I hope your first day back wasn't too taxing and that you've discovered an animal from your list you want to know more about as we have more tasks designed to challenge your thinking and whirr those cogs in your brain. A book where the pictures can be pored over and offering lots of opportunity to think about the nuances of the story and feed readers’ imaginations. I will be adding more to have a go at but whilst the others log in you could try some of the mathletics games. Told primarily in a graphic novel format, the text shares information and back story with the reader.

I attended a live story telling session by David himself at Ilford library where he read the book to many kids today. Don't forget to tell her all about the different animals that helped you and use your emotion vocabulary to tell her how scared you were each time. All in all, a lovely title, one I would recommend to picture-book readers looking for stories featuring aliens, discovery, and family. I have started to redecorate my kitchen and I will carry on on Friday when it is the bank holiday for VE Day.More time passed and Heather came to the rock less often, but occasionally went with a flashlight to shine it into the sky. She waits the rest of her life for a second visit, and when it finally comes, she is prepared to set off for his home world.

She particularly liked the 'wordless' spreads allowing us to convey our own thoughts and meanings on to what was going on. Could you draw a sequence of pictures to show how you have grown (or how you might grow in the future)?David Litchfield, με τίτλο «Τη νύχτα που τα φώτα άναψαν» κυκλοφορεί στην Ελλάδα (εκδόσεις Μικρή Σελήνη) ταυτόχρονα με το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο και είναι εντυπωσιακό! The strength of this book is its storytelling (love the on and off battery pages) and its wonderful illustrations. The artwork is absolutely enchanting, utilizing a gorgeous color palette, beautifully stylized characters and settings, and the occasional wordless page or two, with a paneled, comic-book style that is immensely expressive. Children will examine the circular shape of this story and go on to create their own extended narrative following this pattern. Well done if you have been on Mathletics or Reading Eggs, I see you having a go at the questions and quizzes.

In this new story, best-selling author and illustrator David Litchfield travels into space and through time to show that what we are looking for might be closer than we think. Stunning and I would highly recommend this book to everyone in need for a beautiful book filled with family and stars. We used one corrugated sheet, but another on the back of a notebook and the second was much smoother. But they soon have to say goodbye and although Heather goes back to Cotton Rock many times, the alien never comes back… Until one day, many years later, it does – and then Heather must decide whether or not her place really is among the stars. I feel very lucky to have worked with a number of brilliant authors as well as having the opportunity to create my own stories.This Catch-Up Writing Root begins with children discovering a mysterious rucksack in the classroom filled with clues about the story and the main character. A bar model is sharing out/dividing equally from the whole number/group of objects into the 'parts' of a fraction.