Our "Coraline" Book Project

We started the Autumn term by completing a two week book project on 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman. Mr. Shadbolt read the story to us every day, and we did loads of work in class that was linked to the text. Some of the things we did were:

• Made models of circus tents
• Decorated mice to look like members of a circus
• Practised sewing buttons on to fabric
• Drew pictures of the setting of the story
• Measured different capacities of 'limeade'.
• Went on a treasure hunt around our classroom
• Wrote poems about the horrible Other Mother
• Wrote our own comic strips about a girl whose feet turned in to sausages!

We finished the two week project by watching the film of 'Coraline', and then we compared the book and the film with one another. Mr. Shadbolt brought in chocolate biscuits, apples and limeade for us to feast on whilst we watched the film and did our work. It was a fantastic fortnight, and the whole class made a great effort to get all of the work finished.

Well done 4S - what a great start to year four!

Mr. Shadbolt's Brother

This is Mr. Shadbolt's brother. He looks like a horse.

Testing, Testing...

Okay, so this is the very first time that any class at Rise Park Primary School have had their very own class blog! It's a place where we can write about the fantastic lessons that we've had [Oh, they were fantastic!], amazing trips we might be going on [Ooh, they'll be amazing!], and the terrible jokes that Mr. Shadbolt might have told you [The jokes... the terrible, terrible jokes!]

We will update the blog whenever something new or interesting or fun happens in the classroom, and as the school year goes on, maybe Mr. Shadbolt will even let some of the children have a go at writing their own posts for the blog! Exciting times!

Watch this space...