Thursday was a very exciting day in P1A as we celebrated World Book Day. Many of us took part in the Book Swap and were delighted with the new books we took home.

We also enjoyed looking at the ‘Stories in a Jar/Box’ and working out what story they are representing. Well done to everyone for demonstrating so much creativity however a special well done to Cara and William who were winners from P1!

       

      

On Thursday morning we were beaten by the weather for PE so we stayed in the classroom and did some Yoga. We of course had to link this to World Book Day and our Yoga session was based on ‘We are Going on a Bear Hunt’.

We were extremely lucky to receive a visit from Mrs Syme who teaches P6. Mrs Syme is trained to deliver Bookbug Sessions and gave up her time to come and deliver one to us. She based it around our story of the week, The Gruffalo. We remembered lots of the songs from previous sessions we had attended at nursery or the library and all loved the very shiny lycra at the end!

In the afternoon, we listened to a story except Mrs Agnew didn’t tell us the title or the show us the front cover or pictures. We had to listen very carefully to the story because we were then tasked with choosing a title for the story and designing a front cover. Once we had completed this, we then had to retell part of the story in our own words. The story hasn’t been revealed yet…we will find out on Monday!

We also took part in a class competition to ‘Snap a Story Scene’. We chose Paper Dolls and went outside to take photos to see if other children at assembly could guess which story we were acting out. We were extremely enthusiastic about this and loved that our story was a secret!

Here we are creating four scenes from the story, Paper Dolls.