In April 2025, pupils set off on a journey to the fairy-tale land of Jan Brzechwa’s poem ‘Na wyspach Bergamutach’ (On the Bergamut Islands). The lessons ran under the motto ‘We read books because they take us to fairy-tale worlds’, and along the way the class learnt the sound and letter B.
In Brzechwa’s poem anything is possible: on the Bergamut Islands there is said to live a cat in boots, and an ant carries a donkey. Inspired by this land, the pupils created a joint poster – their own Bookworm Island, inhabited by all kinds of fantastic characters, animals and birds, in other words everything their imaginations suggested.
The journey through fairy tales and stories was also an opportunity for a ‘true or false’ quiz on the interactive whiteboard. Among other things, the children checked who Pinocchio’s father was and where Winnie-the-Pooh lives.
In exercises with the new letter, the pupils wrote capital and lower-case B and identified words containing this sound, such as ‘borsuk’ (badger). It is worth remembering that at the end of a word the letter b is pronounced as p – in the word ‘chleb’ (bread) we hear ‘p’, although we write ‘b’. The spelling is easy to check by changing the form of the word: ‘chleba’, ‘chlebem’.
To mark Book Day, the pupils talked about their favourite books and also made their own mini-books and colourful bookmarks. World Book and Copyright Day, established by UNESCO, is celebrated on 23 April – a good opportunity to show children that reading in Polish can be a real adventure. More photos from the lessons can be seen in the gallery.
