Holiday Reading - Retell (Using 25 Words Or Less

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Time Hunters

- Author - Chris Blake

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction/Adventure

- Retell - When ten-year old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he releases lsis, a young Egyptian mummy who has been imprisoned for years.  

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. For this activity I had to retell the story I read using 25 words or less. The book I read was Time Hunters written by Chris Blake.

Holiday Reading - Radical Reading

Radical Reading

Get someone to take a photo of yourself reading your book in a totally radical place.  

Post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - The All New Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book O’ Fun 2

- Author - Dav Pilkey

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction 

Where you are reading - I am reading up my tree house roof.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the radical reading activity. Again I had to read in a weird or radical place. This is a picture of me reading up my tree house roof.

Holiday Reading - Food Glorious Food

Food Glorious Food

Food is often mentioned in stories, or you might like to read a recipe book.  Find something that you could cook for your family and make it.  Take a photo or write out the recipe and post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - The Children's Step By Step Cooking Book

- Author - Angela Wilkes

- Type of Book - This book is a Non - Fiction

- Recipe

Ingredients Needed To Make Lasagna:

1  cup all-purpose flour

2  teaspoon baking powder

3  1 teaspoon white sugar

4  ½ teaspoon salt

5  1 tablespoon margarine

6  ½ cup milk

Directions/Method

Stir together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in medium size bowl. Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in milk to make a soft dough.

Drop by spoonfuls into boiling stew. Cover and simmer 15 minutes without lifting lid. Serve.

To make parsley dumplings, add 1 tablespoon parsley flakes to the dry ingredients.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the food glorious food activity. What I had to do with this activity was I had to read a recipe book find something I could cook with my family. Last night my mum decided to make dumplings for dinner. It tasted delicious!!!

Holiday Reading - Radical Reading

Radical Reading

Get someone to take a photo of yourself reading your book in a totally radical place.  

Post it onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - 300 minute of danger

- Author - Jack Heath

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Where you are reading - I am reading up my feijoa tree.

This activity I did for the holiday reading challenge is called Radical Reading. I  had to read a book in a really weird or radical place.  

Holiday Reading - Retell

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - Cat and Mouse in a haunted house

- illustrators - Valeria Turati

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Retell - This book is about when Geronimo founds a Curly Paw Canny's castle. As he searches He quickly discovered that the castle was haunted by cats!

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling activity. I had to retell the book I read using 25 words or less than 25 words.

Holiday Reading - Character Portrait

Character Portrait

If you particularly like one of the characters in your story, draw a portrait of them.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - Geronimo Stilton - Thea Stilton and the lost letters

- illustrators - Barbara Pellizzari, Chiara Balleello and Valeria.

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Who the character is and a description of them from the story - Paulina - Paulina is a girl who really loves travelling and meeting people from all over the word and also likes to help rodents.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the Character Portrait activity. Again I had to write a description of the character I draw. My book that I read was called The Thea Stiltons and the lost letters and My character that a drew was Paulina one of the Thea Stilton's.

Holiday Reading - Character Portrait

Character Portrait

If you particularly like one of the characters in your story, draw a portrait of them.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - Everest - Reaching for the sky

- Author - Joy Masoff

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Who the character is and a description of them from the story - There is a man who is tall and thin, with a long face and wild hair, he is thirty-three years old and raises bees at home in New Zealand he was one of the guys who climbed Mt-Everest and his name is Edmund Hillary.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the character portrait activity. Again I had to write a description of them from the story. I read Everest written by Joy Masoff and My character that I drew was Edmund Helliry.

 

Holiday Reading - Setting

Setting

If you particularly like one of the settings in your story, draw a picture of it.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - Everest - Reaching for the sky

- Author - Joy Masoff

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- A line from the book describing the setting - Mt Everest is very cold and very dark outside.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the setting activity. I had to find a line describing the setting I had chosen in the book I have read.

Holiday Reading - Retell (using 25 words or less)

Retell

(in 25 words or less)

The trick with retelling a story is keeping it to the main points.  In this case you only have 25 words so make them count! Post your recount onto your blog with a comment that tells you:

- Title - Everest - Reaching for the sky

- Author - Joy Masoff

- Type of Book - This book is a non-fiction

- Retell - This book is talking about Everest, the tallest mountain on earth, soars high above the tiny country of Nepal.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the retelling. I had to retell the book I read using 25 words or less. I had retell the book Everest which is written by Joy Mascoff.

Holiday Reading - Setting

Setting

If you particularly like one of the settings in your story, draw a picture of it.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000

- Author - Dav Pilkey

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- A line from the book describing the setting - Harold wobbled to George’s backyard and hoisted himself up the ladder to the chalky,dusty old tree house that has been standing there for nearly 20 years.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the setting activity. I had to find a line describing the setting I had chosen.

Holiday Reading - Character Portrait

Character Portrait

If you particularly like one of the characters in your story, draw a portrait of them.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - Captain Underpants and the tyrannical retaliation of the turbo toilet 2000

- Author - Dav Pilkey

- Type of Book - This books is a fiction

- Who the character is and a description of them from the story - Captain Underpants is really a bald person and he only wears a red cape with black spot on it and a regular white underpants.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did character portrait activity on Captain Underpants and the tyrannical retaliation of the turbo toilet 2000 book. My character I had choose was Captain Underpants

Holiday Reading - Character Portrait

Character Portrait

If you particularly like one of the characters in your story, draw a portrait of them.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - The christmas hat

- Author - A.J Wood

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- Who the character is and a description of them from the story - I’m a owl that’s white with black dots around me, a large beak that’s black and dark magenta eyes.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the Character Portrait. I had to write down a description describing the character.

Holiday Reading - Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Music often tells a story.  Can you think of a song that has the same message as your book?  Or you might think of a song that describes your main character, or might be their favourite song.  Describe the link between your book and the piece of music.  Post it onto your blog with:

- Title

- Author

- Type of Book

- Geronimo Stiltons favourite song - Geronimo Stilton has a theme song that he loves listening to and this theme song is by Guy Vasilovich.

Geronimo Stilton favourite theme song

This time for the holiday reading task I did the soundtrack activity. I have wrote down my main characters favorite theme song. If you want to hear it click the blue link that says Geronimo Stilton favourite theme song.

Holiday Reading - Setting

Setting

If you particularly like one of the settings in your story, draw a picture of it.

Post it onto your blog with the following information.

- Title - The Christmas hat

- Author - A.JWood

- Type of Book - This book is a fiction

- A line from the book describing the setting - As Rabbit and Badger were walking through the disgusting and Gross muddy puddles in the woods they found a little tiny owl.

Today for the holiday reading challenge I did the setting activity. I had to find a line from the book describing the setting