Tuesday 25 November 2014

Book Week Scotland



Hello again!

Today we have been reading our favourite Bookbug books to pupils in Mrs Rusbridge's class P2/3.

We had a great time and they were very good listeners. After reading, we all drew a picture from our favourite book and then we cast our vote for the Scottish Children's Book Awards. We're not going to tell you which book got most votes as there is still one class to vote!

In our last blog we mentioned we had been writing book reviews with Miss Scott's class P2B. We have been busy typing up their reviews so here are a few samples of the fantastic work they produced.

Scarlett wrote about Robot Rumpus by Sean Taylor and Ross Collins:-

"I liked Robot Rumpus because it was funny, colourful and the dog was scared of the robots.  My favourite robot was Cook-Bot.  My funniest robot was Clean-Bot because he washed the dishes and he got a bit crazy with the squirting!

I think this book deserves to be a 10 out of 10.  My most exciting part of the book was when the robots were going all over the place!  The funniest part was when Mum and Dad come home and found the place a mess!

If I was the author I would change the bit at the start to the girl saying “I’m scared Mummy and Daddy.”  I thought Dress-Bot wasn’t that funny because he wasn’t really in the book that much.  If I recommended this book to other people I would say its ages are 6-7 years old. The words I would use to describe this book are funny and exciting."

By Scarlett Lenad P2B

We hope you enjoyed reading Scarlett’s review.  Look out for more reviews in our next blog.

Love from your friendly P6 readers

 
 
 
 

Readathon


Calling all readers!  Readathon has been launched! 

Calling all sponsors!  Support your child, grandchild, niece, nephew by sponsoring them to read throughout the month of December and raise money to modernise our school library.

Our favourite local author and poet, Diana Hendry, spoke to us at assembly on Monday this week and talked about the importance of her local library as she was growing up with a great hunger for books.  She showed us a special book she has had for a very long time and also shared a secret with us – sorry we can’t tell!

Our library is important to us – we have a fantastic and wide-ranging choice of new novels.  The only problem is that the library is not a particularly inspiring place to read.  We want to paint it brightly and fill it with lovely colourful shelving and comfy seats.  So why not help us raise some funds to change this environment and encourage even more readers.

Ps.  We really would love some new books for Christmas!

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Shared reading with the P2

In  October, P6A pupils read three books  to the P2 pupils.  After we read to the children, we took a vote. The most popular book was Princess Penelope and the Runaway Kitten.  It was the book most enjoyed  out of the three.

The two other books were Lost for Words and Robot Rumpus. We had to calculate the scores. The P6A pupils still have to read to two other classes:-  P2/3 and P2A. We are looking forward to reading with the other two classes.

Tomorrow, we will be working with pupils from Miss Scott's class to write reviews of these books.

Look out for our next blog, when we will share some of the reviews with you.

By Fraser Dempster and Ciaran Barr P6A/Book Club.