Last week saw P3/4 have lots fun and exciting opportunities to experience reading. We had many different visitors in to see us and some even went out into the community to experience reading.

Our week started with a visit from Miss Cunningham from Cochrane Castle Primary, who chose to read one of her favourite books to us, ‘The Owl who is Afraid of the Dark’.

On Tuesday, we received a special visit from our School Education Manager, Miss Thomas. She brought in a book that was very special to her son when he was in primary three and four, called ‘Katie Morag and the Big Boy Cousins’. Miss Thomas also brought in a special device called a Kindle. She told us about all the books she had on it and how when on holiday, she loves to get lost reading a book and imaging all the different scenes.

Thursday saw a very special visitor, in the form of Provost of Renfrewshire, Lorraine Cameron. Provost Cameron came to visit Primary three’s to give them  a ‘Read, Write, Count Book Bag’. Whilst the Provost was here, she read one of the stories to the class, it was called ‘You’re Called what?’ The story was all about real-life animals with very strange sounding names.

As a very special treat, the Provost let those of us that wanted too, try on her official chain of office.

Primary 4’s joined Miss McCann’s class and walked to Starbucks, they were read a book by the Manager. They also got a treat of some hot chocolate.

Friday saw our class get two visitors. Firstly the house captains of Cochrane Castle came and read a story to the class.

Our Final visitor of the week was Katrina McGovern, the School’s Barnardo’s PAThS Co-ordinator. Katrina brought in a book that was very special to her, ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’, she even brought in a toy rabbit! Everyone loved the story!

Book week was great and all the class thoroughly enjoyed it, and this can be summed up in a quote by one of our class members.

“Books are so important, they don’t just help my reading. It helps my spelling, my imagination, my writing  and how I understand things. Reading is great!”

Primary 4/5 love reading books and want to share this with the local community!

They have hidden books in popular places around Johnstone. These books are in a zip lock bag with a little note and instructions on what to do. If you are lucky enough to find one of our bags take it home, read and enjoy!

All we ask is that when you are finished , you hide it back in the community with the note so that others can share and enjoy it too!

If you can, take a selfie with the book and post it onto our schools Facebook/Twitter to help share the message.

Here are some picture clues to help you identify some possible hiding places.

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Primary one had a very exciting afternoon today!

We had a visit from the Skoobmobile, we were SO excited!!

On the bus we read “The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears” then we went back to class and drew an alternative ending for the story! We also drew another lost item for Maurice in the “Station Mouse” and played pin the horn on the unicorn as we  enjoyed “Sophie Johnson Unicorn Expert.”

We are  going to vote on our favourite book and send it away to Bookbug! “

We worked together to make Anti-bullying posters.

We understand how important respect for all is in our school and school community.

Today we visited Lime Tree Larder and met with Alex and Jean Wilson the very lovely and welcoming owners.

We visited this  artisan chocolate factory as  a way to celebrate the finishing off our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory topic .

Jean shared with us how Lime Tree larder create their fantastic chocolates and she told us all about the different regions of the world that chocolate ( cocoa ) is grown.

Did you know that there are four types of chocolate?

There is Dark chocolate made with a high concentration of cocoa and very little sugar, Milk chocolate which is made with  a mixture of cocoa, sugar milk and cocoa butter, White chocolate which is cocoa butter (extracted from the cocoa bean ), sugar and milk and last but not least Rubi chocolate , made from a very special cocoa bean found in Venezuela ,milk and sugar. The Rubi chocolate is pink and we thought it tasted like strawberry!

We had so much fun and got to taste A LOT of tasty treats!