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National Story Telling Week
World Book Day
Boom Reader
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This week is Nation Story Telling Week. We are celebrating this in school by going off time-table in our English lessons. We have all read ‘The Truly Magic Porridge Pot’ and had some of that magic porridge come to our classrooms! The buzz around the school this morning has been amazing. Children are following trails and finding the magic. All children by the end of the week will have created their own story based on this text. I cannot wait to see the results!
World Book Day – Thursday 2nd March
ALICE IN WONDERLAND THEME
We are inviting all children to come in dressed as something from Alice in Wonderland. You do not need to buy anything for this, but you could make a prop. This might be a home made clock, or attached some playing cards, or just have some long stripy socks! You may even just want some cat whiskers painted on. We cannot wait to see what characters we get. On the actual day, we will be using extracts and images to challenge our inference skills. We will all be reading a section of the story.
We are very lucky that the PTFA have paid for the West End in Schools to come and complete an Alice in Wonderland workshop with every child. Each child will get an hour to complete some dance and drama. This will happen on the 1st, the day before World Book Day.
On the 3rd, we are going to have a ‘Big Book Share’. If anyone has any copies of Alice in Wonderland, we invite you to send them in with your child. Some of these may be very old and they won’t be touched by the children. What we are aspiring to do is see how many copies we can get and create a display on the tables in the hall. This will highlight to the children just how many version, copies, prints do happen. I think we often take for granted that they see one book and think that is it. Hopefully this activity will inspire ideas around printing, book production and what their personal preferences are when they are drawn to a book.
It would be lovely if before hand the children could watch or read the story as a family.
