Holy Cross School Trinity Park eNewsletter

SCIENCE WEEK - YEAR 5 AUTHOR TALK

"This week for Science Week Year 5 had the exciting opportunity to meet the author and illustrator of the new book 'Peculiar Parents' through a Q&A set up by the National Library of Australia. This book is about 60 Australian animals focusing on all things family from picking a mate, making a home, having babies, finding food and looking after one another. We got to meet an ecologist from Wildbark Learning Centre at Mulligans Flat where we learnt about the New Holland mouse, and how when they give birth, their babies are the size of a grain of rice! During the session with author Stephanie Owen Reeder and illustrator Ingrid Bartkowiak, we also learnt how to draw a realistic cockatoo like they have in the book! Peculiar Parents is a great book because it teaches you all about the many different Australian animal species and their weird and wonderful ways of living!" - Chanya & Jooah 5S.

"We attended the Webinar on ‘peculiar parents’ it was a webinar for science week targeted at primary students hosted by the national library of Australia with author Stephanie Owen Reeder and illustrator Ingrid Bartkowiak. They explored peculiar animal parents and shared the importance of scientific information and descriptions coming through in the illustrations in books. The students then did a little activity in class in groups where the ‘author’ had a secret picture of an animal - a thorny devil and the illustrator - partner with a whiteboard could ask for information about the mystery animal and had a go drawing it based on descriptions only. It was hilarious and the students did very well. We also had a little paper plane challenge and went out to fly them on the oval." - 5C