ARCHIVED Year 1 Blog 2022-24

 On Tuesday after break, Freshwater class were visited by the author and illustrator, Simon Murray. Simon talked to us about being an author and how he develops his ideas and gets plots for his stories.  He then did a drawing workshop with us. We were drawing the main monster character from one of his books ‘Icky Doo Dah’. Have a look at some of our fantastic drawings and how we progressed through the drawing as a class together.  Simon kindly gave the class its very own book of his. Freshwater class were gifted with the book, ‘Icky Doo Dah and the Fairground Fiasco’ which is a follow on from today. Simon will be back on Thursday to give out books. A letter has been sent home with information about how you can purchase any of Simon’s books. 

 Today we had a visit from Estelle Baker who came and shared with us lots of old toys. We looked at a variety of toys including zoetropes, Jack in the box, clockwork toys  and pull along toys. We found out that a lot of very old toys were made out of wood and metal. They didn’t need batteries to work and we had to do the work by pulling, pushing or spinning the toys. We had great fun playing with all the old toys.