Welcome to day 3 of St Anthony’s Summer Reading Challenge! I hope you loved the Micheal Rosen day yesterday! If you haven’t completed the survey for your favourite Rosen poem please do so now so that I can share the results with everyone!
IMPORTANT – Remember the reading challenge is for the whole of the summer and not just this week. Sign up so that you can access lots of books for free through the links below.
The Summer Reading challenge has gone digital this year to ensure children can still take part even though they’re unable to visit our libraries just now. Here are some details of this year’s challenge and information on how to join in:
Join the #SillySquad2020 by signing up at sillysquad.org.uk
Check out your West Lothian libraries webpage https://bit.ly/WLlibrariesSRC2020 and search for books you can borrow from us at https://bit.ly/BBoxChildren.
FOR OUR YOUNGER READERS
Everybody loves Katie Morag stories! Some of you may have loved your Katie Morag and Island life topic too!
Here are some of the most popular Katie Morag stories for you to read along to.
https://youtu.be/A1q-2g1c6HY
https://youtu.be/thZkbjJSarg
ALL AGES OF CHILDREN WILL ENJOY THIS!
Children, here is some exciting news! Friends of mine live on an island in Scotland just like Katie Morag and they have made this video just for St Anthony’s primary school! Betsy- Mae is a real life Katie Morag and she is going to tell you what it is like to live on the Isle of Eigg! I hope you enjoy!
- Now that you have read some Katie Morag stories and seen Betsy -Mae give you a tour of her island, write the things that you think are the same for Betsy Mae and Katie Morag and write things that you think are different.
- What is different about Betsy-Mae’s school and yours?
- Write the things you think would be great about living on the Isle of Eigg.
- Write the things you would not like about living on the Isle of Eigg
- Draw a picture of you and Betsy -Mae on her quad bike, zooming through the island, try to include pictures of all the things Betsy – Mae told you about.
REMEMBER TO POST YOUR WORK ON TWITTER PLEASE
Now something for older children in our school. Here is a special appearance by my husband who would like to talk to you a little about why he became a writer and is going to read a poem by his favourite poet, playwright and writer, T.S.Eliot. P.S I think Mr Llaza should be first in the queue for a haircut on the 15th of July, don’t you 🙂
Your challenge is to find out which character in Sherlock Holmes inspired T.S Eliot to write Macavity the mystery cat. Post your answers on Twitter, Teams or the Blog please.
Here the full poem ‘Macavity the Mystery Cat’ by T.S Eliot
Here is the famous west end musical CATS showing the character of Macavity
Thank you for taking part in St Anthony’s Summer Reading Challenge! If you spent most of your time outdoors enjoying the sunshine yesterday, you might want to look at yesterday’s challenge and complete that too.
Have a great day and make sure you KEEP READING!
Mrs Llaza x
