Twas the night before Christmas

Have a listen to Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem ' A visit from St Nicholas', written 190 years ago in 1822. Most people know it as 'The night before Christmas' and lots of families read it together on Christmas Eve -  have you read it yourself?

Beware of The Grinch

Dr Seuss' book 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas' is an Xmas story with a difference. If you want to find out more, watch the youtube clip and then play the colouring game here:

http://www.seussville.com/games/lb_grinch_coloring.html

All aboard the Polar Express

The 'Polar Express' by Chris Van Allsburg is Ms Katherine's favourite book. Check out these links to Polar Express games and activities:

http://www.polarexpress.com/
http://www2.warnerbros.com/polarexpress/games/ticketChase.html

The Snowman

One of my favourite Christmas books is 'The Snowman' by Raymond Briggs. Check out this video of the 'Walking In The Air' song from the cartoon.

It's CHRISTMAS!

Christmas means lots of fun, sparkles and most importantly, festive books to read! Keep an eye on the blog for all of the Christmas book activities that we can find - if you know any yourself, leave a comment and we'll post them for you!

Parents - how you can help with reading at home!

Open publication - Free publishing - More education

Happy Birthday Mickey!

Sunday 18th November was the birthday of Mickey Mouse. On this day in 1928, Disney introduced Mickey to the world in the cartoon 'Steamboat Willie". That makes him 84 years old - the same age as my grandad!

Around the world in 80 days

To celebrate our international week, I've found this link to an audio book of Jules Verne's brilliant Around the world in eighty days. It's quite a grown up book, but if you fancy listening to a classic, you can click here Around the world in 80 days

Mr Euan goes viral!

Mr Euan has his own youtube channel that is home to lots of children's stories. They're more suited to MP1 and EYFS children, but even if you're older,, you can still enjoy them here: Mr Euan's youtube

2I International Week

2I are representing Britain for international week. Their theme is famous British children's authors - check out their cool video here www.mrdanhatfield.blogspot.com

4N are a little bit creepy!

4N have been working hard on some spooky halloween writing - you can check out their work here http://www.jessicacarterbis.blogspot.com/2012/11/spooky-storytelling.html. Why not leave them a comment and tell them what you think?

The Little Prince comes to HCMC!

For more details, http://www.dragonflyvietnam.com/

goodies and baddies

The EAL teachers have some great advice for anyone who wants to make their writing more exciting. They've posted a video explaining why we shouldn't use good or bad in our work - check out their good AWESOME blog here http://www.ap1eal.blogspot.com/

Happy Halloween...

Halloween is just around the corner - get yourself in the mood by reading the spookiest stories that you can find!



I really like the 'Goosebumps' books - if you're interested there's loads of frightening fun here http://www.scholastic.com/goosebumps/




Check out the Scary School website and meet Derek the Ghost http://www.scaryschool.com/

There's loads about Winnie the Witch here http://www.winnie-the-witch.com/flash.php

Test your knowledge of Olivia and Ivy in this My Sister The Vampire quiz http://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/quizzes/18862

Find out more about Mildred Hubble, the worst witch, and Cackle's academy here http://www.galafilm.com/worstwitch/

There's loads of Halloween games to play here http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/halloween/games.php

I've also found this trailer for the awesome 'Where The Wild Things Are' movie, based on the Maurice Sendak book.

If you have your own favourite spine-tingling tales, leave me a comment and I'll see if I can find a website for you!

Ms Emma is too Olde!

 6S are creating an Olde English dictionary to help them with their writing this week. See if you can give them a hand at http://emmacspencer.blogspot.com/2012/10/ye-olde-english-dictionary.html

3B creative writng

Have a look at the creative writing going on in Ms Kate's class -
http://www.katehealy.blogspot.com/p/creative-writing.html. Great work,writing superstars!

Happy Birthday Pooh Bear!

Sunday 14th was Winnie the Pooh's birthday! His first book was published on this date in 1926 - that makes him a very old bear indeed. We think he still looks good though, must be all of that healthy honey he scoffs down!

