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A Perfect Purim. By Zainab Ahmed

This week it was Purim and it was a blast! Everyone was dressed so lovely and even the teachers! I dressed up as an evil scientist with potions and everything. When the time came for the Purim Parade the teachers went up too!

We then gave Mishloach Manot bags, my one was for Aisha and they weren’t just bags they were white ones so we could decorate them. I received one from Sergei and he did a great job! We put chocolate, juice and crisps in them!

Then we went to do a challenge and that was to find as many words as possible in the word “Queen Esther”. If you did not want to you could have sat and done some relaxing colouring.

We then went to the Purim Quiz and it was super fun, my team won! So we got to choose a prize mine was a pink pencil with white dots.

After that we created our own Purim paper masks. We then went on a Treasure Hunt and our team was so good at it we even got the bonus questions!

Then we had some more relaxing time. We just sat down and ate some yummy Auzne Hamman and drank some juice, after a while we had to do a Purim Play in less than a minute. And guess what!? Gabby said we were the only group who did it right. Finally, in our last station we had to dance.

It was an amazing Purim!

Pupil Blog Entry

Purim! By Ilya Gladkikh

This Thursday it is Purim! Nobody can wait!

There will be so many fun things to do! Stations, competitions, activities and the part that I’m most excited about… Mishloach Manot (food gifts)!

There are a couple of tradition, like reading the Megilat Esther, the story of when Queen Esther saved the Jews lives. The other tradition is dressing up in fancy costumes. We dress up because we are supposed to look different. Also, Hashem is mentioned in the story but does not appear as he is in disguise, so we do the same.

There is always a competition to see who has the best costume. Fellow classmates go crazy with their costumes! Once I remember someone came as a rubix cube and his friend came as a sandwich.

As I’ve said before, my favourite thing about Purim is Michloach Manot. These are girft bags of food decorated and given to friends.

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World Book Week

This week was World Book Week and Calderwood marked the occasion with a whole bunch of activities, including speed reading, a book swap, treasure hunts and a whole school assembly.

The first thing we did was read to the nursery class. We were each paired up with one or two kids from the nursery and we chose books that we could read to them. Some people gave comments on how good the nursery kids were and some nursery kids gave feedback as to whether they liked the book that they had read to them. The next day, it was time for the book swap. Every pupil had brought in one or two books that they had already read or had finished with. They were all collected and separated into groups, genres and age ranges. We all then got the chance to go and select another book from the collection, that we could now keep. Thursday was also Purim and that meant that we linked World Book Day with our Calderwood Purim traditions and all dressed up as characters from a book. On our final day of World Book Week, we took part in speed reading activities and treasure hunts. These were great fun!

For the school assembly, each class performed in a different way, all celebrating books and reading. The Primary 5 class performed a poem. Have a wee look at it…

I love to read, I really do, it’s a favourite hobby of mine.
And when I find a book I love, my chair feels like Cloud 9.

I love to read all sorts of things, some fiction and some real.
They speak to me in all lots of ways, with such a great appeal.

As we get older the books we read, can get tricky from time to time.
But to give up before the end of the book would truly be such a crime!

When I get stuck on a tricky word, I know what I should do.
To help me work out what it says, there are rules that I stick to.

Sometimes I’ll look at the picture, that will always give me a clue.
And sometimes I’ll sound the word out, and wish that problem ‘adieu’.

If the word is a little bit longer, I will break it up into its parts.
Or find smaller words within it, I’ve now got this down to a fine art!

If I had to replace the tricky word, I think of a word in its place.
Would the sentence still make sense now? I ask myself if this is the case.

Once I have tried each of these tricks, I might try one or two things.
I could reach for a dictionary or thesaurus perhaps + see what joy this might bring.

Last but not least there is always, an option for help I could use .
Ask my teachers, parents or friends, from which I have so many to choose.

There is nothing quite like a really good book, I will read every day if I can.
I will read as many books before I’m 16, that’s my brand new World Book Day plan.

Thanks for reading our World Book Day Blog!
Oliver and Zainab