Year 5 Fiction - Type Up Your Book Review & Design a Cover (Weekend homework)

We are taking part in the Books Go Global wiki, sharing our favourite books. Your weekend homework is in two parts:

1. Type up a third draft of your book review and e-mail it to baldworm@baldworm.co.uk. Don't forget to spellcheck your work and read it through before you hand it in. No computer access? Write up your work on A4.

2. On blank A4, create an illustration we can post alongside your book review, e.g. if you were reviewing 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' you might use pencil crayons to create a picture of Aslan or the White Witch.

Due: Monday

Year 5 Non-fiction - Book Review

We're beginning our work for the Books Go Global! book review wiki. We are going to share our opinions about books with girls on the other side of the world. This is an example of how we can use Web 2.0 programmes - podcasts, wikis & blogs - to share our creativity with the world!

Please write a first draft of your book review for Thursday. Write one-side of A4.

Due: Thursday

Listen to our TimezoneExperiences Wiki Work!

We've recorded some brilliant podcasts - and drawn some KidPixs - for our IT 'flatclassroom' project, TimeZoneExperiences. Click here to enjoy one our pupil podcasts, and explore the wiki to enjoy more of our work, and enjoy pictures and Vokis from our partners in America!

Exciting News - FSG joins Books Go Global!

Over the next twelve months the Falcons is going to become involved in a series of global collaborative projects with schools on the other side of the world!

The first we've joined is Books Go Global. This is a book review site that will allow you to share your favourite books with Year 4-6 pupils in China, Australia, Canada and the USA! The sites aims are:

...the main purpose of this online space is to provide a place for students and teachers to share multimedia reviews of great books, to broaden reading for all students, and to connect and converse about books. Because reviews of a wide variety of books will be published here, students will be able to expand their reading horizons and meet other like-minded readers around the world.

We'll be creating the reviews using Voicethread.

Click here to visit the site and start enjoying some brilliant book reviews, and start thinking about which books you'd like to share with children your age on the other side of the world!