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Open in new tab The Daily Joker by Gareth P. Jones & Rachel Delahaye
As it’s Red Nose Day, my book pick is one that will bring comic relief…
The Daily Joker has a belly-wobbling joke for every single day of the year and is packed with hilarious illustrations from Nigel Parkinson who also illustrattes the Beano. Packed with information about World Celebration Days throughout the year (did you know tomorrow is World Happiness Day?) and hits and tips on how to create your own rib-tickling jokes, this is a must for wannabe comedians, and anyone struggling to find their smile. If the jokes don’t make you laugh, at least they’ll give you something to groan about.
Postcode Fun
Today, Year 2 have been learning all about postcodes as part of their geography learning. They used iPads to find out popular tourist attractions at certain postcodes as well as learning about the road names around Cannon Park and how to search for a location using a postcode.
The Children’s Bookshows
To celebrate World Book Day, this week children have had the opportunity to watch author-illustratotrs and poets at work, and put questions to them to be answered.
All of Key Stage 2 were able to see Michael Rosen (or Raisin as we now know him) on Wednesday morning, who entertained us with some of his best loved performance poetry, showing how much fun it is to play with language, rhythmn and rhyme.
On Wednesday afternoon, Upper Key Stage 2 were inspired by Kwame Alexander, an award-winning poet, who read us his very moving book, The Undefeated. His advice to improve your writing? “Read, read and then read.”
Here’s a few of the children’s thoughts from Year 5 on Michael and Kwame…
I thought that the authors were very inspirational and wrote some very good poems and stories; they were remarkable!
I think that they were really funny and they made me want to write more poems.
I liked the sessions, and I really want to have more. They inspired me!
On Friday morning, children from Years 2 -4 were able to see award-winning author-illustrator and environmemtalist, Neal Layton. He wowed us with a live illustration reading us Stanley’s Stick He then talked to us about trees and how important they are to us, and we saw his sketch books that he used to create The Tree which only has 40 words!
On Friday afternoon, children from Key Stage got to see author illustrator Jo Empson, take part in a live draw along, and see her read her brand new story – it isn’t publishing until January next year! How lucky we are!
This is what the children thought, and created from Friday’s events.
Neal is very good at drawing and I like that he likes nature.
We enjoyed Jo Emspon. We both tried to draw the lion.
If you missed an author for your year group, don’t worry, you can watch again using the links below.
Jo Empson for Years 1 and 2: https://youtu.be/tKQ0aQHQmwI
Neal Layton for Years 2, 3 and 4: https://youtu.be/dnHZCkaju-w
Michael Rosen for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6: https://youtu.be/lu5GDOYqorc
Kwame Alexander for Years 5 and 6: https://youtu.be/y3t5YMdV4NY