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Blog to bring you up-to-date news from our school.Monday, 7 June 2010
Book Week 2010
The activities included:
- making bookmarksDressing Up
- visiting the local library
- writing a profile of a character from a book (on the computer)
- having a presentation from Nick Toczeck (a published author)
- a Book Quiz
- dressing up as a book character
- visiting the book sale in school
- taking part in a short story-writing competition
The whole school was invited to dress up as chacaters from books and, on the Friday, the whole school was filled with magical and wondersful characters: wizards, witches, warriors, cowboys, Dorothys, Harry Potters, Red Ridding-Hoods, Gandalfs and even a toad. Some people made a huge effort and some of the Red Ridding-Hoods even had real cakes. (But not for long!)
Library Visit
After lunch we walked to Mapperley Library. When we arrived we were able to look at the books and how they were organised. The librarian talked to us about the library and about the different sorts of books and other things you can borrow from the library then gave us a "true or false" quiz. You can borrow over twenty books at a time from our library. We also had time to choose a book and spend some time reading it.
Nick Toczeck
Nick Toczeck was really funny. It was good to be able to meet a successful author and to work with him in class. He read us some of his poems - which were very rhythmical and were full of rhymes and pace. He used a camel puppet (called Humphrey) and did some magic tricks to help keep everyone's attention.
Book Quiz
To end the Book Week, the whole school had a quiz. There were questions about book characters, authors, books by Roald Dahl, traditional stories, nursery rhymes and a film story featuring Paddington Bear.
Book week was excellent and everyone was very pleased that Mrs Kilbane (helped by some of the other teachers) had organised it.
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