Y4 SOUTH EAST 2019/20
Welcome to the 2019-20 Reading Gladiators™ challenges. Let the reading begin!
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Submission by Iver Village Junior School
Adder, Bluebell, Lobster Mini Challenge
The Reading Gladiators at IVJS really enjoyed creating a narrative poem for this mini challenge! It was tricky to include all of the title words from the book in the poem, but they were up for the challenge! What a great book!
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Submission by Iver Village Junior School
The Dam Mini-challenge
The year 4 Reading Gladiators at IVJS really enjoyed this mini challenge! They all used different techniques including water colours and pastels, in the style of Levi Pinfold, to produce their watery images and also included some memories of their life at school.
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24th Feb 2020, 10:02am
Brilliant use of different art mediums to emulate Levi Pinfold's inspiring illustration. Well done! -
Submission by Snodland CEP
The Song of the Dolphin Boy
The Gladiators enjoyed looking on the 4 Oceans website and seeing how they can help. The children decided to make posters, including the email address of 4 Oceans to show and put up around the school. They wanted to raise awareness of recycling and how this can have an impact on helping our Oceans.
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6th Dec 2019, 1:54pm Fantastic posters Gladiators! We are pleased to hear they will be on display throughout your school spreading an important message. -
The Dam
Rylan and Louis chose this picture because they felt like the spirits felt happy with the music-Rylan said he thought if you looked close enough you can see them smiling.
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10th Dec 2019, 11:07am
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings about this wonderful book. -
The Dam
The Gladiators really love this book. They said that it was a heartwarming story, they liked that it was told by real people who this had happened to. They especially enjoyed the illustrations, they said that even though they couldn’t hear the music, they knew it was there by the way the illustrator had drawn the pictures 🙂
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10th Dec 2019, 11:06am We are so glad you are enjoying The Dam. Levi Pinfold is such an incredible illustrator. He really does convey a lot of meaning through his pictures. -
The Dam
Toluwani and Gracie said that the lake looked a beautiful sight, they said that the bright colours made it feel warm.
They chose the line ‘The lake is beautiful’
They said that something that was sad became beautiful.Comments
10th Dec 2019, 11:04am What a thoughtful response. -
The Dam
Harriet and Caitlyn felt that this picture showed the spirits and people coming together and listening to the music. They felt it was very heartwarming.
The line they chose was ‘Within the water the music stays’Comments
10th Dec 2019, 11:03am What an apt word! -
The Dam
Connie and Isabelle Chose this picture because they liked how all the spirits felt sad, but when the music played and dad sung the spirits felt happy and danced. The line they chose was ‘And they can never live here again’
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10th Dec 2019, 11:02am It's a poignant line, isn't it? -
The Song of the Dolphin Boy
Another poster displayed in our library.
The children felt really passionate about helping the Oceans. -
The Song of the Dolphin Boy
Children displayed their posters around the school and Library area to support the work of 4 Oceans. They made sure they put the website address on the posters for children to do some research.
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3rd Dec 2019, 11:00am An excellent way to spread the important messages raised in Song of the Dolphin Boy. Well done gladiators - you are excellent ambassadors for Authors4Oceans. -
Song of the Dolphin Boy
The children wanted to do a mind map explaining why litter is bad for the Oceans and Sea life. They have loved the book so far and feel sad about what is happening. They have really thought about what harm can be caused to the Dolphins, Turtles and other sea life.
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15th Nov 2019, 5:04pm It is one of the most important purposes of reading isn't it - to connect with the world and to have an emotional response to the themes and issues the author is raising in their writing. Many authors feel very strongly about the decline of our oceans. You can find out about their wonderful stories at https://www.authors4oceans.org/29th Nov 2019, 2:00pmIn one of our sessions the children went onto the website and have done some research. It makes them feel sad when they see pictures of how the sea life and Oceans are being treated.3rd Dec 2019, 10:39am It is so important children are exposed to books that raise issues that affect all of us. Song of the Dolphin Boy is the ideal vehicle with which to discuss the issues facing our planet. I hope discussing Ocean pollution within the context of the story has helped the children to understand the issues and even be motivated into action! We have had some very moving submissions this month. -
Song of the Dolphin boy
And another guess?
