Linking together our Literacy unit on Plays with our Science unit on Space:
We watched both the 1971 version and the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (since we still have our free Amazon Prime trial!) for the girls to compare and contrast similarities and differences between the two interpretations, and practise their new play-related vocabulary such as scene, actor/actress, costume, prop, etc.
They preferred the older version because they liked the songs better! But the chocolate looked tastier in the newer version. 😋
Now they knew the storyline of the first book, this meant I could skip straight to reading them Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - which is partly set in space. 😁 And expose them to some rich new vocabulary and sentence structures they couldn't otherwise access independently, courtesy of Roald Dahl. 👌
When we start our unit on Poetry, insha'Allah, I'll probably revisit the book version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory then, since the Oompa Loompas have some nice rhymes which are worth looking at in more detail... We'll see!
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