As part of Scottish Book Week  children in P1 are each given a bag of books to take home and enjoy. Last week in class we spent time  sharing, reading and listening to these books and on Friday the children were thrilled to take their Book Bug bag home.

The first book we focussed on was Arlo the Lion Who Couldn’t Sleep by Catherine Rayner. In the story an owl teaches Arlo about how to  take time to relax his body and mind. We practised some of the mindfulness activities that owl taught Arlo. We then made our own Arlo the lion and drew pictures of the dreams that Arlo might of had.
 

The second book from the bag was a nonfiction or fact book called My First Book of Woodland Animals by Zoe Ingram. We thought  about the difference between a story book and a fact book and discussed the lay out and the type of information we found in the book.We all got very excited about the interesting facts and wonderful illustrations in this book. We chose fox to draw a picture of using our oil pastels.

The last book in the bag was the story of Inch and Grub by Alastair Chisholm. This is the tale of two very competitive cavemen, who want to have more than the other but in the end they realise that the most important thing to have is each other’s friendship.

We drew what we thought Inch and Grub’s towers of belongings might look like.

On Monday we will vote for our favourite book in the bag. To listen to the books being read aloud or to find out more about the Scottish Book Trust visit www.scottishbooktrust.com