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World Book Day

March 8, 2025 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

On Thursday 6th March we celebrated World Book Day. We started off by listening to a snippet from Mrs Smith’s favourite childhood novel and then we did a fast and furious Speed Recommendation where we had one minute each to sell our favourite books!

Some pupils also spent time with Ms Stewart going through a sensory story for the, ‘We’re Going On A Bear Hunt’ book.

After playtime, we looked at lots of novels and picture books and spent time talking about what makes a good book recommendation. We noticed that they often use good describing words, mention themes tackled in the story and what type or genre the book is. We also looked at who was commonly making the recommendations and why they were a good choice.

After lunch, we tried to write our own recommendations for our favourite books to be added to a class display. It was quite tricky to keep it short and remember that we weren’t describing the plot like in a report!

Here are some of our attempts…

“Thrills readers with a ride through a detailed world full of horrific, exciting and imaginative mysteries.” Archie, the number 1 fantasy fan.

If you like fantasy and animal stories this is the one for you! Leva a fan of Linda Chapman.

A hilarious book with a CRAZY family! If you like comedy books then this book is for you! Elsie Geldenhuys the biggest Roald Dahl and David Walliams fan!

This story is wonderfully enchanting, astonishingly adventurous and inspirational. The story will leave you in a joyful, courageous mood. Honor Johnstone 9 years old and fan of J.K. Rowling.

An adventurous and funny novel. And it’s by the great Roald Dahl. By Greg Leslie Fantastic Mr Fox Fan.

A disgusting and hilarious book about a family of Twits. A Roald Dahl Lover (Drewie)

An imaginative book, fabulous for a younger audience. It is very exciting and adventurous. Elska Ritch the Enid Blyton fan.

Last week, we started to prepare our World Book Day display by drawing us looking at our favourite books and we tried to think about what our expressions would look like while we are reading!

Stop by and have a look if you are passing our class!

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World Book Day

March 2, 2023 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Today we celebrated World Book Day in a number of ways. Last week, we talked about the importance of listening to books, especially from a young age. We talked about books that would appeal to younger children and how the reader has an important part to play in the enjoyment of a story. With this in mind, each child chose a book that they would like read to a pupil in the ELC department or P1/2. They rehearsed reading it and thought about stopping to ask questions or point out details in the illustrations.

Our class really enjoyed it and were super role models! When the books were done, it was great to see the younger pupils rushing to get their books to read back! We even had a little time to watch them paint.

Back in our class we played a World Book Day game where they were shown a cover, title and blurb. Each team then had to create a believable opening sentence, thinking about recent class work done on different openers. When all were written, we read them all out, including the real sentence. Each group got 2 points if they correctly guessed the right sentence and a bonus 5 points if their sentence was chosen instead of the actual one!

Here are the made up sentences for the book ‘Jelly’ by Jo Cotterill. Can you tell which is the right one?

Angelica, nicknamed Jelly, was the comedy queen of the classroom!
“Do it now, Jelly! Please!
Angelica, also known as Jelly, was the class clown.
”Angelica, stop that noise,” said Mrs Brown.
Angelica was shocked that her Mum had a new boyfriend and was going on a date!

At the end of the day, we shared some of our favourite books.

I really like the Wimpy Kid series. I like all the characters. Each story is new but the books link up a bit.

I really like The Call of the Wild and I have watched the movie. The book has lots of twists and turns in it!

This book is split into stories about each pet. So far, my favourite is Picasso the Horse because Molly gets rich when she finds out the horse can paint!

I like this book about animals. My Mum reads it to me. I like learning about animals like the poisonous dart frog.

We had some dressing up characters today too! We had a ballerina and Baby Yoda.

I like the Rainbow Grey series. They are good to read.

I like horses and ponies so this is the book for me!

I like this really funny book! It has good descriptions. Tom Gates writes little stories and puts them in the book.

This is about a cat that can turn spells on dogs. The spells can make them invisible and talk! Anyone who likes cats and magic would like this book.

Keep reading Draatsis!
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We got mail!

April 22, 2022 Mrs Smith 1 Comment

Five pupils were delighted to come back from their Easter Holidays to find that they had received replies to the author letters they wrote for World Book Day! Some were standard replies from very busy authors but we were still grateful! One was a lovely, handwritten, personalised reply. The rest of the class are patiently waiting!