Category Archives: Reading

World Book Day

We enjoyed World Book Day on Thursday 2nd of March. Everyone got dressed up as their favourite characters and we thought that we looked great!

The whole school got together in the morning and listened to the story of Cinderboy told by Mrs Breen. This story was great and we really enjoyed listening to Mrs Breen telling it to us!

“Mrs Breen was great at telling us the story of Cinderboy – it was really funny!” – Demi

“I really liked Cinderboy because it was the story of Cinderella with a twist!” – Jenna

After we listened to Cinderboy, we all got into groups and read with each other. We brought books from the class and there were big books that we got to read too! This was really fun and we enjoyed getting to read with children form other classes.

Sharing With Parents

We had our Sharing With Parents session last week and had great fun introducing our parents to our class novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We showed off the new reading strategies that we use to help us understand books and then we got to try some activities with them.

We had to complete character wheels on some of the characters in the novel. Then we had to complete a character study on Charlie Bucket. We also got to show how we can use the visualising strategy to draw characters from their descriptions. For this task we had to read the description of Willy Wonka and then draw what we thought he might look like. It was really fun to see our parents’ drawings as well!

Holly: Sharing with parents was really fun because all the parents got to see what we have been working on.

Murray: I liked having my mum and dad there because they could see all the work I have been doing.

Kieva: I liked it because I liked showing my mum the strategies that we use in class.

Here are some photos of or Sharing With Parents (see if you can spot yourself!):

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