Things I Like at School

Things I like at School

Labels to copy or stick

painting
riding a bike
reading books
using numbers
playing in the role-play area
using the sand tray
writing
playing with the blocks
plating with my friends
eating my lunch
listening to stories

Can you think of some of your own?

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Week 1 Blurbs to cut out and stick

Powerful adjectives to use for blurbs

arresting

brilliant

distinctive

enjoyable

extraordinary

hilarious

outstanding

powerful

superb

talented

unforgettable

valuable

witty

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Author Profile – Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne loved art and would spend

hours drawing with his father. He says of his father, "He was an unusual man - outwardly strong and confident, but also shy and sensitive - a bit like the gorillas I love to illustrate now. As well as drawing, he encouraged me to play a lot of sports, such as rugby and soccer and cricket. I was small for my age and I used to go to a fairly tough school - if I hadn't been good at sports, I would probably have been bullied."

After he left school, Anthony studied graphic design and then went on to paint the insides of people's bodies for medical textbooks. He found this fascinating, but after three years found he felt like he needed to do something new and instead begun designing greeting cards. This in turn led him to illustrating children's books - his book Gorilla began life as a picture on a birthday card.

Gorillas feature in many of Anthony's books. He says, "I am fascinated by them and the contrast they represent - their huge strength and gentleness. They're thought of as being very fierce creatures and they're not." Anthony's illustrations also reveal his love of the Surrealist painters, whose pictures often depict strange, dreamlike scenes (look out for all the disguised bananas hidden in Anthony's books!). When Anthony first has an idea for a picture book, he says, "It's a strange combination of story and images. Deciding what will be illustrated on the pages of a book is like deciding on the scenes of a film." Anthony has won many prizes for his work. In 2000, he received the highest international honour for illustration, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his services to children's literature - the first British illustrator to win the prize since 1956.

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Things you didn't know about Anthony Browne

1. When he was a boy he wanted to be a journalist, a cartoonist, or a boxer.

2. He was once asked to present a programme on children's books, in a cage with some gorillas. But a gorilla bit him badly on the leg. It didn't put him off them, "But," he says, "you wouldn't catch me going into a cage with one again!"

3. He grew up in a pub and when he was little, would go into the bar, stand on a table and tell stories about a character he'd made up called Big Dum Tackle.

4. He wore short trousers until he was fifteen.

5. He thinks the character, Willy, is based on his own childhood.

6. When he was a boy, he wanted a real trumpet for his birthday, but he got a toy plastic one instead. He says his book, Gorilla, was partly based on that experience.

7. He loves rugby and played as a scrum-half for eighteen years.

8. His book The Tunnel was inspired by a very frightening tunnel he and his brother used to go down when they were boys.

9. When he was a medical artist, he would often eat his lunch in the mortuary.

10. He says he has never found the perfect pair of swimming shorts!

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Character Profile

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Character Profile

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Guatemalan Worry Dolls

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Ideas for making Worry Dolls

Worry Dolls are usually tiny (2½-3cm) and kept in a small bag or box.

For slightly bigger dolls.-

Roll sheets of A4 paper round a long paintbrush and glue along one side to make a thin tube.
When dry cut into lengths of about 6 cm long.
Chn can draw/colour clothes and face with felt tips or use small scraps of fabric and wool.
Stick on a short length of thick string for arms.

Give children strips of card like bookmarks, on which to draw worry dolls.
Decorate with felt tips, scraps of fabric or coloured paper.

Use paper straws cut in lengths of 2½-3cm to make tiny dolls.

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Anthony Browne’s characters to explore

The little boy in ‘Into the Forest’
Sam in ‘Look What I’ve Got’
Jeremy in ‘Look What I’ve Got’
Joseph in ‘Changes’
Mr Piggott in ‘Piggybook’
Simon or Patrick in ‘Piggybook’
Willy in ‘Willy the Wimp’
Hannah in ‘Gorilla’
The girl in ‘The Tunnel’
The boy in ‘The Tunnel’

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Anthony Browne’s Characters (A)

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Anthony Browne’s Characters (B)

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Feedback form on an author

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Can you use some of these connectives to write a compound sentence?

For example

______felt sad when ______

______had bad dreams as soon as _____

______was upset because ______

Try writing sentences about your character using some of the connectives below. Tick them when you have used them.

after
before
while
as soon as
when

since
until
whenever
because
if

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My character…

…felt sad because…

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Story plan Name

Once there was…
(introduce your character and show why they are sad) / He/she had a secret friend.
(introduce the Night Shimmy, yours may have a different name) / What did the secret friend do?
(show 3 ways it helped you/your character)
Who else comes into your story?
(who did your character meet?) / What did they do?
(show 3 ideas of the different things they did or games they played) / Did your character say goodbye to the Night Shimmy?
(show what happened at the end)

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