You can find out more Winnie the Pooh stuff here http://www.disney.co.uk/winnie-the-pooh/home/

Ella gets inspired!

Ella Iles in Year 5 was so inspired by working with Terry Caffrey that she went straight home and wrote these fabulous poems. Nice work Ella! If you like Ella's poems, why not leave her a comment and tell her!

Poem:
I wish to grow tall like the mountains. I wish to be fast like a cheetahs run. I wish to make new friends. I wish to have more pets. I wish to have fun!!!!!!!!

Poem:
Green yellow and blue that's what matches you. Purple pink makes me think of how our friendship will always be!!!!!

Poem:
The Olympics can be a hard time but when i think of it I think of the sour lime in my mouth add a little sugar and it is as sweet as you!!!

Poem:
The sea shells remind of the sea the sailing bouts remind me of the sea the weeds remind me of the sea but you know what DOES remind me of the sea you. You make my heart glow you make the waves speak you make me smile!! :)

Poem:
Trees are whispering in my ear. Birds are singing as loud as they can. The river flows gently the leaves are falling off the trees. Smoke filling the air, fires burning up trees falling down birds stop singing and fly away leaves not to fall again. Rivers become loud pollution filling the clear water.
Can you guess what it is?? If you don't help our planet smiles fade away......:(

Poem:
Skipping skipping skip hear the rope jingle as I jump through to another world. Butterfly's fly and deers jump when I go back to my world I want to see the same!!!!!

Book Week video!

Book day 2012!

Have a look at some of the wonderful book day costumes that we saw around school on Friday!

If you have any more photos that you'd like to share, email them to me and I'll put them on the blog! danielhatfield@bisvietnam.com

Guess Who?!

Click on the link to guess the book characters in Mr Wayne's class! http://mrwaynerichardson.blogspot.com/

Favourite Books?

After listening to all of the exciting extracts in assembly, we want to know what is your favourite book?

Can you leave a comment to tell us and we'll give you a housepoint!

EAL go digital

The EAL department have just set up their own blog to show off all of the English games, activities and fun stuff that they get up to. You can find it here http://www.ap1eal.blogspot.com/

So quiet in Year 5!

After an inspiring visit from Mr. Terry, 5I wrote descriptive sentences. It was so quiet in their class room because all the children were concentrating so much on their fantastic sentences! Have a look at what they thought was so quiet...

Terry Caffrey in AP1

We've really enjoyed having Terry Caffrey in school these past two days!

He's worked with children all the way from F2 up to Year 6 and EVERYONE has had a really good time. He's made us laugh with his poetry and inspired us to write - we hope you had a great time at BIS Mr Terry!

Where will your next book take you?

Check out this video - it shows you all of the amazing places that reading can take you! Enjoy bookweek!

3B book reviews

Have a read of the book reviews on the sticky wall of 3B's blog - you could even leave a note of your own if you wanted - http://www.katehealy.blogspot.com/

Bookweek in 3S

Have a look at the bookweek fun 3S have been having - http://ruthbuckley.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to leave a message on their sticky wall!

Mr Richard and Mr Simon get out and about

To celebrate bookweek, Mr Richard and Mr Simon have been out and about reading to lots of different classes in the school. If they've been to visit you, ask your teachers to email me a photo and it can go on the blog!

AP1 and TX 'story off'

The Year 6 classes at AP1 and TX are engaged in a 'story off'. Check out how they're getting on here http://www.emmacspencer.blogspot.com/2012/09/story-off.html and here http://www.clairebelfield.blogspot.com/2012/10/6ts-science-fiction-stories-dear-6s-and.html#comment-form

AP1 Book Fair

The book fair in Mr Peter's library looked really exciting when I dropped in this lunchtime. The children from Years 3 and 4 (and Ms Jude) were busy putting together wish lists of their favourite books! 

