Friday, May 27, 2011
23rd to 27th May
We have been enjoying Book and Activity Week at school this week.
This ended today, as we broke up for half-term holidays, with a day when everyone dressed up as a book character. Lots of people made a fantastic effort with costumes. We also shared a book quiz in the hall for the whole school this morning with rounds on Traditional Tales, Mr. Men books, the stories of Roald Dahl and an observation/listening round. At the end of the quiz there were little prizes for the winning team and also prizes for the children who won our Book Week story writing competition. This afternoon we watched a video of the story entitled Five Children and It with our other Year 5 class.
Earlier in the week we had a range of activities related to books. We did a full design technology project on bookmarks. We examined a collection of bookmarks and identified the key features as well as features that made individual bookmarks special. We then designed our own bookmarks specifically to match an individual book. After making the bookmarks, we evaluated them against our design criteria and also thought about the way we had approached the task.
We have also made our own version of book covers. We chose to do this either for The Iron Man or for Stig of the Dump, both of which have been class books this year. We thought carefully about what information should be presented, how to make the lettering good and how to make a strong illustration.
This ended today, as we broke up for half-term holidays, with a day when everyone dressed up as a book character. Lots of people made a fantastic effort with costumes. We also shared a book quiz in the hall for the whole school this morning with rounds on Traditional Tales, Mr. Men books, the stories of Roald Dahl and an observation/listening round. At the end of the quiz there were little prizes for the winning team and also prizes for the children who won our Book Week story writing competition. This afternoon we watched a video of the story entitled Five Children and It with our other Year 5 class.
Earlier in the week we had a range of activities related to books. We did a full design technology project on bookmarks. We examined a collection of bookmarks and identified the key features as well as features that made individual bookmarks special. We then designed our own bookmarks specifically to match an individual book. After making the bookmarks, we evaluated them against our design criteria and also thought about the way we had approached the task.
We have also made our own version of book covers. We chose to do this either for The Iron Man or for Stig of the Dump, both of which have been class books this year. We thought carefully about what information should be presented, how to make the lettering good and how to make a strong illustration.
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