Year 3 had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day this year. Everyone came to school dressed up as their favourite book character and it was brilliant to see so many creative costumes. More importantly, everyone got involved in the activities and shared their love of reading.
This year our class book was How to Be a Lion by Ed Vere. The story explores important themes about identity and reminds us that there isn’t just one way to be something. Even though we might belong to the same group, we can all still be different in our own ways.
After reading the book, we had a fun discussion about what it means to ‘be a Year 3.’ We came up with some ideas together- like supporting Leeds United because it’s our local football team and liking the colours blue, purple and yellow because they are our school colours. Not everyone agreed with all of these! That helped us realise something important: we might all be the same in some ways e.g. we are Year 3, we are 7/8 years old and we live in England, but we are also all different e.g. we have different heights, backgrounds, religions and favourite subjects and interests.
Inspired by the story, we designed our own lions. At first they all looked the same, but when you looked closely at their manes, they were all unique. Each mane was filled with different colours and words that described who we are as individuals.
To finish our wonderful World Book Day, we visited Year 2 and shared some stories with them. Then we ended the day with a cosy hot chocolate while enjoying some more reading together.
What a brilliant day celebrating books, creativity and what makes each of us unique!
