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

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Explore the world of nocturnal animals by sharing fiction and non-fiction books such as The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark and Night Animals. The continuous thread in the story is her saying ‘What we need here is …’, and she proceeds to accumulate beach items and rescues a young girl, before finally riding a big wave. Children use colour to express emotions and then read and create different monsters to act out feelings. Also worth mentioning is that it is written and illustrated by Quentin Blake, so the pictures really add to the humour of the story. As well as illustrating the books of others, including Roald Dahl and Elizabeth Bowen, Blake has written numerous books of his own.

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!Encourage the children to vary the pitch and tone of their voice as they rehearse to emphasise the rhyming words, e. The block ends with children writing a repeating pattern story, inspired by illustrations in Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present. By the time it finally changes into a well-mannered young man, the couple have themselves become a pair of large brown pelicans.

He taught at the Royal College of Art for over twenty years, and was head of the Illustration department from 1978 to 1986. Without dialogue, it has the purity of a silent film, creating movement and telling its delightful story entirely through pictures. I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily TelegraphQuentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. Explore how everyone is different and special using the books All Are welcome Here and The Brightest Blue to spark discussions and share opinions.Today we are going to carry on the colour pattern then we will do the shape pattern and finally there is a challenge where there is a picture pattern for you to try. He recently illustrated David Walliams's debut book, The Boy in the Dress and his more recent book Mr Stink. It changes into a succession of alarming animals, including a screeching vulture, a baby elephant (‘How can we cope?

Enjoy sharing and discussing The Colour Monster and Colour Me Happy, Colour Me Sad to help understand emotions. The final page provides an irresistible writing trigger as Mrs Armitage stares down at her replacement transport and says, “But what these roller-skates need…”.In 1999 he was appointed the first Children’s Laureate, and his achievement has recently been marked by a major retrospective exhibition: ‘Quentin Blake: Fifty Years of Illustration’, held at Somerset House in London in 2004. He was born in 1932, reading English at Cambridge, then studying teaching at the University of London, and life classes at Chelsea Art School. I remember that after listening to the story (when I was in school) we did a lot of follow up work designing our own inventive bikes, with quirky ideas from the story such as umberellas on the handles bars and ideas from our own imagination.

They practise writing sentences which are punctuated with capital letters and full stops, and joining words and clauses using ‘and’. They can design and label ideas for their own bike modifications ( see Unit 2 for an image resource) and consider the character of Mrs Armitage and how she deals with problems. They can retell the story, discuss the repeating patterns and draw story maps to sequence the events. Armitage is one of those unconventional main characters that makes you immediately very fond of her.Blake started out precociously, having drawings in Punch magazine while still a schoolboy in 1949, and becoming a regular contributor. Blake’s illustrations are integral to books such as The Twits (1980), The BFG (1982), and The Witches (1983). He gained another teaching diploma at the Institute of Education before working at the Royal College of Art. Have fun with repeating patterns in Mrs Armitage on Wheels and Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present. His first drawings were published in Punch at the age of sixteen, and he continued to draw for Punch, The Spectator and other magazines for many years, while entering the world of children's books with his first book as an illustrator, A Drink of Water and Other Stories by John Yeoman, in 1960.