Reception World Book Day

 

Reception World Book Day

We had an amazing week in reception celebrating World Book Day. Over the course of the week, there was a range of activities and events.  Such a great week !

On Monday, the children enjoyed watching a webinar with the Author Lucy Walters as part of the  Authors Aloud UK Awesome Authorfest.

Click here to watch the webinar.

On Tuesday, the class teachers read the story Into the forest by Anthony Browne.

Listen to the story here with your child

This book was chosen for the whole school and each year group completed a range of art and literacy activities.  In reception, we chose to complete a piece of art work inspired by the story. 

On Wednesday morning, Reception participated in the 'We are readers class swap" .

 Reception teamed up with Cedar, Elm and Cherry class and was lucky to have some lovely stories read to us by the wonderful children.

In the afternoon, we decorated our classroom doors in the theme of one of favourite stories. The children really enjoyed helping to decorate them. The whole school completed this and on Friday a winner for each key stage was chosen.

Here are our wonderful door designs!

Alder Class  

Whatever Next by Jill Murphy

Apple Class

Elmer by David McKee

Aspen class 

Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

On Thursday, the big day arrived.. World Book Day 2022! The children were greeted in the playground by the reception team dressed as superheroes. The team chose this theme as it linked with our Supertato story and theme.  

The children thoroughly enjoyed dressing up in their costumes. 

Do you recognise which character they came as?

 Each class chose their three best dressed friends and they got to have their photo taken and then the reception team chose each class's winner. The winner's received a certificate and book token from Miss McFarlane, out school librarian.

Apple Class 

Aspen Class

Alder Class 

The children completed some lovely activities throughout the course of the day.

During the afternoon of World Book Day the children watched 'Broadford's Masked Reader"

There was lots of excitement and even more guesswork. They got there in the end and all managed to guess who the three masked readers were. 

The masked readers were:

 Alfie, Roza and Millen.

A big well done to you three, you were AMAZING!

Just before home time, some of the reception children attended the special book day assembly to show the rest of the school their amazing artwork inspired by the book  Into the forest by Anthony Browne. 

Danni-Ella, Ronnie and Emily stood in front of lots of teachers and children and proudly spoke about their piece of artwork and their favourite part of the story. Their confidence shone through and we are so so very proud of them.

Lastly, on Friday the children attended Broadford's Big Book Swap. Each child in reception was lucky enough to choose a keep a new story book.  They had great fun choosing and then at the end of the day shared their stories on the carpet with their friends.

and.... 

 The winner of the best dressed door in Reception went to 

Aspen class received a certificate, which is being displayed in their classroom window!

We had a fantastic week celebrating world book day. We are already looking forward to next year's events.