Room 13 chose ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ for Book Week. We enjoyed making a class beanstalk, growing our own beans in class, reading scripts and performing our story to Room 12. We had a fantastic time!
Category Archives: Literacy Week
Room 16 Library Visit
Today Room 16 enjoyed a trip to the library. The Librarian read us some great stories and we got the chance to read on our own and take books out.
Dancing in Rm 17!
As part of book week, we have been learning about the classic story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. In PE, we were working in groups to make up dances to the ‘Oompa Loompa’ song. We had a lot of fun creating our dances and enjoyed performing them to the class.
Room 16 Story Telling
As part of Literacy Week Room 16 made up stories using props and card ideas from the Scottish Story Box.
Room 3 Readathon
Room 3 enjoyed reading by themselves and listening to Mrs Sneddon reading during the Readathon.
Room 3 Literacy week
Today we retold the story of the Three Little Pigs, using puppets, from the wolves point of view. We were all fantastic!
Literacy Week Book Quiz Answers
Congratulations to our winners of our Literacy Week Book Quiz.
Here are the answers! How many did you get correct?
Primary 1-3
1. A giant lives at the top of the beanstalk.
2. The very hungry caterpillar turned into a butterfly.
3. Mr Happy is yellow.
4. A tiger came to tea with Sophie.
5. Goldilocks visited the three bears house.
6. Mog is a cat.
7. Mice are turned into horses to pull Cinderella’s coach.
8. Thomas the Tank Engine is blue.
9. Paddington Bear’s favourite food is marmalade.
10. Katie Morag’s brother is called Liam.
Primary 4-7
1. Black Beauty was a horse.
2. Aslan is the name of the lion from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
3. The Borrowers live under the floorboards.
4. Perfect Peter is the name of Horrid Henry’s brother.
5. BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant.
6. Tintin’s dog is called Snowy.
7. The pirate from Peter Pan is called Captain Hook.
8. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie’s surname is Bucket.
9. Peter Pan’s nursemaid, Nana, was a dog.
10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the first Harry Potter book.
11. Eeyore is the name of the donkey in Winnie the Pooh.
12. Mary Poppins is a nanny.
13. Dorothy was trying to get to The Emerald City.
14. Matilda’s teacher is called Miss Honey.
15. The main character from Boy Racer is called Tom.
16. Jacquline Wilson is the author of the Tracey Beaker stories.
17. Paddington Bear is from Peru.
18. The Grinch stole Christmas in the Dr Seuss book.
19. The Boy in the Dress is the name of the David Walliams book.
20. The Wimpy Kid is called Greg Heffley.
Literacy Week
From Monday 23rd – Friday 27th March, pupils at Lawmuir Primary celebrated Literacy Week.
Class lessons had an extra literacy focus and this was enhanced with a host of wonderful whole school events designed to promote, Reading, Writing and Talking and Listening. Take a look at all the fun we have had!
Classroom Activities
Story Box Workshop
Storyteller
Author Visit
Book Swap
Read-a-thon
Book Fair
Dress as a Book Character Day