Bookweek the musical

Mr Charlie and Ms Fran have been busy practising our bookweek song for Friday's assembly. They've put it on soundcloud, which can be found on their music blog - have a listen and sing along!http://ap1music.blogspot.com/

Happy Bookweek!

Bookweek starts today at AP1! There's so many exciting things planned for this week that I've lost count of them all. We've got Terry Caffrey coming in to work with us, there's the book fair in the library, dress up day on Friday and loads more. If you do something really cool in class this week, you can leave a comment to tell me about it or get your teacher to email me a picture for the blog!

Bookweek gets off to a great start in Year 2!

6S storytime

6S have been busy writing stories this week. They have posted extracts on their class blog and have given links to their own blogs should you wish to read on! Check them out at www.emmacspencer.blogspot.com

Camera words in 1N

Have a look at the cool work 1N have been doing with their camera words! We really like your cat pictures too http://mshayleysherry.blogspot.com/

Red and yellow and pink and green...

There's been an explosion of colour in Mr Wayne's class, and I don't just mean on the ties he wears to school! Check out these really cool colour poems: http://mrwaynerichardson.blogspot.com/

Ms Georgina's loveLY class!

Ms Georgina's Year 3 class have been adding 'ly' words to their writing! Click on the photo below to read some of their work. If you're impressed, you could even leave a comment to tell them what you think!

Ms Jess and her class go totally Tolkein!

 Ms Jess' class celebrated the 75th birthday of The Hobbit with some Tolkein-inspired creative writing. Click on the pictures to have a read of their work and maybe leave a comment to tell them what you think!

Mr Ash needs your help!

Mr Ash - happy for all the help
he can get!

Mr Ash has challenged his class to read the poems on the poetry for kids website and then post a comment on his class blog saying which ones they liked and why! He's only had 9 replies so far - can anyone else help him out? Click this link if you can Mr Ash needs your help!

Phonics in Year 2

Mr Dan's phonics group have been teaching their parents some of the games they play in class - check out the photos at mrdanhatfield

Ms Bethany's class explore the Shire!

Ms Bethany's Year 5 class celebrated the 75th birthday of The Hobbit in style! They used plasticine to make models of different scenes from the story and did an even better job than the Year 5 teachers did earlier in the week!

Mr Wayne's class go to the movies!

Mr Wayne's class have been reviewing their favourite films, including Mr Charlie's favourite 'The Princess Diaries'. Have a look at what they think Mr Wayne Film Reviews

Y4 head to Hollywood!

Happy Birthday!

Friday the 21st of September is a really special day because it's the birthday of Mr Dan Hatfield The Hobbit. It's been 75 years since J.R.R. Tolkien first published the story of Bilbo Baggins and his awesome adventures.

We have the book in the library if you're interested in reading it for yourself. You can also find out more about it in this brilliant book review Hobbit Review

A Happy Hobbit Birthday!

Y6 Brainiacs

Mr John's class have been writing stories set inside the brain - it sounds a strange setting, but the stories are great fun to read. There are some photos of some of them, but all of their stories are up in their classroom, pop in and have a read if you get the chance!

1B guided reading

Ms Hannah has been working hard with her class on their guided reading activities. Have a closer look at what they've been doing on their blog http://www.mshannah1b.blogspot.com/p/english.html

The teachers get creative!

All of your class teachers were set a challenge in their last meeting - they had ten minutes to make a Plasticine model of a scene or character from a book extract they were given. They then had to add on adjectives, nouns and any other descriptive language that they thought was important. Mr Richard picked the winners - well done to the teachers in Year 4, we hope you enjoyed the KitKats!

The books were:

The Twits
The Hobbit
Lemony Snicket
The Secret Garden
The Secret Life Of Henry Sweet
Harry Potter

Can you guess which pictures went with which story?

Mr John's class are so NOT boring

Mr John's class have been reading part of a book called 'Staying Alive In Year 5'. Just like the children in the story, they had to complete a creative task called 'Why I'm Not Boring'. The class really enjoyed writing about it and wanted to share their ideas with you, what do you think?

