This week we are going to look at a different story. We are looking at, “There’s an alien in your book” by Tom Flecher. I tried something a little different and had my little one help with the story, hope everyone doesn’t mind. As the English task is an inference/prediction task could you please pause the English video on the front cover and complete the task first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8LCpl3oVD8&feature=youtu.be.
English and Topic-your own story
I would like you to create your own story for a young child following the pattern of the book. Instead of an alien you will need to create your own creature. It could be your favourite animal, a monster or fantasy creature like a fairy/gnome etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiVqbQm6d20 this video shows a simple way to create a homemade booklet. Alternatively you could create an ebeek using Jit 5 and the mix tab.
- Bronze. Choose your own creature and create 1 page. Don’t forget to include an action for your reader. (Flap the book, whisper to the giant ETC)
- Bronze topic. Can you add a drawing of your creature?
- Silver. Create your own story, concentrating on action words.
- Silver topic. Add illustrations for each page. It would be great if you could show your creature reacting to the actions you are asking the reader to do.
- Gold. Add a front cover. Remember this includes your name as the author and illustrator.
- Gold topic. The front cover needs to be colourful and exciting to entice the reader to look at the book.
Maths-quarters and halves.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbpxdp3. We shall use the games on activity 3 to explore quarters and halves
- Bronze. Game 5 Shading fractions. Have a go at shading in halves and quarters. You might need to explain the symbol for half and a quarter.
- Silver. Game 4 fraction shapes. Remember for it to be a half it needs to be two equal pieces. A quarter needs to be 4 equal pieces.
- Gold. Game 9-beat the clock