This week we have been talking about the class novels we have read:
Jill Tomlinson’s
‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’
‘The Aardvark Who Wasn’t Sure’
and Jenny Nimmo’s
‘The Owl Tree’
and ‘The Stone Mouse’
We talked about the ones we preferred
and why we preferred them better.
First we collected data from the class
to see which book by Jill Tomlinson
2nd Class Room 6 preferred:
‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’
or ‘The Aardvark Who Wasn’t Sure’?
Then we made a bar graph.
Some children were absent
and Teacher got to vote as well.
You can see from the graph that
‘The Aardvark Who Wasn’t Sure’
was our favourite book, by a score of 16 to 12.
Then we collected data to see which
class novel about owls, the class preferred:
Jill Tomlinson’s ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’
or Jenny Nimmo’s ‘Owl Tree’?
We made a bar graph to show the results.
‘The Owl Tree’ was the winner there.
Once again the score was 16 to 12.
The next day we took a vote,
to collect data for this bar graph
to find out which story by Jenny Nimmo
the class preferred:
‘The Owl Tree’ or
‘The Stone Mouse’?
Teacher got to vote again and
there were less children absent,
so there were 30 in our survey.
‘The Stone Mouse’ was the winner here
by a very close score of 16 to 14.
Niamh said ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark’
was a very funny book that made her ‘laugh out loud’.
So why did the students in 2nd Class Room 6
prefer ‘The Aardvark who wasn’t sure’?
The Aardvark Who Wasn’t Sure’
The children said this was a funny book too
and that they learned lots of new things
about animals who live in the African ‘veldt’.
‘The Owl Tree’
‘The Owl Tree’ was the book children preferred
of the two about owls. 2nd Class Room 6 felt it was
an unusual and serious book and that it was more grown up.
They liked the way Jenny Nimmo
worked a little bit of magic into every day life.
Cian said it gave him ‘mixed feelings’ because predicting
what was going to happen to the tree worried him.
John Paul said he liked the description of the food
that Granny Diamond brought out to her ‘trick or treat’ visitors.
Isabella said that it was interesting
to try and imagine what Mr. Rock looked like.
Fiona said that it was a good book to help
some one understand a disability or someone who looked different.
However good ‘The Owl Tree’ was the children thought that
‘The Stone Mouse’ was even better.
‘The Stone Mouse’
There were so many problems for Ellie
and ‘The Stone Mouse’ to overcome.
Isabella said she was interested
in finding out why Ted did what he did.
Alice was fascinated by the connection
between Ellie and ‘The Stone Mouse’,
where they both seemed to be worrying
at the same time.
Alice thought that it was interesting
that Ted is the short for Teddy
and that usually Teddies are soft and cuddly
but that Ted in the story was not.
Our next class novel is ‘The Dog Star’ by Jenny Nimmo.
Teacher says that there is magic and a mystery in it
and we are looking forward to it.
