Thank you to the over 100 students from Years 2 to 6 who have submitted recommendations for Rosary Reads. Students can recommend a fiction or factual text.

We are now also seeking recommendations of poems, especially those that can be fun to read aloud. Here's one by Sheila Norton (Poems to Read Out Loud!) , slightly adapted for Rosary:

An elephant came to my classroom one day. He sat at my table and wanted to play. My teacher said, "Shoo! All the children are scared!" But the elephant stayed where he was, in my chair. Mr Mogan came in with his bucket and broom. "I'll sweep that elephant out of the room!" He pushed him and pulled him- "You shouldn't be there!" But the elephant stayed where he was, in my chair. Mr Walker came in and read him a speech about elephants being too awkward to teach and not knowing the rules. But he just didn't care: the elephant stayed where he was, in my chair. Camera teams came from the ABC news. "Want to be in a feature," they asked him, "On zoos? What to be in Celebrity Animals? Yeah?" But the elephant stayed where he was in my chair. Next day when we went in the classroom, he'd gone. My teacher was pleased and said now we'd get on with spelling and maths, which was why we were there. But I want that elephant back, in my chair! 

Congratulations to Sophia G in Year 2, our second winner of a $20 book voucher. The next raffle draw will be in Friday 22nd August.  

Happy reading

Karen Green

English Lead