Mrs Armitage on Wheels: Celebrate Quentin Blake’s 90th Birthday

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For freewheeling joy and inventiveness, this classic picture book is hard to beat. Korky Paul, S Magazine, Sunday Express As well as all the above, Quentin Blake is a wonderful author who provides many hidden details within the illustrations. Read You Can’t Take an Elephant on the Bus. Identify each form of transport. Children discuss which vehicles they have tried; they share their reason for travelling and describe how it felt. Read and choose favourite recipes, discover interesting facts and write question-and-answer information texts about food. Read and write questions and statements and produce recipes.

Share Mrs. Armitage on Wheels Identify each problem Mrs. Armitage solves. Discuss the improvements the children would make to their bikes/scooters, e.g. add a wireless speaker to play music, a TV, a seat for teddy. Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate. In the 2013 New Year’s Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.Year 2 : Today we a going to start with the 5 times table. Look at Super movers 5 times table video. You need your poshest voices today! Make sure when you answer Posh Pooch you still keep your posh voice! We publish a Literature Newsletter when we have news and features on UK and international literature, plus opportunities for the industry to share. It is also be used across the curriculum. For example, in Design and Technology it could be used as a hook for a lesson where children would be exploring functional design choices. This story is a great one to read with children because it is a text which explores many aspects of grammar such as speech, tense and different sentence structures. Therefore, it could be used as a hook or context for further learning to take place.

Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18256 Openlibrary_edition humorous....reminds me of the same concept as If you give a mouse a cookie....there is always something more needed to make it perfect. In the case of Mrs. Armitage, she needs just one more thing to make her bike ride perfect. British Council complies with data protection law in the UK and laws in other countries that meet internationally accepted standards.

Un magico libro illustrato dal grande illustratore per l’infanzia Quentin Blake per mostrarci un’altra divertente avventura di Mrs Armitage. The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. You could bury it in a hole in your garden – but it must be in a container that will not biodegrade - and you will have to mark the spot somehow! Choose another vehicle such as a car or a scooter. Talk about what things you would like to add, for example a basket for a cuddly toy. Have a go at drawing or making the design. You could make a life size version by using big cardboard boxes and other recycled materials. Make up a song

The lessons are suitable for Primary 1 to 3 classes (Scotland) with First level Curriculum for Excellence links highlighted.

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I do like these Mrs Armitage children's books. They are suitably silly and a lot of fun. I am also sensing a theme! Mrs Armitage is a bit of a disaster, always trying to improve things until it overwhelms or collapses. Topics: problem-solving; resilience; women in STEM; positive images of older people; transport; quest stories urn:lcp:mrsarmitageonwhe0000blak:epub:7a9c907e-2788-49de-92be-f0f04032885b Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mrsarmitageonwhe0000blak Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2f85gs9g Invoice 1652 Isbn 0224024817 This picture book was requested again and again when my children were small. Mrs Armitage goes for a bike ride with her very cute dog, Breakspear. She finds ways to make additions to her bike, a dog seat, a mouth organ, some umbrellas, a sail.... until it goes wrong. A fun read with lots of details to look at in the illustrations.