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18th Nov 2019, 10:52am
I'm going to guess that you are freeing the dolphin?19th Nov 2019, 1:30pm Me too! Great drama work gladiators. -
Song of the dolphin Boy
I wonder if you can guess what scene this is from? 🙂
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19th Nov 2019, 1:29pm Great use of gesture and body language here. Freeing the dolphin? -
Song of the Dolphin Boy
Our Gladiators loved working in pairs and creating a still image of a scene that they had been given
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18th Nov 2019, 10:50am I can see total absorption on your faces. You are doing so well at creating these still images! -
Submission by Snodland CEP
Treasure of the Golden Skull
The children have really enjoyed producing their map of Maudlin. They also wrote questions to try and entice children to want to read the book as well :-)
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8th Nov 2019, 12:46pm A beautifully neat map with some superb questions. Well done Gladiators! -
Treasure of the Golden Skull
The Gladiators have really enjoyed this book. They loved designing their own Pirates
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17th Oct 2019, 2:53pm What a wonderful display! I am so glad you have enjoyed The Treasure of the Golden Skull. Perhaps you can look out for the other books in the series?21st Oct 2019, 9:23am The latest title: Attack of the Meteor Monsters is just out and you'll find the first title in the Maudlin Towers series: Curse of the Werewolf Boy in our Spooky Steppe pack in The Reading Journey. -
Treasure of the Golden Skull
The children are so engrossed in their book and love listening to each other.
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1st Oct 2019, 2:54pm They certainly look engrossed. Look out for the next title in the Maudlin Towers series that comes out tomorrow: Attack of the Meteor Monsters! -
Treasure of the Golden Skull
A Gladiator creating their own version of a pirate 🙂
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1st Oct 2019, 2:55pm Pirates are really interesting characters to portray visually. Have you seen the slides showing different illustrators interpretations of what a pirate might look like? We'd love to see your finished drawing. -
Treasure of the Golden Skull
Our Gladiators enjoyed chilling out and reading parts of the story in our Library area today. The children loved putting lots of expression of pirates into their reading.
They especially enjoyed being put into two groups of four and acting out their Theatre activity.Comments
1st Oct 2019, 2:58pm Wow! Your library look so inviting. Delighted to hear that you enjoyed the first Readers Theatre activity. Look out for another one in week 3. -
The Treasure of the Golden Skull
This week the children were excited to be using the play scripts and acting out some of the characters from the story.They also enjoyed working together and listing the characters they have read about so far…
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26th Sep 2019, 10:53am Wonderful! You look like you are getting into character there! -
Maudlin Towers
Last week the children loved starting their maps of Maudlin Towers, ready to add to, for the mini challenge at the end.
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26th Sep 2019, 1:43pm Great work! I think Mildew and Sponge would be proud of these. We look forward to seeing your finished mini challenge later. -
Treasure of the Golden Skull
All our Gladiators enjoyed settling into our first session, they are all excited to go away and read the next few chapters, to see what unfolds. They also enjoyed reproducing and annotating their map of Maudlin.
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19th Sep 2019, 11:02am Sounds fantastic - would you be able to share some photos of your maps please? -
Let the Challenge Begin!
Welcome year 4 Gladiators. The 2019-20 challenge is about to begin. We can’t wait to hear what you think about your new books.
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18th Sep 2019, 10:18amWe had our first session today of 'Treasure of the Golden Skull' My Gladiators were very enthusiastic and loved reproducing and annotating their map of Maudlin! They are very excited to go away and read the next few chapters :-)18th Sep 2019, 10:59am We'd love to see a photo of your map.
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