World Book Day! 📚⭐

“I love reading because I have a big smile on my face” Maddie said! Emerald Class love to hear stories, share books and read!

We have had a wonderful, busy and fun day celebrating World Book Day! What fun we had dressing up as our favourite book characters or wearing comfortable pyjamas!

A few weeks ago, Thomas said “it’s amazing what you learn from a book” and we absolutely love this phrase! It has become a class motto! Today, Emerald Class reflected on the importance of reading and I was amazed with the discussion we had in Year One. Here are some of the things said about reading!

We talked about why learning to read is so important:

“Reading is important to help with our writing!” Maisie

William added “reading can help us in maths too!”

“We want to get better at reading” Olivia

We also explored why we enjoy reading:

“I like reading because I like to learn facts and how to learn about the world. We stretch ourselves” Daisy

“I like reading to get super clever” Jaxon

“I like to read because I learn lots of words” Darcie

“I feel calm when I have a story” James

“Reading is fun” Annabel

Well done Emeralds! It was such a joy to hear that you have such enjoyment for reading! 😊❤

We had lots of fun activities on World Book Day! We were visited by Cinderella and we loved sharing our love of books with her! We were even treated to a story and a beautiful singalong! We had a magical time! Thank you Cinderella for coming to visit us, we loved it!

We were also visited by Mrs Noden! Thank you for sharing two wonderful stories with us! We loved the story ‘Aliens in Underpants’, it made us laugh so much! Emerald Class also loved hearing the story and joining in with the classic, Hairy Maclary!

We also had lots of fun reading and sharing the books we brought in from home as well as some of our favourites from our class library. We also used the laptops to complete some fun phonics games where we had to work really hard to apply the sounds we are learning. Well done Emeralds! Emerald Class also completed a fun book scavenger hunt to spot lots of different characters and settings. Well done for finding them Emerald Class! We also completed word searches, made wanted posters for characters such as Goldilocks and we also loved to stop, drop and roll for reading times throughout the morning! I think it’s fair to say we have had a great day celebrating World Book Day and sharing all the things we love and adore about reading! Great work Emeralds!