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Book Weeks
Mar. 6th, 2009 01:07 pmWhile reading stories this week at various schools' Book Weeks, I've been trying to keep a tally of the most popular costume choice for when children are told to come as a book character. My probably very unreliable impression is that top characters are:
1. Generic princess. (Of course, each princess might be a very specific one from a book, but they looked pretty generic.)
2. Generic pirate, some of which were definitely Captain Hook
3. Harry Potter (especially popular in Reception, despite the fact that books is aimed at rather older children.)
4. Horrid Henry
5. Disney's Snow White
6. Spiderman
7. Generic skeleton (maybe one of the Funnybones?)
8. Robin Hood
9. Generic knight
10. Little Red Riding Hood
I've been reading a story in which nursery rhyme characters write to an agony aunt to solve their problems, and I've been getting children to guess what the answer might be. This was what came up in today's group of mixed year 3 and 4s (aged 7 to 9)( How do you solve a problem like...? )
1. Generic princess. (Of course, each princess might be a very specific one from a book, but they looked pretty generic.)
2. Generic pirate, some of which were definitely Captain Hook
3. Harry Potter (especially popular in Reception, despite the fact that books is aimed at rather older children.)
4. Horrid Henry
5. Disney's Snow White
6. Spiderman
7. Generic skeleton (maybe one of the Funnybones?)
8. Robin Hood
9. Generic knight
10. Little Red Riding Hood
I've been reading a story in which nursery rhyme characters write to an agony aunt to solve their problems, and I've been getting children to guess what the answer might be. This was what came up in today's group of mixed year 3 and 4s (aged 7 to 9)( How do you solve a problem like...? )
