Category: World Book Week 2018

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Primary 1 – World Book Day

We are learning to … read and listen to stories for enjoyment.

I can … take part in a story.

I can … retell stories in different ways.

I can … share likes and dislikes in stories.

As part of World Book Day, P1 heard lots of new stories and created lots of art and writing linked to them.  We had a big discussion about everything we did and what we thought about reading books.

What was your favourite story this week and why?

Harrison: Aliens love Underpants.  I liked making my own underpants!

Hannah: Blown Away.  I enjoyed making my own kite.  The story is about animals who are blown away on a kite.

Lewis: I enjoyed Aliens love Underpants.  My favourite part was when the aliens were dancing!

Jacob:  My favourite was Supertato.  The best part was when the carrot was stuck in the elevator.  I put eyes, masks, legs on different vegetables like celery and carrots.

Which story character did you dress up as this week?

Sophie:  I dressed up as Belle from my favourite book!

Jessica:  Anna from Frozen.

Christopher M & Christopher J: We were both Spiderman!

Kenzie:  I loved being a red Power Ranger!

Jacob and Mitzi – We were Horrid Henry.

What books do you like to read at home?

Corey:  I like fact books about sharks.

Iona: I like Frozen books

Danielle: I like interesting animal books or books about the seashore.  I have lots of different ones.

Hannah:  My favourite book book is Rapunzel.

Connor:   ‘The Back to Front Bat’ is my favourite.

Grace: I like scary stories.

Logan:  I like dinosaur stories.

Emma – Leigh: I like non-fiction books.

Ben:  I like Room on the Broom.

Leah:  I like Bat-girl stories and I dressed up has Bat-girl.

Ruraidh:  I like The BFG.

Christopher Pickwell:  My favourite story is Who’s in the Loo?  It’s a funny story!

Can you spot us all below?

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World Book Day: Supertato

In our workshop, we looked at the book ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet.  We talked about the main character and looked at a short video about how the authors created the caped potato superhero!

We then discussed the next book, ‘Supertato Veggies Assemble’.  In this book, the vegetables decide to work together as a team of ‘Super Veggies’!  All of the children then created their own super vegetable character.

 

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Primary 2

For ‘Pumphy Book Day’, we took part in activities linked to different stories.

So, what did we do?

Miss McLaughlin – We were looking at ‘This Book just ate my dog!’. We made our own greedy books and created our own titles (‘This book just ate…’).

Mrs Strachan – We were looking at ‘Aliens love Underpants’. We got to design our own aliens or our own pair of underpants!

Miss McLennan – We were looking at ‘Blown away’. We got to design and make our own kites!

Mrs Dugan – We were looking at ‘Supertato’. We got to make our own ‘Super’ vegetables!

We also got to dress up as our favourite book characters!

What did we do at home?

Some of us took part in the ‘Families reading together’ sessions. We got to make bookmarks, models and masks. Some of us tried to make our own books at home, with nice and nasty characters. We also made use of our ‘Book Bug’ and ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags. We’ve been doing lots of extra reading at home too!

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World Book Day: George’s Marvellous Medicine

In our workshops, we looked at the book ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ by Roald Dahl. We read an extract from the book and discussed what the book is about and why it’s such a great book. We then made a group ‘medicine’ using a variety of ingredients you could find in a kitchen or bathroom. Everyone got a chance to choose an ingredient and decide how much of it to put in. After putting it in the bowl and  giving it a good mix, the children wrote their ingredient up on the whiteboard to create our group recipe.  Our ‘medicines’ smelled as horrible as they looked!  After creating our group recipe, everyone got the chance to write a recipe of their own. If anyone makes their own ‘medicine’ (under adult  supervision) remember to post a photo on the blog.

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Families Reading Together

Today was our second session of Families Reading Together in our community library. Thank you to Moira, our librarian and our P7 Young Leaders for organising this. There is another session tomorrow after school, we look forward to seeing you then.

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Tom Gates Book Masterclass

For our book masterclass pupils from P4-7joined together to look at Liz Pichon’s book “Tom Gates – Genius Ideas (Mostly)”.

We read an extract of the book together and discussed the style in which Liz writes her books. She uses lots of pictures (or doodles as Tom calls them) and changes her writing to show what the word means. These types of words are called calligrams.

We then set to work creating calligrams our own words. We were very quiet and concentrating extremely hard when we were completing this!

 

At the end we shared our calligrams with each other and gave each other feedback on what we had created. Have a look!

 

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David Goutcher Author Visit!

As part of our World Book Week celebrations, David Goutcher the author of the Spy Quest books shared his journey of becoming an author with P4-7. He shared his inspiring story of how ‘Positive understanding supports confident personal success’ and how it is important to persevere in order to achieve your dreams.

He amazed us by demonstrating how his Sky Quest books use augmented reality through an app to transform the reading experience.

Those children who wanted to purchase a book got a signed copy. We have bought some of these books for our P4-7 class libraries and we have a few signed copies at the office for those of you who would still like to purchase one, on a first come, first served basis (costing £6.99).

A big thank you to David for coming along to share his story with us, and also to Glowworm Books. Thank you also to Brodie’s mum for helping to organise this event.

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