Rileyʻs Australian Experience

Riley, how we have missed you over the last week. You are such an enthusiastc, positve person in our kindergarten. This week you arrived back refreshed and so excited from your Australian experience. With our penchant for book writing there was nothing for it but to capture your memories for ever. After we had typed your words into the computer we explored the options with regards to illustrating your book. After due deliberation you chose to mix the genres of drawn illustrations and Google Images. Exploring Google images brought a whole new depth to your story as you chose a picture by debating the merits (or lack of them) in each option. It is certainly an important task for the author to choose illustrations that best represent the intent of the story. How well you completed that task! We even perfected the task of copying and pasting them into the book document. Then you chose to draw those very important people in your story ... but that was not the end of the task! Next you had to take a photo of each drawing with the camera (remembering to put the camera lanyard around your neck for the safety of the camera) and download the photos onto the laptop. How easy it was to then drag and drop your photos into your story. It was time to change your authorʻs hat for your publisher hat. In our kindergarten the literacy technologies are an integral part of our literacy for a purpose programme. Laminating and binding precious pages produces a product that can be shared with others, as you did today at group time, or can be revisited over and over again. Your Mum shared with me that you had told her about the book that you were writing and checked with her to see if you had missed anything out. I think she would have to agree that you did very well. You even remembered to bring your remote controlled car in to laminate. Riley you showed enthusiasm, persistence and skill as both an author and a publisher. Well done.