This year we celebrated World Book Day with all classes getting involved in a wide variety of activities to celebrate books and the English language.
The children in Transition had lots of fun sharing their favourite stories and talking about their favourite story characters. They also created special book marks to take home.
The children in Reception found the character that they were dressed as in books and read excerpts from the stories. They categorised the books as either fiction or non-fiction. If the children couldn’t find their character in one of our class library books, we used the Internet to find a picture and put it on the big screen.
One of the Reception children’s favourite authors is Julia Donaldson, therefore, they had fun with various activities related to her books. The pursuits involved, for example, the Room on the Broom story using ICT in an interactive SMART board activity, using magnetic words to write sentences to match the pictures and role play/acting out the story using masks of the ‘Room on the Broom’ characters.
Among many other activities, Year One created a character description, wrote their own books and shared stories with each other.
In Year 2, the children created a route and then the children had to produce a step-by-step guide instructing how to follow the route from Little Red Riding Hood’s home to Grandma’s home. The children also created their own word search puzzles based on a book.
In Year 3, the children created their own book covers and blurbs of books.
Year 4 undertook and activity linking causal conjunctions and adverbials together with looking at a puzzler book featuring different authors and books; this included a crossword, a quiz and a word search.
Year 5 have been looking at how many homes of children and adults do not have a single book and how this is impacting on education and life as a whole.
Year 6 considered their favourite book and authors then focused on biographical books, creating a cover for a biography of a figure they admire.
Thank you to all of our parents for providing superb costumes, which the children loved wearing.
