This week we will be joining in with the World Book Day celebrations on Thursday. There are a few activities going on throughout this week that you may want to access and join in with from home.
Our first is our Virtual Book Fair that we launched last week. You can find a range of titles for each year group and you are also able to email Louise to request any particular books that are not listed as she may be able to supply them too. Each sale will help to provide free books to school and also helps to support local independent bookshops. There is also a section called ‘Donate a book to school’ where each class teacher has put together a wishlist for their classroom should anyone wish to donate a book.
The second thing we would like to challenge everyone to take part in is a book hunt. Throughout this week we would like you to choose one of your favourite books and make some sort of picture or model to represent that book. It could be a picture of something from the book, a model you have made from Lego or recycled materials, one of your teddies dressed at a character, however creative you’d like to be. When you have made your picture or model we would like you to display them in your window on Thursday so if any children from our school community are out for a walk they can look out for and spot as many book pictures as they can. (If you struggle to make something you could just put your favourite book in your window for others to spot.) We’d love to see a photo of whatever you create and do let us know how many book windows you spot!
Bournville BookFest for Schools has some wonderful activities taking place all week. Here’s author and illustrator Nick Sharrat to explain more.
Check out this link to see the programme for the week, a new video will be added each day at 9am. Year 3 – Look out for Steven Butler and Seven Lenton on Wednesday the author and illustrator of The Nothing to See Here Hotel – one of our favourites so far this year. You will also see videos from Michael Rosen and Benjamin Zephaniah, Katherine Rundell, Tom Palmer and the Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell.
Here’s a special resource pack for Parents and children at home BookFest-Resource-Pack-Parents
The World Book Day Website itself also has lots of links and resources. There are the ‘Share a story Live events’ Share a story
Books That Make you LOL on Wednesday 3rd March at 10:30am suitable age 7+
Words and Picture: Bringing Books to Life on Thursday 4th March at 10:30 am age 4+
Books and the Real World on Friday 5th March at 10:30am age 9+
Share a story corner with video links for a range of picture books for younger children
Watch masterclasses from the World Book Day £1 book authors in the Author and Illustrator Academy
Take a look inside the World Book Day books here All children will receive their World Book Day token on Monday 8th March.
You may also like to visit the virtual libraries below. These are wonderful resources created by @eenalol on twitter and author of ‘A little but a lot blog’ alittlebutalot.com. Each contain links to you tube videos of the authors reading either their full books or a chapter or two to entice you. If you find a book you like the sound of it may be in our book fair.
Year 5 and 6-books-digital-library
