World Oceans Day - June 8th

By Karen Waschinski and Trish MacGregor

Thank you Karen for sharing your inspiring displays. I like the way you have used the theme in a variety of ways for the different spaces of your library.

Here are Karen's comments:

'I'd like to share the displays currently up in our Library for World Oceans Day (June 8). We have a small display case on our main floor calling attention to the plight of our oceans in regards to plastic pollution. I became aware of the photos of the dead birds from the website Midway and the "water" behind the Lorax is simply newspaper bags. Our children's floor has a more inviting, bubbly display featuring "Dive Deep into Books" as a theme. Note that the backboard blue was inexpensively created using plastic table cloths which can be reused as craft drop cloths in the future (and then recycled!). Also, a lot of the watery props were originally used for a past summer reading program oceans theme, so they are also getting a second life!'

To find out more about World Oceans Day check out their website: World Oceans Day

National Sea Week (New Zealand)

By Elaine Pearson

February 26 – 6 March 2011.
Sea Week is an annual event run by the NZ Association for Environmental Education. The theme for 2011 is Back to the Future! The culture, history and traditions of the sea. Kia kaha tangata moana!

For more details and some great free resources check out: NZAEE Sea Week

Our teachers went off to a paid union meeting yesterday afternoon and the students were sent home. I took the advantage of a quiet afternoon to prepare this display for Sea Week. I simply tore some strips of coloured sugar paper (courtesy Art Department) into wavy lines to create sea and sand, got some cheerful images of sea creatures from Google Images which I printed on white card, cut everything out and put it together on the display board. The poster was printed from the Sea Week website and laminated.

There is a wide choice of books to display, I found some books about sea life, some adventure sea stories and some fiction stories based on a sea theme. Don't forget Seal Boy which matches this year's theme well and Kevin Boon's Whalers and Sealers: