Old Monster Dog:YEAR 1-English-Elaborate

Little J is initially scared to approach the ‘monster’ in the back yard. Encouraged to face his fears, he vows to catch the frilly-necked monster and sets about building a monster trap with the help of Levi.

Elaborate - Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams

Theme - SYMBOLS & SIGNS

Organise a hat parade where the students will make and decorate a hat symbolic of a season of their choice. Students should explore the country to collect flowers, seeds, leaves, etc., to use in their decorative ideas. The hat design can be made out of cardboard and everyday materials found in their environment. Once designed, each student should catwalk the hat and explain why they chose the objects, colours and words to include, and which season the hat represents. Construct a hat display in the class, library or online to share with others.

Encourage students to write a short, sensory poem about their favourite season. In the poem, students should express how they emotionally feel when experiencing the season, what they see and do, the smells and sights. Brainstorm ideas and words that the students could use in the poem. The poem can either be rhyming poem or non-rhyming.

Read and recite familiar nursery rhymes, and have students decode what makes the verse rhyming. Have students explore and identify how the verse is constructed with a short number of lines, how it builds a narrative, which are the descriptive words, the nouns and the action words.

As a class, brainstorm a list of words that students could use and ask the students to suggest further rhyming words. Suggested resources:

flower

pot

sun

cold

warm

bloom

face

winter

power

dot

bun

sold

swarm

swoon

race

splinter

mower

spot

run

bold

born

loom

pace

printer

slower

lot

fun

gold

corn

broom

space

tinter

Develop a simple template that students can use to write or practice their poem. For example:

                                                    “In ………………….., I feel …………………..

                                                     The flowers ………………….. and the insects …………………..

                                                     I can feel the light as it covers my …………………..

                                                    The trees rustle loudly as the wind takes up…………………..”

 

                                                   “I shiver and wriggle in the …………………..

                                                   but love watching the fire’s shimmering …………………..

                                                   Winter is the season I was …………………..

                                                   And I spend my time trying to keep …………………..”

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