Carey Celebrates Literature!
Every year Carey celebrates literature by having a festival. This year the festival was planned by volunteer Year 5 and 6 students, with help from the teachers. There are activities at lunch, and authors come. I didn’t help plan the festival but lots of my friends did and they did a great job! An author comes to give a speech and do a workshop with each year level, and Mark Wilson came for the Year 5’s. He writes and illustrates picture books.
This is one of his books.
My favourite parts of the festival were when Mark Wilson came and we got to draw. We drew lots of random things, like shells, eyes and flowers. Then we drew his friend, Charles, who was an ANZAC. I also enjoyed spending time with my buddy, Ben, he’s in Year One. We did the ‘Book Hunt’ which was a lunch time activity, and some drawing in the Library.
Mark taught us how to draw a silhouette, I was surprised by how simple they are to draw. You draw a stick figure, then fill it in to make the body, hat and we added guns since our silhouettes were ANZACZ’s. It looked pretty realistic.
He also taught us what an ANZAC going into battle looks like now. They have cameras, a microphone, a computer to help guide and locate soldiers, and more.
Do you have a favourite author, if so have you met them and which one of their books is your favourite?
-Sylvie
Hi Sylvie,
I really enjoyed the literature festival because of all of the lunch time activities especially the footy one, also the treasure hunt where you had to find certain book covers and if you found all of them you could of won a prize. Amy favorite author is Oliver Phommavanh and my favorite one of his books is con nerd.
from Henry