Books, Books and more Books

Last week was book week and we did many activities and other stuff which related to books in some way. There were book quiz's run by the House Captains, an author visited our school and she talked about her latest book and how much research you have to do if you want to write or illustrate a book. We also had to do one book week activity, we could choose from filming a scene from a book, drawing a map of a setting from a book, make a model
of something from a book or create 
a piece of art work which related 
to a book. I am going to reflect 
on my experience when I did these 
activities.

The author who came in was Fifi Colston but she also does illustrations and she also enters pieces into WOW. Fifi talked about her life as a child and when she was going through college, and how she just did art every spare minute she had. I found the talk really interesting on how much work and research goes into a small picture book.

The book character parade was fun and it is really cool to see what people have dressed up as and how much effort they have put into it. The only hard thing was trying to quickly write down who have won prizes but the class' go past so fast its nearly impossible.

The book swap was a good idea because you could get new books for free. I know that's what libraries are used for but you can keep these books for as long as you like. The school should do it next year.

The book week activity I did was the art. I drew different things from the book War Dogs. The drawings were a waist up drawing of Winston Churchill, a beagle, RAF symbol and a cross for a dead servicemen. 

That was my blog post for this week come back soon for another one!!!