Today World Book Day came to Chilcote. The year 4 staff dressed up in their ancient Egyptian costumes for the day. This was to show characters from 'Flat Stanley' our class novel.
The children of year 4 dressed up in a range of different costumes. Thank you parents, for your support with the day!
Firstly, the children had a whole-school assembly with a guest speaker, Serena Arthur, who is Birmingham's Young Poet Laureate. The school council asked her some pertinent questions. The children learnt a lot from this experience.
Secondly, the children took part in a circle time where they showed each other their costumes. Then, they explained who they were and why. Also, they explained what their favourite book was and why they liked it.
After that, the children looked at ways to improve their own ability to perform poetry out loud. This was because the main focus of their learning for World Book Day was to recite poetry off by heart and improve poetry performance. The children recorded ways that they could perform poetry in an outstanding way.
Following this, the children looked at their focus poem for the day. This was 'Chocolate Cake' written by Michael Rosen, who is a phenomenal poet with countless children's poems to his name.
Next, year 4 watched Michael Rosen perform the poem 'Chocolate cake', which was brilliant! Go to his website and you can watch it too! He is an amazing performer of poetry and the children learnt a lot from watching him.
Then, the children picked their favourite part from the poem and practised performing it, just like Michael Rosen. They tried to change their volume, pace, expression and to add in actions with their arms and hands.
Finally, they swapped with year 3 and performed their poems to the children in 3 Beech. Year 3 showed us their poem 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' by Edward Lear, and they performed the poem as a class too. Thank you year 3 and well done on your fantastic performance!!!
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