Our book corner has proved popular and especially the elephant that lives in there, eager to be sat upon, by keen readers.
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| All bug club books have comprehension questions that need to answered so that children can earn points to spend at their will. |
Alongside Bug Club, we have a range of other activities that children can engage with.
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| Evie has completed a word search based on her spellings for the week. |
As a challenge, Mr Hayman set children to do some 'extreme' reading. We have invited children to get photos of themselves reading in extreme ways. So far we've had:
Upside down reading
Underwater reading
Pyjama reading
Riding camels and reading
Eating and reading
Playing cornets whilst reading.
We aim to set an example for the rest of the school. Send in some photo's of your extreme reading Year 4 and, if appropriate, see it appear on the 'Extreme Reading' blog.
For this blog though....
What's your favourite book and why? Why should we read it? How will our lives change once we have?
We look forward to your recommendations!
My favourite book is the hobbit . you should read it because it is adventurous and a bit scary .This might change your of view of life because Bilbo always finds a better way. MILLIE y4
ReplyDeleteI thought the camel reading was really funny! I wish I thought of something like that although I did once read on the roof of a garage :}
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That is 'extreme' Rhys, Good job...We need photo's though! (So long as it's safe obviously!)
ReplyDeleteMy Favourite book has to be 'Just So Stories' by Rudyard Kipling. It's a collection of stories which tells us how things came to be. For example, the elephant getting his trunk from a crocodile, The Kangaroos' legs and tail from being chased by a Dingo because he wanted to be different or how the Camel got his hump.
It can be a difficult read and I have yet to find the really child friendly version that I read as a boy but, fantastic stories all the same.
Keep reading and please, lets have some more reviews, from parents too! What childhood books would you recommend to todays youth and why?
Millie has a picture of herself reading on our bungalow roof over this half term which I will email in for Year 4's chart. Its within the bungalow roof but with the roof ripped out! As a child I remember reading a lot of the ladybird books and a couple of them I still have, but the stories seem quite harsh compared with the books the children read now. Like Hansel and Gretal and the Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. Perhaps that's why today I do not enjoy reading fiction books?! As that was enough to put any small little girl off! I do have books that I have enjoyed reading mostly Natural Horsemanship books by Authors such as Kelly Marks and Monty Roberts. These books are a good read if you work with or own horses. They could seriously change the way you manage your horses even if you have been around them for years, this way of communicating through body language is interesting but when put into practice works! Without being a pushy parent, Millie wants to work with animals when she is older, horses in particular. I think opening her mind to books like this now, that tune her into the body language of animals to enable her to communicate with them will be a great asset for her to have for work or pleasure. All animals have a body language that we can read and most owners can read this but there is a deeper language that is there to be learnt by us all and I find that fascinating. But only animal lovers would find this interesting lol. Anyone else quite frankly would find my ramble quite boring lol. Millies Mum.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to see Millie is reading in her down time, can you copy and paste photo's into these reply boxes? I've not tried.
DeleteNo, I'm with you on that one. Any dog owners out there, I think, would agree also. You can read their body language and strike up means of communication too. I know with my dog I don't need to speak to get her to sit, go down, away etc and with a tilted head with raised eyebrow, she knows when she's in trouble!
They certainly have a sense and are able to respond to our body language and emotional states. I don't know about horses, can they tune into our emotional states?
Yes they can tune into our emotional states and they react quite sensitively to that. Although you can bond very strongly to horses its not the same as sharing your home with a dog. A dog really does become part of the family doesn't it! Perhaps if you could share your home with a horse the bond would be the same?! I'm not willing to try that! :D
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