Reading groups.
Extra Games and Activities
In lesson 4, Unit 13 choose and play extra games and activities on your iPads.
Learning Intention: Team up a fascinating fact with one or Sizzling Start techniques to create an engaging introduction for an information report.
What makes a great informative introduction?
Have a look and compare these before and after examples of informative introductions:
Your teacher will read through them
Turn and talk with a partner about what you think the writer did to change these starts to make them sizzle
Discuss with the class what techniques you think the writer used to make the starts sizzle
Have a look at some examples of facts teamed up with a technique to create a sizzling start:
You will now get back into your small groups from last week (Thursday Week 3) and collect your "Our Spinning Planet" planning sheets.
Choose one fact and write it in the Sizzling Start section of the planning sheet.
Together write a Sizzling Start on spare paper. The Sizzling Start must use one of the 10 Spinning Planet facts teamed up with one of these techniques: Action, Question or Story (word picture).
If you finish early you may want to try writing another Sizzling Start using a different technique!
Please keep the planning sheets for the next lesson!
Find the value of each of the pictures.
Your teacher will go through a Treasure Map project with you, and you will complete the Treasure Map activities. You will need to follow a list of instructions very carefully, and include everything listed in the instructions. You have two days to make it. Click through the slides below to see what others have done, but don't rely on what you see, because some of these are good quality and others don't meet all the requirements!
You will get to choose which Autumn leaf design you would like to create.
Using the slides to the right the teacher will show you examples of each style of Autumn artwork. You will get to pick one of these to recreate yourself.
Whirling leaves
Printed leaves
Grid work leaves
Paper batik leaves
Outlined leaves
Mandala
Patterned leaves
Cubist style