Learning content: draw on experiences, knowledge of the topic or context to work out the meaning of unknown words and to improve understanding of the text 

Have you ever taken ballet lessons, or do you know someone who does?  Do you think it is easy?  What do you think is important for someone to become a famous ballet dancer? 

Your teacher will share the book The Peasant Prince with you.

In Australia there is a famous art competition, called the Archibald Prize, where artists paint portraits of famous people.  Here is a painting that one artist made of Li Cunxin the ballet dancer, in 2019.

Objective: Learn the meaning of new words, which improves our understanding of texts and so that we can eventually use these words in our own writing.

Peasant - a peasant is a very poor person.  Usually someone who lives outside of the city and who has to grow as much of their own food as possible because they don't have naough money to buy food

Quiver - something that quivers is shaking gently, either from fear or from the cold

Bleak - something that is bleak is gloomy and doesn't look very inviting or cheerful

Survive - to survive means to keep going or to keep living in difficult situations

Now complete your vocabulary sheet and glue it into your book.

Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

Identify and colour code the nouns, verbs adjectives and adverbs in the sentence below. 

Try to improve the sentence by adding WOW words.

Then try to write a sentence following a similar pattern for some writing of your own.

Even though we were poor and the house was crowded, I was happy because there were always lots of people to play with me.

Learning objective: use effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

Adverbs tell us how, when or where actions happen - they describe the verbs/action words.  They help to make our writing more interesting.

Your teacher will give you some flaps to glue into your Literacy books.  Then you will cut out some words and place them under the appropriate flap.  Your work should look a bit like the picture below.

Learning objective: to explore forming letters in such as way as to prepare for cursive/running writing later in the year

Gain more practice with entry rises by completing page 38 and 39 in your Handwriting Conventions book.

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