Arbury Primary School - Class Reading Books Spring 1

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Class Reading Books Spring 1

7th January 2020

Each class has been given a carefully chosen book to enjoy reading for this half term. Our aim is to a) choose fabulous books that the children (and staff) are going to love, and b) to help children develop their vocabulary by reading and rereading high quality texts. The children will be using these books to look closely at characters, plots, motivation, authors' use of words and settings. There are 15 copies of each book in each class.

Do help your child by talking to them about their special story. Ask them what they have learned in class about their book. You could even go to the library and borrow a copy to enjoy at home.

We will be choosing another set of excellent children's books next half term.

Reception are reading Prince Cinders by Babette Cole. It links with their Once Upon A Time topic.

Year 1 are reading Violet The Pilot by Steve Breen. It links with their Flight topic.

Year 2 are reading Castles by Colin Thompson. It links with their Castles topic.

Year 3 are reading On A Beam Of Light (A Story Of Albert Einstein) by Jennifer Berne. It links with their Light topic.

Year 4 are reading The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo. It links with their Egyptians topic.

Year 5 are reading Destination Space by Christophe Englert. It links with their Earth And Space topic.

Year 6 are reading 'If..A Mind Bending Way of Looking At Big Ideas and Numbers' by David Smith. It links with their Evolution topic.

Tuesday picturebook assemblies

For the first few weeks of this half-term, we will be looking at the books in the ‘hat’ trilogy by Jon Klassen. These books are great fun, and written in a minimalist, humorous style. We are very much enjoying them so far.