We have had a very exciting week celebrating World Book Day! The theme this year is ‘Read Your Way’ with the aim being to bring the fun of reading to more children.

We started off with the Book Swap on Wednesday. We were all delighted to bring our chosen book home and love showing each other what we had picked.

We took part in a ‘Book Scavenger Hunt’ where we had to scan the books for many different things such as an alien, a witch or a vehicle. We were tasked with finding an example of friendship within the books and this prompted lovely discussions. We saw examples of cuddles and kindness which we could identify as a way to be a good friend.

    

On Thursday, Ms Doig visited our class and read Paddington to us. She brought a lovely Paddington for us to see and we even got to smell some of Paddington’s marmalade!

We were asked to study an author and P1 were given Nick Sharratt to learn about. He is also a famous illustrator We learned a little about Nick and how he became an author an illustrator. We have explored a variety of book that he has either wrote or illustrated. Our favourite was ‘Pants’ and this led to us designing our own pants on Friday.

We also listened to Mrs Agnew reading ‘The Foggy Foggy Forest’ but the cover and pages were hidden. We had to listen carefully to the story and use our imagination to design a front cover for it.

    

On Friday , we explored the style of Nick Sharratt’s illustrations. We had a go at drawing like him by following a ‘draw along’ video. We of course chose a dinosaur to draw since this is our current topic in class!

Some of us shared our learning at assembly 🙂

The most exciting part of the week was meeting with our buddies to enjoy some stories. We loved showing them our teddies and cosying up to read a book together.