Category: Our Learning Stories

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.

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!

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.