Each year in May, the Australian Library and Information Association holds National Simultaneous Storytime - the same book is read, at the same time, all over the country. The target for this year was easily achieved with over 2 million students in over 59,000 locations world-wide, reading Rebecca Young’s “The Speedy Sloth”, illustrated by Heath McKenzie.
On Wednesday 24 May at 10:30am, all of the Junior School watched a reading of ‘The Speedy Sloth’, not just in English, but also in Spanish, courtesy of Senora Grados. Some sloths (Ms Dodson and Mrs Ivancic) also visited classes, handing out sloth stickers and encouraging the persistence of Spike from the story.
During Library lessons in the week prior our students conducted research into sloths, finding out interesting facts such as the reason for their sluggishness - they have a super low metabolic rate. They also did some mindful sloth mandala colouring and read “The sloth who came to stay”, by Margaret Wild.
Mrs Rachael Cosentino