Blog by Tag: Literacy

For World Book Day we joined a live stream event with Liz Pichon (an author/illustrator) who read from her most recent Tom Gates’ book. She also taught us how to draw in her style. We were really pleased with our attempts and have made a class book with our drawings.

We enjoyed the book character quiz around the school. Thank you Year 5’s who helped us too! 

Today we celebrated World Book Day by going on a book hunt! We had to find different book characters hidden around the school. There were 53 in total to find and recognise! Some were books we remembered from when we were younger. We loved seeing some of our favourite characters!

On World Book Day, year 3 came to read to us. We really enjoyed having an older friend to read any book we chose. The children got on so well that we have invited them back.

We enjoyed talking about the book characters. Look at our amazing costumes! 

Thank you to Year 5 for sharing books with us. We enjoyed listening to stories that you read.

Year 6 had a busy day today focussing on books and reading. We began the day looking at our various costumes before working on the book picture quiz around school. After that we joined Year 2 to share our favourite books with them. In the afternoon we combined reading with PE when we completed our…

What an exciting World Book Day we have had! Our costumes were amazing. Can you recognise any characters from the class photo? We started the day hearing all about the first books and when they were published. We then designed a footprint showing our favourite books to display in school to lead…

After reading The Little Red Hen, we looked at different types of bread. We looked at the texture,  the colour and what we thought about each one. 

In a few weeks, we are going to write a fantasy story so today we looked at different household objects and discussed how they could be incorporated into our stories with magical powers. We had lots of ideas.

We enjoyed exploring the classroom for bossy verbs, these were spotted through our instructions.

We really enjoyed making our own adventures with Traction Man.