You can watch a short video about Oliver Jeffers here. You will see that he uses a small sketchbook,like the one that I showed you how to make last week, to record and develop his ideas. Can you find out the distance from the Earth to the Moon? How long would the rope need to stretch that far? Courtney Peppernell is a bestselling author from Sydney, Australia, best known for her Pillow Thoughts poetry collection. The series has achieved acclaimed success worldwide, with more than a million copies sold since the initial launch in 2017. Before you start reading look at the cover together and talk about what the story might be about.As you read the story aloud pauseif your child wants to look at the pictures and talk about what is happening. Talk about the story

I was utterly disappointed. Each poem seemed like a sad attempt of an uplifting Facebook post that a freshman in high school (no offense to high schoolers, but it was a lot like what I wrote for classes) would write to share positivity. The poems’ meanings were spoon fed to me, and they left me with no room for interpretation. Missionary Ada says, 'Hello there. We haven't seen a lot of you adventurer types in a while. As you can see, a lot has changed here. With all the [strange things] going on I suppose it seems petty for me to worry about my own small [troubles].'Some of the illustrations use lots of pictures to show a single action (e.g. the boy putting on his pilot’s outfit and the conversation about fixing the two machines). Can you make a storyboard that shows an action / event? You find several footprints in the snow. It is clear that there was a struggle here. Large footprints lead off to the southeast. Missionary Ada says, 'Hah, what isn't strange out here these days? Something is affecting the ice and snow, as I'm sure you can see. It, well, it moves. Its like its sort of alive. It crawls up walls or just on top of itself. That's what created all those spikey ice structures. It also seems to crawl into the bodies of the dead and causes them to move too. None of us know what's causing it, though we have our [suspicions] about who is behind it.'

This poetry anthology was written with the panic and claustrophobia, the grief and the uncertainty, that the recent pandemic brought to all our lives. It is very personal, focusing on Peppernell's own losses and mental health struggles, but with themes that are universally experienced. I found many a beautiful passage to underline and much hope delivered after the very bleak first portion. The boy's head ismore or less circular with a long nose like a stretched out 'J' and two small eyes a little like full stops. Here is a real 'J' with full stops either sideso that you can see what I mean→. ȷ . Your KS1 class can even cut out the sentences and arrange and rearrange accordingly. If you have numerous copies of the book they can cross reference using the book as and determine their accuracy for self assessment and reflection. This collection fell flat for me. I am reminded of the way I felt about Amanda Lovelace's new work as well. Early Peppernell's poetry and prose was lush, enticing, and enjoyable. This collection felt stale, overdone, and repetitive. Now, I will not rule out the fact that maybe I have outgrown this author...but when I was thumbing through some of her pervious work I became envious that I'm not getting to read that for the first time! I still enjoy her earlier books! I felt mostly apathetic throughout book. A lot of the content was very repetitive and I wasn't a fan of the self-help, life coach tone. There were a few stories that reminded me of fables and parables, except that they completely missed the mark for me too.A range of questions have been asked linked to retrieval and basic inference. The resource has been differentiated 4 ways to cater for Year 1 to Year 2 children. Loot a Simple Velium Pendant from the slain kodiak. Only one pendant will drop and will update the whole group.