Melling Primary School
WORLD BOOK DAY THURSDAY 7TH MARCH
WORLD BOOK DAY THURSDAY 7th MARCH
Poetry is valuable for all of us for many reasons: it was invented as a good way to remember important things and interesting things. It still does this, through its musical sounds, rhythms and rhymes. It’s also a good way to play with the language around us and playing pleases us. Life goes by very quickly. Poetry is a way of stopping things for a moment and pointing out something to us. It gives us time to reflect. Michael Rosen
Dear Parents/Carers
WORLD BOOK DAY IS ON THURSDAY 7TH MARCH and as usual we will be celebrating this with our children. We are looking to do something different this year and our theme for World Book Day will be a focus on POETRY. We want to encourage children to develop an interest in a wide range of poetry and to be able to perform a poem with expression, feeling and enthusiasm.
There are all sorts of poems that children should be introduced to: limericks, little two line jingles, rhyming, non-rhyming, using words to paint a picture, using words to express emotions, telling a story etc Poetry books are full of exciting short stories or glimpses of the world from someone else’s point of view.
BOOK CHARACTER COSTUME SWAP:
If your child would like to come dressed as a book character on the day – they are welcome to do so. However, we are not requesting that all children do this – so please don’t spend money on buying a new outfit! The week before World Book Day (26th Feb), if you have any Book Day costumes that you now longer require – there will be a rail underneath the canopy. Hopefully this can be used as a swapping point – place a costume on and if you need a new costume for your child take one off! In the meantime do try and read some poetry with your child. Have a look at the class page section of the website for the poetry pages.