World Book Day!
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The preschool children have been very excited on the build up to World Book day with so many of the children letting their friends know what they were planning to dress up as. Isaac and his friends were discussing what superhero they were going to be and which one was their favourite over one lunch time. Max was a little more secretive and told his friends, “It’s a secret, you will just have to wait”, with a smile on his face. Daniel tried to encourage him, “Tell us, tell us” but Max was keeping his secret close to his chest.
On the day, the preschool children couldn’t wait to get inside to show off their outfits to their friends and enjoyed many activities including making their own version of the story book ‘The very hungry caterpillar’. Ada was very proud of what she had created and made sure that she showed it to all of the teachers as well as her friends. Cypher, Joshua and Jasper all took their books outside to the garden and chose to do their drawing in the tree house whilst Flo and Sadie were doing observational drawings of the trees in their books.
At group time, the children also enjoyed learning about authors and illustrators. This is something that is discussed when the new book of the month is introduced and Youcef very quickly and excitedly called out, “I know the author writes the story” and Sophie continued, “The illustrator writes the pictures for the book”. Rowan let out a little chuckle and suggested, “No you mean they draw the pictures, not write them”.
The toddlers loved world book day, spending the entire week building up to it by doing lots of inspired activities. Some of the toddlers were very excited at the idea of making their own story and got to work straight away. George flipped opened and closed his book, turning it around and looking at the pages as if deciding where to start his story. Emily pick up a pen and opened the book, decidedly making lots of marks, telling her story with circles and swirls. Arthur and Cooper took a different approach and made small lines and dots with an assortment of colours.
The children loved getting to read and explore many stories and story sacks, repeatedly choosing to look at the ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ story sacks. They loved telling the different stories through the props and enjoyed searching the pages to find the characters. When the day arrived, we had quite a few children dressed up and even those who weren’t were able to sift through the dressing up clothes to find an outfit to show off to their friends. They had a great time dressing up and looking at each other’s costumes. There was Santiago dressed as Spiderman who showed off how fast he could be with his extra powers, Blair serenading everybody as Elsa, George wrapped in bandages as Mr Bump, Leo made sure everyone heard him as he took on the role of his dinosaur costume, and Arlo.W who took a more laid back approach and wore a Jane Austin t-shirt. Gabriel spent the day as The Highway Rat and ran around accosting people with his sword while declaring “I’m.. THE HIGHWAY RAT!”
The under twos also celebrated World Book Day and came fully kitted out in their amazing costumes, from The Hungry Caterpillar to Peter Rabbit and everything in between! The children enjoyed investigating their friends outfits, squishing Sienna’s many caterpillar legs, and watching Matilde’s Snow White dress twirl as she span in circles. Leo the Tiger particularly loved singing a special rendition of ‘row, row your boat’ in which the children roared like a tiger at the end of the song!
