Friday, 4 March 2016

World Book Day

Well done everyone for your wonderful World Book Day costumes!  In Class 1 we had lots of fun: in the morning we read 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and made a huge map of the journey.  We then turned our map into a graphic musical score and used it to create a musical version of the story - it was wonderful!

In the afternoon we used one of our favourite stories - 'Lost and Found' by Oliver Jeffers - as the inspiration for our activities.  We made clay penguins, retold the story in our own words with coloured pictures and used plastic junk modelling to make our own boats.  We even tested if they would float!  We drew penguins using instructions written by Oliver Jeffers - see if you can draw one at home with this link:  http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/jun/27/how-to-draw-penguins-oliver-jeffers#/?picture=375870801&index=0

We all had lots of fun, and I think some of our grown ups enjoyed the activities as much as the children did!  I hope you enjoy the photographs below - have a lovely weekend, everyone!



discovering





testing our boats



We loved having visitors to our classroom!



Drawing penguins with instructions from Oliver Jeffers

Will it float?

The boy and the penguin sailed to the South Pole.





Making the bear's cave for our map
making maps

telling our own stories with finger puppets

making penguins with clay

using tools to shape the clay

using junk to make boats

adding texture to our penguins

a family project!
 

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