Every year 'Children's Book Week' is held in the first week of October. This year's particular focus was on rhyme and rythmn. Alongside this the children made their own books, told each other stories and re-told stories using story props. We drew pictures of our favourite stories, as well .
We organised a day when the children came to school dressed as their favourite book character and brought the book with them. It was great to share all our choices and have time to read each others' books. The children came dressed as a 'Cat in the Hat', 'Charlie and Lola' ' Peter Rabbit from Beatrix Potter tales, as well as numerous fairies, princesses and wizards!! During the day we had a special visit from a storyteller!

At the end of the day the children all went home with a free book pack provided by the Booktrust, with this year's featured book 'Harry and the Dinosaurs go to School by Ian Whybrow and 'The Puffin Book of Fantastic Poems'. We read these in class and activities flowed, from making Plasticine dinosaur models, to reading funny rhymes such as this traditional one, adapted by Michael Rosen.

Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the chocolate biscuits.

You can visit the Booktrust website for reviews, author interviews and special features. It is also a great tool for searching for good children's boks. www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk.

On our 'investigative table' the children and adults have been collecting items linked to the season of Autumn and woodlands. You can look closely at conkers, acorns and Autumn leaves using a magnifying glass, or look at posters, postcards and also books.