Kilbirnie BookBusters in May

Kia Ora Koutou BookBusters!

Our May session had a Most Mysterious MYSTERIES theme. We welcomed several new members to our group this month. We had a full and busy session.

We learnt how to access all kinds of information from the Libraries’ KIDS website. BookBusters detectives followed the clues and successfully completed the website quiz.

We looked at Mystery themed books in our libraries. We discussed the Mystery genre (what all Mystery books have in common) and we completed Mystery activities to do with these.

We just squeaked in time for a look at some of the new books in our libraries, as well as some excellent book reviews from our members. Keysha reviewed How To Survive Summer Camp by Jacqueline Wilson, Casper reviewed Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling and Joshua reviewed The Earth, a non fiction book. All three books were highly recommended by our reviewers.

Next week’s BookBusters theme will be MAGIC. Fairies, goblins, spells and enchantments as well as magic tricks and sleight of hand to AMAZE and ASTOUND your friends. Don’t miss it! Our next meeting is June 7th, 2012 4 -5pm Kilbirnie Library. Ka Kite Busters!

Johnsonville BookBusters Reviews

Here are some of the great books the Johnsonville BookBusters have been reading in the last month.

Noah has been reading the Diary of a Wimpy Kid.  It tells the story of Greg’s first year in high school and Noah loves the part where they play a  trick on Greg, saying if your hand is bigger than your face then that is a sign of low intelligence.

 

 

 

Adian has been reading a book about  Disasters. It includes all types of disasters from train and boat wrecks through to natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes and storms. He really enjoyed reading all about the Titanic disaster.

 

 

Satine as been reading Hannah Montana – Face Off. She really loves this book and it is the second time she has read it. She loves the bit about Hannah not wanting to go to camp because she has a big pimple on her face.

 

 

 

Snigdha has been reading Matilda. Snigdha really enjoys Roald Dahl and Matilda is one of her favourites. She has read this story twice. Matilda is a genius – when she was 1 ½ she could talk like us and when she was 3 she could read the newspapers but her parents thought she was an idiot.

 

 

Navneet has been reading Meet the Humansons which is from the Freak Street series. This book is about a family who are very dumb – they think the police are hairdressers. The come across a zoo who are giving away their animals. They think the zoo is a pet store so they decide to take a killer whale home as a pet.

Johnsonville BookBusters

Johnsonville BookBusters had an awesome meeting this month despite being a little squashed because of our earthquake renovations.

As it was New Zealand Music month we decided to have a musical theme. We started off with a ‘who’s who? in the music world’ game with pictures of famous musical people from One Direction (who most people got)  through to Mozart (who proved more tricky). Overall most BookBusters were able to work them all out.

We listened to some great book reviews and finished off with a noughts and crosses game with a musical twist.  This was a lot of fun and became a fiercely fought contest between our two teams.

Congratulations also to 3 BookBuster for receiving their six month certificates.

Next meeting: Thursday 7th June at 4pm. Come along!

Karori BookBusters May Book Reviews

At the May meeting Karori BookBusters had read HEAPS of books! Here are some of the ones we liked…

Sophie is reading a Geronimo Stilton book called Run for the hills, Geronimo! Amy L has also read this book and thought it was good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Khushi has been reading princess and fairy books at school and recently read Ruby the red fairy by Daisy Meadows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy read a Babymouse comic called The musical by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm. She liked that the narrator keeps popping in at the worst of times! Babymouse is trying out for the musical and gets the part of the understudy.  Three and three quarter stars!

 

 

 

 

 

Emily has read the Neverending story by Michael Ende which is about a boy who really likes reading and starts reading a book about a land which is in danger, but then he finds out that he is part of the book. She has also been reading Garfield comics.

 

 

 

 

Henry has read some of the Hardy Boys books by Franklin W Dixon and gives them five out of five stars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emily has been reading the puppy books by Holly Webb.

 

 

 

 

 

The next Karori BookBusters meeting is on June 5th at 4pm. Come along!

Fun at Tawa BookBusters

Tawa Bookbusters had a great session in May with a crowd of 20 BookBusters coming along for the fun. We welcomed some new members and gave out some certificates.

Well done to Harrison who got his 12 month certificate and Hamish and Max who got their 6 month certificates. Woo Hoo!

We heard an interesting story called Mirror by Jeannie Baker. This is a good book to read to find out more about Fair Trade (Fair trade Fortnight 5-20 May)

We did something different for our reviews- the Bookbusters Chief held up some different books and different BookBusters gave a review of it.

We also had to write our own story by each doing a different line, folding it over and passing it on to another person and then writing the next line. They came out very funny. Here’s some of them:

 

 

1) Once upon a time, there was a girl named Venessa and a boy called Harry, they found 3 gems and wonderred what to do with them. They went to their mum an dad’s for a hot chocolate.

2) Once in a far away land, there was a chubby cat and a fluffy dog in a jungle. , ” Waho!!” Shouted Lochie, but when he touched one, they felt scared and then he flew away.

3) One day, there were 2 dogs named Amy and Zoe, and one day they fall into a deep pit. It was very dark and cold. They were scared there was nothing left but dirt.

4) One beautiful sunny day, Issac and Lochie came across a chest full with diamonds. They got trapped in a jungle of snakes. I need to rescue it. After years, someone came along and fished them out.

 

Come along to the next BookBusters meeting at Tawa Library – June 6th at 4pm. See you there for more fun!

May Karori BookBusters

What a fantastic meeting we had this month!  We were very happy to welcome several new BookBusters to our group – it was wonderful that you could join us.  The chiefs really enjoyed hearing about all the interesting books you’ve been reading (look out for our reviews here soon)!

7-11th May is Primary Science Week so we celebrated by looking at some of the libraries’ cool science books and we made our own paper planes – these flew incredibly well!  If you’d like to have a go making your own here’s a great link to try: Fun Paper Planes.

Next meeting is on June 5th at 4pm, see you all again!

BookBusters time

Calling all book lovers! BookBusters is on next week. Hop along to your nearest club to join in:

Tuesday 1 May at 4pm: Island Bay and Karori Libraries

Wednesday 2 May at 4pm: Tawa Library

Thursday 3 May at 4pm: Johnsonville and Kilbirnie Libraries

Don’t miss out on all the fun and new books.

What happened at Kilbirnie BookBusters in April?

Our hardy Kilbirnie BookBusters adventurers swashbuckled their way mightily through our Adventure themed session this April. BB image for email

We learnt how to draw our own dragons and we followed the cryptic clues on our library treasure hunt. We shared and reviewed books that we have been reading recently and we looked at a range of Adventure themed books in our library.

Sadly, this month we said goodbye to two of our BookBusters Chiefs. Coco and Anna are leaving to have adventures of their own. We wish them all the very best on their new and exciting endeavours.

See you next month for more BookBusters fun! Next meeting is on May 3rd at 4pm.