{"id":21214,"date":"2024-11-22T19:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/?p=21214"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T20:17:51","slug":"p6b-book-week-scotland-wb-19-11-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/2024\/11\/22\/p6b-book-week-scotland-wb-19-11-24\/","title":{"rendered":"P6B &#8211; Book Week Scotland WB 18.11.24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n<p>We hope you are all very well.<\/p>\n<p>What a fantastic week it has been! Book week is always lots of fun and this one was simply brilliant!\ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<p>The whole school worked on the book The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and learned, according to their age and level, great things about the book and its author.<\/p>\n<p>Our highlights were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spelling words from The Lorax.<\/li>\n<li>Art activities about The Lorax : draw along the Lorax and Frame your own Truffula trees.<\/li>\n<li>Dramatisation of the story of The Lorax.<\/li>\n<li>Baking Truffulas.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0One, two and three steps word problems.<\/li>\n<li>Daily collaborative stories, where every class had to write a chapter for a different book every day as a whole class. We can&#8217;t wait to read those books!\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udcda<\/li>\n<li>Reading to our new Reading Buddies from P2 who visited our classroom and were delighted to have us reading for and with them.<\/li>\n<li>Watching the brilliant Axel Scheffler, the Gruffalo&#8217;s creator, explaining how he works\u00a0 with Julia Donaldson in the illustration of her books and helping us to understand the whole process of publishing a book.\ud83d\udc17 He also explained why he prefers to draw fictional\u00a0 creatures and said that he has been an illustrator since he was in his twenties. The children considered this Author&#8217;s live edition extremely interesting and said that they had learned a lot with it!<\/li>\n<li>Creating our own alternative covers for The Lorax, having in mind what we have learned the book is about : Deforestation, the environment and protection of Nature.\ud83c\udfd4\ud83c\udf33<\/li>\n<li>Learning again about St. Margaret, the Patroness Saint of Scotland, her life and how she became so much loved by people here.<\/li>\n<li>We also had parents and carers visiting for Share the Learning and it&#8217;s always enjoyable to show them a sample of our work.\ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>To add to the fun and make it different, each afternoon the children got to go to one of the other Upper Area&#8217;s classroom to have a lesson with Mrs Lea, Miss McGregor and Mr McGurn about The Lorax as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t have enough time to choose the Hot Chocolate of this week but will let you know next week about both!\ud83e\udd70<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now! We wish you all a great weekend and hope you&#8217;ll all be safe in this cold and maybe snowy weather!\ud83c\udf28\u2744<\/p>\n<p>P6B and Mrs Valente\ud83d\ude18\ud83d\ude18<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, We hope you are all very well. What a fantastic week it has been! Book week is always lots of fun and this one was simply brilliant!\ud83d\ude03 The whole school worked on the book The Lorax by Dr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/2024\/11\/22\/p6b-book-week-scotland-wb-19-11-24\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21214"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21214\/revisions\/21279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}