Last term we read an imaginative birthday story called ‘ Billy’s Bucket’. We used talk for writing to retell the story ; we wrote party shopping lists ; birthday wish lists; we described the buckets, we labelled sea life creatures and we wrote about the parts of the story that we liked. We then transformed our reading library into an ocean and we made sea in a bottle, party hats and birthday cards. Finally Billy arrived in our classroom and we threw him  a big  birthday party .  It was a blast !