This year everyone brought in their favourite book. They retold the story in their book to a friend and then drew out a Storymap of the book, a short summary with pictures. The Storymaps were swapped around and people got to read a little of other people’s. Now more people have ideas of books they’d like to read themselves.

We all wrote our own little book about Shaun the Sheep and Bitzer and illustrated it too?

In the little bits of time that we had between other things, we did some drama about books and a quiz where we had to guess the book from a description of the story.

At the end of the day, Iyla read us all a story. Now more than half the class has brought in a book of their choice and read it to their friends. Our reading is really coming along brilliantly.

All in all we had an excellent day, celebrating how amazing books are and how they enrich our lives!