Mrs Noah's Pockets

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Year 4KM delved into the Mrs Noah’s stories to link with our time away from school and talk about our feelings.

We completed lots of wonderful activities including designing and decorating our own pebbles for our school garden, making garden collages in the style of James Mayhew and weaving our own ‘pockets’– explaining what we would choose to take onto the ark and why. For example, reading Mr Noah’s thoughts and words or you could take turns reading the lines on the opening pages when the rain comes and when Mrs Noah watches Mr Noah make plans. Mysterious and intriguing, what she is doing is not revealed until the ark finally finds land after the great rains and we see, in a series of beautiful illustrations, the fantastical creatures she has saved. Relishing her apparent helplessness, her carer’s boyfriend confides to her that he has committed a murder – but when a technological advance offers Jemma the chance of a voice, she becomes a danger to him.

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For the first two weeks of term, the year 4 children took part in a whole school project based on two books written by Jackie Morris and illustrated by James Mayhew – Mrs Noah’s Pockets and Mrs Noah’s Garden. Read the story aloud to your child pausing to talk about what is happening in the story and the illustrations. The use of blue, the darkening of the colours during the rains, the wonderful lightness as the sun reappears and the rain stops, is very effective. Age 5-7 years When Mr Noah decides to be quite selective about the animals he allows on his ark, Mrs Noah takes matters into her own hands. If there is a very rainy day, collect rainwater in a jam jar or measuring jug, and see how many centimetres of rain has fallen.At its heart is the pain of rejection, felt both by unhappy boy Tom and by Spider, the runty reject puppy with the projecting tooth to whom Tom gives his heart after his parents’ separation. We then read ‘Mrs Noah’s Garden’ which was focusing on renewal and starting afresh, just like we were doing in school. They created their own and wrote a non-chronological report to inform others of their magical creation. Work of the highest standard is always completed on time and I would happily recommend Eva to anyone looking for top quality teachers' notes to accompany their texts.

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awareness of purpose and audience and selection of appropriate form, style, register and medium of communication. An 8 page illustrated set of Teachers’ Notes to encourage close observation and reflection through a range of stimulating creative, imaginative andpractical activities. Complex characterisation, fast-paced action and a corkscrewing plot combine in this satisfying, thought-provoking read. When Mr Noah builds the ark, he makes two lists - one for all the animals who will come on board and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behind. We then presented our work to some of our friends and discussed what we had enjoyed about the project.Marrying Jackie Morris’s words with James Mayhew’s richly textured illustrations, this book is fabulous in all particulars, from its duped patriarch believing that his wife is sewing curtains rather than secret pockets for centaurs, to its endpapers, full of wild waters and gambolling fantastic beasts.