Article 28

You have the right to education

Over the past few weeks, Primary 5 have become authors of both fiction and non-fictions books all about the Rainforest.

After watching ‘The Road to Eldorado’, we began writing our own fictional adventure story for young children.  We had to include lots of imagery so that our audience would really know what it was like in the rainforest.   Our next challenge was to turn our stories into a colourful and well presented picture book with a catchy title.

This afternoon, in groups of three, we read our books to the Primary 1 children.  They all sat really well and listened with bright eyes and welcoming smiles to the adventures.  They all answered questions about the book and some of the P1 children even gave some great feedback!  Our thanks go to them all and we hope you all learned lots of new interesting vocabulary and information about the Rainforest.

Reading in groups of three, gave us all a little more confidence to speak loudly and clearly and by listening to each other, we gained and developed skills in using expression and body language to capture and hold our audience.

Our non-fiction books have been created as a homework challenge and have to be handed in before the Easter holidays.  More details about them at a later date.