On Thursday, it was World Book Day. This was a huge success at St James, with children arriving in fantastic costumes and really showing their love for reading throughout the day.
Year 5 began by learning about our whole school book (How To Be A Lion). We uncovered the hidden messages in the book:
You can be friends with whoever you want – Honey
You don’t have to be the same as everyone else because you think that’s the right thing to do – Elara
Everyone is different and that’s ok – Kiara
The children then went on to do a variety of tasks, such as: creating their own lions to show their individuality; writing a poem about the friendship between the lion and the duck; and rewriting the book with a different, unlikely friendship between two different animals.
Then, we started our new class novel…
The Forest Of Doom!
The children have absolutely loved diving into this fighting fantasy adventure, where we are the heroes and we decide our own journey through the book (whether that be good or bad we’re yet to see). We’re going to travel into the forest once a day for our class novel time, so parents be ready to hear about the monsters we’ve faced!
Finally, we practised our poem to perform in collective worship (Railway Carriage) and enjoyed reading books in our school library.
