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Hornbeam class have had a brilliant day celebrating World Book Day 2024 today.

We began the day by learning all about two families; The Smeds and The Smoos. The main characters are aliens. The Smeds are red and The Smoos are blue. Miss Brown was dressed as a Smed and Mrs Johnson was dressed as a Smoo.

After being read the story and watching it digitally, we wrote book reviews highlighting our favourite parts- safe to say it recieved 5 star reviews. 

The story ends with the families setting aside their differences and realising that no matter what your differences are, you can get along! The red Smed Janet and the blue Smoo Bill had a purple alien called a Smoo-Smed.

This lead to a colour mixing activity where we made our own spinners using two colours to make a secondary colour when spun. 

We created some awesome aliens and planets for them to live on. Before ending our day by making colouring mixing sensory bottles. We used half a jar of water, added a few drops of food colouring, mixed baby oil and a different food colouring in a seperate cup and poured the oil mixture into the water in the jar. We loved watching the colours mix as well as watching the jars settle to show the two seperate colours again!

Our song to sing by the light of the silvery squoon, 

And you can sing, too, if you make up a tune:

"Play with the Smeds and play with the Smoos.

Play with whichever friends you choose. 

Then close your eyse and while you snooze, 

Dream of the Smeds and dream of the Smoos!"