SCUMPSING with Ms Helen & 6B!

Ms Helen's class have been working on a SCUMPS activity. While it might sound like something the BFG does for fun, it's actually a really good way of coming up with useful words to describe an object. Have a look at their pictures and see what you think - nice work 6B!

Ms Jemma's class are out of this world!

The children in Ms. Jemma’s class have been making links between their IPC topic ‘Space explorers’ and writing using descriptive language in English.

They created their own planet called ‘Gaylia’ and wrote a Lonely plant style travel book. This book contains important information about transport, what to wear and who you might meet if you visited Gaylia.

 

 

Drama inspires a desire to write...

Year 4 students enjoyed playing drama games, especially as the activities helped them to write more creatively.

http://jonojude.blogspot.com/2012/09/once-upon-lesson.html

3S on film

Ms Ruth and 3S have been filming their poetry sessions - check out their Dino performances here: http://www.ruthbuckley.blogspot.com/2012/09/performance-poetry-dino-poems.html

3B - a hive of creativity

Ms Kate's class has been busy with their creative writing. Have a look and let them know what you think! http://katehealy.blogspot.com/p/creative-writing.html

6I googledoc adventure

6I have been using googledocs to create pieces of shared writing - find out more by clicking here: http://msvictoriaedwards.blogspot.com/2012/09/we-love-shared-writing.html

Billy Goats Gruff in Year 2

Year 2 have been using adjectives to describe story settings and characters They used plasticine to make a model of the setting for the Three Billy Goats Gruff. They then wrote on useful nouns and adjectives. Finally, they used this to help them plan a piece of writing in their English books! Good work!

Happy Roald Dahl Day!

Sophie wishes her friend a happy birthday!

We almost forgot - Thursday 13th is Roald Dahl day! This year people are celebrating 30 years since the magnificent BFG was first published. Loads more information and activities can be found here http://www.roalddahlday.info/

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Eric Carle and his baby butterfly!

We've been busy putting together a list of websites for our favourite authors, but we've run out of ideas. Please can you help us to make the list longer by telling us your favourite in the comments section below - you will need your google apps log in details to do this?

They can be your favourite now, or from when you were little, it doesn't matter - just as long as you enjoy reading their books!

3I - accordion stories

The children in 3I have been using their teamwork skills to write some original stories in the ICT room. Their photographs are here: http://grahamtait.blogspot.com/

If you get the chance, maybe you could pop into their room and have a read of them?

Something spooky in 6I

The children in 6I have been frightening the life out of each other with some pretty scary horror stories! Take a closer look, if you're brave enough, at their class blog: http://msvictoriaedwards.blogspot.com/2012/09/horror-stories.html

English in 1B

Check out what Ms Hannah's class have been up to in their English work - impressive stuff!

http://www.mshannah1b.blogspot.com/p/english.html

2I Guided Reading

2I have been trying hard with their guided reading targets. You can have a look at what they are on their class blog http://mrdanhatfield.blogspot.com/

Fundinotots

The tiny people down in Fundinotots have been reading with Mr Peter in the library.

 

They've also been practising their mark making in the ELC!

 

Mr Wayne's class

Mr Wayne's class have been writing their own book reviews. Have a look at their class blog to see what they think about their favourite books http://mrwaynerichardson.blogspot.com/

Ms Victoria's class

Ms Victoria's class have been analysing story characters - check out the work they've done on their class blog http://msvictoriaedwards.blogspot.com/

Year 5 investigate features of a story

The pupils in Year 5 have been looking at the features of different types of story. They've produced these mind maps and displays to help them with their work! 

Ms Jemma's class get autobiographical

 

The children in Ms Jemma's class have been writing all about themselves and have produced these autobiographies - they're on a shelf in their class if you want to go and read them!

Year 6 uplevel their work

Ms Eileen's class have been editing their stories to make them better - if you ask them nicely, they MIGHT let you have a read!