World Book Day: Teacher's Costumes and Activites

 

It wasn't just the kids who had fun dressing up for book day! We teachers did, too! In the above photo: Scrooge, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, A pair of pants from 'More Pants' (me), and a butterfly from 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'.

In the photo below: a Maasai from 'The Warrior and the Moon', me (again), Cleopatra, Katniss Everdeen from 'The Hunger Games', and the butterfly (again).

 

In our classes we did different activities related to the book we came dressed from. I had the kids make underpant crowns and necklaces. Here they are, hard at work!

 And the necklaces:

 Several boys from my class last year worked together to create this masterpiece: they wanted me to be wearing as many pairs of pants as possible!

Later in we had several 'experts' running workshops. I ran the creative writing workshop for years five and six. We drew out a grid for 36 possible things we could include in a story, and then worked in pairs to create a story of a particular genre by rolling dice. The kids had fun and the best stories are going in the school newsletter.

World Book Day: Children's Costumes

Don't they look wonderful? World Book Day is a big deal in our school. Parents come to school, there's a BBQ, book sales, and the kids move around the classes to do book-related activities with different teachers.

A few days ago I posted about the costume I made to wear for the event. Today I'm posting pictures of the children's costumes; tomorrow, the teachers costumes and some of the different activities I did with the kids. Here's some of the costumes from Primary:

And two from Early Years. The youngest member of our school captured everyone's hearts by dressing as the princess from 'I Want My Potty'.

It was so much fun for the kids to dress up and some of the inventive costume ideas proved that parents don't always have to spend a lot of time or money to make their kids look fabulous.

World Book Day Costume

It's that time of year in school: World Book Day. The time where teachers and kids alike put on a costume and dress up as book characters.

Last year I went as *The Cat in the Hat*. I made my costume myself out of cardboard, but I made it into the newspaper! Here it is:

This year I have gone for something slightly more controversial (for conservative Arusha), which won't make it into the paper. I'm going as a pair of pants from the book *More Pants* by Nick Sharrat. We're celebrating book day on 7th March, but I already made the pants: 

 I used cardboard and cotton wool, and plan to attach them over my clothes using a long piece of string. I'm also thinking of making a crown with different pairs of pants on. Here's some images from the book:

Since at my school on World Book Day we rotate the classes around and do activities with a bunch of different classes, my activity will be to make underpant necklaces. World Book day is always tons of fun at Braeburn, so I'll post some pictures from the day after it's happened.