Somerset lifetimes 2019 Semester 1

Maracas ALPACAS WITH INQUIRING MINDS WITH ALPACAS AND MARACAS Our Junior School students celebrated the National Simultaneous

Storytime on Wednesday 22 May. The event involved over one million children with schools and libraries across Australia and New Zealand, reading the same book at exactly the same time.

This year’s book was Alpacas with Maracas by Matt Cosgrove, so we invited some very special, fluffy friends to Somerset to join in the fun. Ms Rebecca Collie, Head of Junior School, read the story to our Prep friends who all waited very patiently for the word “maracas” to be read, so they could shake theirs. Four alpacas on Somerset’s Towers Quad was a sight to behold! Our alpacas travelled from Grafton, thanks to Pauline and Col Glasser from Wahgungurry Alpacas. It gave our Junior School students the opportunity to get up close with Suri alpacas, Aristo and his sister Beersheba, and Huacayas, Marquisette and Mr Gigilo. Pauline taught us that Suri alpaca are the ones with long dread-locked fleece (like Al in the book) and Huacaya are fluffy (like Macca).

Alpacas with Maracas

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