English - weekly activities 1st June

Lesson 1 

Story Writing

We hope you had a lovely weekend staying in with your grown-ups.  

We are looking at writing a short story this week based on the fantastic image below.

Bubble Adventures

Story Starter

As they floated off the school playground and high above the clouds the children could see...…...

 Lesson 1

LO: To gather information from an image

There is lots of information you can ‘read’ from an image. They can make you think and open up your imagination. Focussing on the image answer the questions below and write your answers in your home learning book.

Task – Question Time!

What do you think the children are called?

How did the children get inside the bubble?

Where are the children's grown-ups?

Who do the children live with?

What do you think the children are thinking?

What can the children see?

How do you think the children feel?

Where will the bubble take them?

Lesson 2

LO: To use adjectives to describe.

An adjective, as you know, is a describing word. When we want to use more than one adjective to describe something you must remember to use a comma.

Task

In your home learning book write five descriptive sentences about the image of the children floating inside their bubble and looking down over Hilltop Academy.

Lesson 3
LO: To edit and improve sentences.

These sentences are ‘sick’. Using your home learning book re-write them to improve them. 

Task

the houses lookt small from inside the bubble.

As they floated out of the playground the children could see the school below.

mrs Macleod was jumping up and down in the playground

you cud see the school field.

the playground was so far away.

Lesson 4
LO: To plan a story

Tomorrow you are going to write an imaginary story.

Remember how important it is to plan our sentences before we start writing them. 

Task

Can you create a story map, to plan what happens to the children as they float off the school playground and up into the air. Remember you can add key words underneath the images to help you.

 

Lesson 5

L.O To write your own imaginary story

What would you need in your writers toolkit?

Writing toolkit

Capital letter and full stops

Full sentences

Conjunctions

Adjectives

Commas

Pre-cursive handwriting

Tall letter – tall

Small letters - small 

Task - Author for a day!

Using your imagination and your story map from yesterday, now write your own story about the children's adventure inside the bubble. You can choose if you want to be inside the bubble of if it is your friends inside. 

Remember to use capital letters for names!

We look forward to reading your stories when you are back in school, or if you don't want to wait send us a photograph of your stories.