Pick a Book, Any Book - What makes a book a Children’s Classic?

Year 4 YACHTS, 2023 (An Impact Project)

This term in YACHTS our Extension Program, chosen Year 4 students presented their Impact Projects.

What is an Impact Project?

It is an independent project. It is an investigative activity. Rather than being a teacher-centered program, it is a student-centered curriculum. It demonstrates the student’s initiative, creativity, determination, and personal values and interests.

Purpose - The purpose of this project is to encourage students to choose a selection of books from a list of Classic Children’s Literature. For this independent reading project, students are in the driver’s seat. They have to design their own project that reflects the impact of these books on them.

An Overview of what students had to do.

1. Look at the question – What makes a book a Children’s Classic? Choose which books they would like to read. They researched authors, themes, and/or topics of their choice from the Classic Children’s Literature selection of books.

2. Next they designed a project that reflected how these books have changed them or their view of history and/or the world and what they have learned.

3. Finally, they reflect and showcase what they have learned through a presentation of their choice.

An Impact Project for independent reading is a project that reflects not only the joy that reading brings but also reflects other things that bring happiness or impact lives in some way.

Congratulations to the students and to Mrs. Julie Darr for her leadership – we had a wonderful afternoon celebrating together.

Mrs Sue Zweck, Head of Teaching and Learning K-5