National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country.

This year it is taking place on Wednesday 27th May. Our online learning for the day will all revolve around this story.

Whitney and Britney are two gorgeous chooks who live alongside Dora von Dooze. But Dora is perplexed – why do her dear chickens seem to sleep all day long? Dora decides to snoop. She follows the chooks out at night to the local jazz club where she discovers, to her amazement, that they are Whitney and Britney: Chicken Divas!

Like Whitney and Britney in the book, what would you night-time secret career be if you had one? Leave is a comment below.

Oh, don’t forget to also post your completed task from our Whitney and Britney Choice Board to this Padlet:

 

Homophones are two or more words which have the same pronunciation but have different meanings or word spellings.

In Year 4 this week we have been investigating these word pairs and have created short skits to demonstrate our knowledge of the difference between two homophones.

 

Create your own video and add it to our Padlet wall OR try to use a pair of homophones in the same sentence and leave it as a comment.