Category: Clan News

Tay clan have had a great week celebrating Book Week Scotland!

We worked collaboratively to make a book cover of our clan novel – The Land of Roar.  Some clan members drew the cover of the book and the rest of the clan drew small pictures of characters or scenes from the book that we attached around the cover.  We were very proud of our teamwork.

We completed a book quiz and we think we got all the answers correct, Some of us swapped books with each other and were excited to have a new book to read at home and we enjoyed guessing the champions book shelf in the book ‘shelfie’ quiz.  We got Mrs Scobie, Miss Burton and Mrs Findlay’s book shelves straight away!

We enjoyed a visit from Mrs Findlay who read us the beginning of ‘Rivet Boy’ which we loved so much that we want to read more at another time.

Finally, we dressed up as our favourite book characters.  We had some characters from Harry Potter, Gangsta Granny and even some mythical creatures – I wonder if you can spot a very well-known green monster hiding in our pictures.

We have had a great week, enjoying lots of books and stories and these have helped us to gather new and interesting words that we can use when writing our own stories.

Tay clan were very proud to share their literacy learning with families this week.  We were very excited to demonstrate what and how we have been learning in our writing lessons and the progress we have made in our writing.  It was a lovely afternoon.  Thank you to everyone who attended.

We also enjoyed listening to our new class novel ‘The Land of Roar’ which hooked us into our new literacy theme for this terms learning.  We got comfy and relaxed on the carpet with pillows and sat ‘ by the fire’ (YouTube works wonders these days!) to listen to an imaginative story.  Afterwards, we took inspiration from the story and created maps of our own imaginary worlds.  We loved delving into our imagination, where anything is possible!