Upcoming events

Storytime
Storytime is held weekly on Friday mornings during school term. There are two sessions, one at 9.30am and one at 10.30am. Both sessions involve a selection of stories, singing, rhyming and a craft at the end. Storytime is open to all children aged 0-5 years old.

Baby Rhymetime
A special session just for 0-2 year olds is held each fortnight on Tuesday. Baby Rhymetime involves lots of singing, rhyming and body movement, as well a simple story.

Dates for the next 6 months are:

27/03/2012	05/06/2012
10/04/2012	19/06/2012
24/04/2012	03/07/2012
08/05/2012	17/07/2012
22/05/2012

 

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Databases for Children

	Intrepica A high-quality play-based literacy resource with more than 10,000 activities online for children of all ages and ability. Children and parents can select from activities focusing on pre-reading skills, phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and comprehension in a fun, exciting and safe online environment.
	Tumblebook Library Introduce young children to the joys of reading with this delightful collection of animated, talking picture books.
	Busythings Busythings is an online resource for the early years that includes 115+ fun learning activities that help children learn important skills in the key learning areas of creative development, problem solving, reasoning, numeracy, communication, language and literacy and knowledge and understanding of the world.

yourtutor

yourtutor is a unique learning service that connects students via the internet to qualified, expert tutors for individual conversations about homework, assignments, exam preparation and study questions.

Visit our yourtutor webpage.

Early Literacy Programs

The Kwinana Public Library is a proud participant in the Better Beginnings and Let's Read Early literacy programs.

Let's Read is an exciting initiative to promote reading with young children from birth to 5 years. There is a range of components to Let's Read. These work together to support and empower parents/carers to read with their young children. Let's Read aims to give children the skills they will need to learn to read when they start school. Let's Read is designed to be owned by and delivered in the community.

Better Beginnings

Developing a library habit early in life gives children a head start! The foundations of reading need to be laid long before children reach school and research conducted in the United Kingdom has shown that introducing a young child to the library is one of the most significant things a parent can do to make a difference to their child’s later education.

To introduce young children and parents to great books and early literacy activities, the State Library of Western Australia has developed Better Beginnings, a universal family literacy program for Western Australian children aged from birth to three years and their families. In partnership with the Rio Tinto WA Future Fund and Local Governments throughout WA, the State Government Better Beginnings will be established State-wide over the next four years.

Little Big Book Club

The Big Book Club Inc. is a not for profit arts organisation committed to the promotion of reading, literature and Australian authors and illustrators.