Roding Reads - Issue 5

Welcome to Roding Reads, YOUR weekly newsletter on all things reading. Today is National Space Day, and it’s nearly Star Wars day, so enjoy the intergalactic theme this week! Lets FILL this with your work and pictures EVERY week. Send all your pictures and writing to: ajones@rodingvalley.net.

Roding Caught Reading Roding, we need YOU! Get caught reading, and send us a picture, along with a few words about the book, to feature next week.

Ms Hodges: Space!

Stanley Anderson, 7S: Little Petroff & the Pine Cone Men

Ms Hodges and her family enjoying the wonders of space at bedtime!

My Granny gave me this book, which she was given by her granny when she was stuck in with rheumatic fever.

It’s about Petroff, a Russian boy who has to bring in the hay and needs help...

Book of the Week: Ender’s Game Ender's Game is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card.

Set in Earth's future, the novel presents a war-torn mankind, after two wars with an alien species known as "buggers". To prepare for a third invasion, children are trained in intense games from a very Read it here: young age at an academy named Battle https://epdf.pub/ School. Located in orbit above the ender-wiggin-1Earth, it is here we meet Ender Wiggin. enders-game.html Could Ender be the hero Earth needs?

Games Corner All the words you are looking for are space themed. It’s going to take some comet-ment to find them all!

This week has celebrated the spirit of togetherness, from family time at Ms Hodges’ to passed-down books at Stanley’s house. What will it be next week?

Please remember to quiz books on Accelerated Reader when you have finished reading them! This is still an expectation!

Space Quiz time — Answers next week!

1. When is Star Wars day?

2. Ganymede is a moon of which planet?

3. What is the name of Saturn’s largest moon?

4. Olympus Mons is a volcanic mountain on which planet?

5. How far is Earth from the sun?

6. How long does the light of the sun take to reach us on Earth?

7. What is the largest galaxy close to Earth called?

8. What is a supernova?

9. Which NASA space flight was the last manned mission to the moon?

10. Who has the record for longest continuous amount of time spent in space?

Quiz Answers 03.04.20 1. Les Miserable 2. Pi 3. 221B Baker Street 4. Edward and Jacob 5. Albus Dumbledore

6. Apocalypse Now 7. 18 books and 3 films 8. Hook 9. Snow White

Writer’s Corner - Read a great book recently? Write a book review and send it in!

- Why not write a letter to an author about one of their books? - “I loved your book BUT…” and pick something you would have done differently. We will then send these to the authors, and publish them in the Writer’s Corner. You never know…we may even get a reply! Everyone loves an #EvenBetterIf moment!

Remember, send it all to us at Roding Reads by emailing: ajones@rodingvalley.net Ms Patel’s book is called happiness by design and is all about how we can use our environment to make things a lot happier. There are scenarios to help people think about why we should always be happy!

As it’s National Space Day, why not read something space-themed this week? Check these suggestions out - maybe they’ll inspire you! Click on their picture for the blurb of the book !

Ms Patel Have we missed a great space book? Write to us and tell us which space book you think is a must read!

Summer Term— #WritersPerch If you haven’t already done so, please remember to write a poem about Spring and submit it to your class teacher on Google Classroom.

Featured below is some work submitted by Year 7s this week. Keep up the hard work, everybody and keep any writing or drawings you are proud of to: ajones@rodingvalley.net.

By Alicia Stokes, 7T

By Bobbi Swaby, 7V Book review on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

This book was unlike any other book I’ve ever read. I first saw this book in one of my classrooms, so I checked it out. It was a very realistic book; I was drawn into another world, I could really see life from Christopher’s point of view. The way it was written drew a very clear picture in my mind.

It may not have been 100% appropriate but it was worth it! I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an adventure. By Xenia Tseka , 7R

Spring is the season, full of happiness and light People’s faces begin to glow, with cheer and delight Roses and daffodils all begin to bloom In the meadows, colours form, and wash away the gloom Night times are getting warmer newborn animals everyday Grass gets greener, as days move into May.