This week has been exciting for P2/3 as it was Book Week! Our week began with our assembly on Monday where Miss MacPhail shared some of her favourite books with us. We then went back to class feeling very inspired and excited to read our ‘drop everything and read’ (DEAR) time books. We also decorated our classroom door with a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory theme using different colours and patterns.

Carrying on from our Wonka topic we also wrote some letters to Willy Wonka convincing him to make our chocolate bars in his factory. We were encouraged to think about the structure and purpose of the letter, a description of our chocolate and why he should make it. On Friday we played a game of character charades. We were given a character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which we had to keep secret and act out for the rest of the class to guess. The children were all so engaged with this and the class was roaring with laughter!

Our book week ended with P3 going through to Miss Duffy’s room where we were very lucky as we got to taste different types of bread from around the world. This was inspired by our read, write, count bags which contained an atlas. P2 read ”Open Very Carefully” by Nick Bromley with Miss Gill and then went on a hunt around the school for clues which the crocodile had left us. Our hunt ended back in the P2/3 classroom and we arrived to find some read, write, count bags waiting for us. We were all very excited to open them and explore the goodies inside. Overall we had a great book week!