A Scrumdiddlyumptious Day of Roald Dahl
On Thursday, 26 August, Year 3 decided to hold a Roald Dahl Day Party. Yes, yes, we know that we are a couple of weeks early, but it seems that it is never too early to celebrate the wonderful works of Roald Dahl.
We started the day by all putting on a “Roald Dahl Day Party” badge, just so that everyone else in the school would know what we were celebrating in Year 3.
Our first lesson of the day started with a short video from youTube where it talked about the greatest “swizzfiggler” of them all. We talked about many of the nonsense words which Roald Dahl used in his writing. The girls were then given the task of reading a short passage and locating Roald Dahl’s nonsense words. They had to work out what each word meant and whether it was a noun, verb or adjective, just by looking at the context in which it was used.
Lesson 2 was a Talking and Listening lesson where we all shared our favourite passage from a Roald Dahl book or a Roald Dahl poem. This culminated with Miss F reading the passage from Matilda where Miss Trunchbull calls Bruce Bogtrotter to the stage. Miss F stood on a chair to pretend to be the enormous character of Miss Trunchbull. Mrs H was called to the stage to play the part of Bruce Bogtrotter. As the cook was called in, Mrs W (dressed in the appropriate chef’s hat) entered with a spectacular “Bruce Bogtrotter Chocolate Cake”. Luckily for us all, we were able to share in this cake for morning tea!
After recess we did some maths, but it was a little bit different. We made Blue Bubblers from The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me. We had to follow the procedure carefully, measure out amounts and we even worked out that the lemon juice and sugar reacted together to make it all bubble! Check out the photos below to see how much fun we had!
After lunch we did a Roald Dahl webquest and a Matilda wordsearch. This was followed by a fantastic drama lesson where we acted out critical moments from the story of Matilda.
The teachers were exhausted by the end of the day but it was totally worth it to see how much fun and learning was had by all!
We would love to hear if anyone else is celebrating Roald Dahl Day and how. Or, if you were at our Roald Dahl Day, what was the most splendiferous part of the day for you and why?
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:28 pm
The Blue Bubblers were SO good, they made our tongues and teeth go blue. Roald Dahl Day was splendiferous and i wish it was Roald Dahl Day every day!!!!!
Alex T
September 8th, 2010 at 8:46 am
What a wonderful party you had! Miss Trunchbull’s antics made me giggle and I bet that the chocolate cake was lipsmacking good!.
So glad that you had fun.
Jos F (Justine’s Mum)
September 11th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
The blue bubblers were alright (I think I put a bit too much sugar into mine!) Mrs Humphries’ chocolate cake fitted in well for the occasion! I also loved translating Roald Dahl’s language because we got to express our personalities. Reading a passage was also fun because we got to listen to humour, excitement and his wonderful language. The online Matilda quiz was also fun because we could test our knowledge on the book “Matilda” which you can see in our bookshelf. The Matilda word-search had a lot of words you could find and it was very crowded at the end! There was a bit of fuss about what coloured paper we had though! Drama was great! My group did the part when Matilda put her Mother’s blonde peroxide into her Father’s hair tonic! We did that bit because we all thought it was hilarious! I loved the drama lesson because we got to show what we loved about Matilda. I have to say, I do feel sorry for the teachers with all the excitement, and I have to agree with Alex, I also wish it was Roald Dahl Day everyday!
Jess
September 18th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Hi year 3,
I think the Blue Bubblers look Scrumdiddlyumptious. Anyway, the Blue Bubblers were scrumdidyumptious they were the BEST.
By Natasha
September 20th, 2010 at 7:55 am
Emma says my sister came home with a blue tongue from the blue bubbles and I wanted one too, so I let her have the ingredients for it.
Emma.w
September 20th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
My favourite thing we did that day was Roald Dahl’s use of words that make no sense. It really made us think, as we had to guess what the words could mean. We found that one of the words was real, but we thought it was one of Roald’s words. The worksheet gave us a clue that it was only ten words, most of them sounded like sweets, I choose princesses and wizards to create a fantasy out of the words. This blog is something fun that we can give our say of what is splendiferous about these topics.
(PS: When is the new topic showing up on the blog?)
Regards Raylee
September 20th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
My favourite thing about Roald Dahl day was getting to make Blue Bubblers because my tongue went blue, but I didn’t really like the taste of it. I also liked doing the quiz on the computer and getting to say a Revolting Rhyme or part from a book.
Jen
September 21st, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Hi Everyone,
That sounds really fun and I wish I was ther for the Choclate cake.
Bye from Charlotte.P in year 5
September 24th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
I loved geting blue teeth from the blue bubbler. I wish we will have Roald Dahl day next year!
See you guys next term!!!!
September 25th, 2010 at 11:55 am
I LOVED ROALD DAHL DAY!!!!!!!
Those blue bubblers were SCRUMDIDLYUMPTIOUS everyone had blue teeth and toungs. I wish we had Roald Dahl dat every year
see you guys next term
September 25th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Hi guys, I’ve just set up a new blog. Here’s the link.
http://zoerose.edublogs.org/
From Zoe
October 12th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
I LOVED ROALD DAHL DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those BLUE BUBBLERS were running down our throat with all that sugar and lemon. That made your teeth and toungs BLUE it was soooo much FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the BEST day of my life.
See you next year.
October 29th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
I had such a fun time and I wish I could do it again! I realy loved the blue bublers and I had a blue toungue by the end of it!!!!!!! I also liked the drama espesaly when Miss Fisk was Bruce Bogtroter! I think it was an AWESOME day.
November 1st, 2010 at 4:49 pm
It was one of the best days ever, I loved learning about what some of Roald Dahl’s crazy words meant (from Charlie and the Chocolate factory). It was definitely a scrumdiddlyumptious day!