World book day!

For world book day this year we took inspiration from the incredible author Julia Donaldson. Each class chose a different book of hers to focus on, in year 1 we looked at The Gruffalo. We started our day by reading the story, something which we all loved. We learnt a little about Julia Donaldson and the Illustrator of her books Axel Scheffler and had a look at some of the other books they have worked together on, we were surprise to see how many we recognised! 
We then got to work, today we were authors and illustrators. We started by collecting some vocabulary that we wanted to use before sitting down to write our own description of the Gruffalo. We then very carefully illustrated our writing. Everyone worked incredibly hard and carefully created their piece. 

In the afternoon we finished off our books by designing our own front covers, we learnt that front covers need to include the book title and the names of who had made the book. 
After this we all got a bit creative and made a collage of the Gruffalo on  a paper plate. 
We then finished off our day with a visit from year 5 who were kind enough to come and read everyone a book of their choice!