Learning Menu
May 12th, 2020.
To find out 'What is a Learning Menu?', click here
This Week's Specials
Regular Read Aloud with Mrs Price! Tuesday 10:30
Mrs Price has agreed to host a read aloud for just our class every week on ZOOM Tuesdays at 10:30am. Use the following Zoom link. The password has been emailed to your parents.
Show and Tell at 2pm everyday this week to meet other students to share together. This week will have three themes: Pets, things your have made, and food. The password has been emailed to your parents.
Appetizers
Jokes are so much funnier when they are told, not just read. Record yourself telling a joke and post it onto your Freshgrade portfolio. If you need help with this please ask me or your parents.
Describe a person in your family using this sheet and the structure words.
Go outside and take a really good look at something in nature (a tree, bug, river, patch of grass). Notice its shape, colours, and lines. Now try to draw it. Make your drawing big and bright, add the details that you noticed. Send it to me to see on Freshgrade.
Main Course
(Lets focus on Writing)
Write a 328 paragraph on what you will bring to show and tell. Watch my video to learn how to write a group of sentences all on one topic (paragraph).
Write a funny story that uses as many of these words as you can: pickle, oranges, gorilla, lemonade stand, outside, inside, kaboom, squirt, ouch.
Take a moment to think about kindness. Watch this video and then write about an example of a time you were kind to someone, or someone else was kind to you.
Check out this picture and the start of its story:
Story starter!
No one knew where they had come from. Nobody had even been there when they appeared. Once word had spread about these mysterious objects, people had started to flock from far and wide.
Sophie loved a mystery, and she herself had journeyed a great way to see if the rumours she had heard were true. She stood on the makeshift stone path that had been hurriedly thrown down to guide the curious onlookers through the scorching desert, and gazed in amazement at the sight that greeted her bewildered eyes…
Continue this story and answer at least for our these questions:
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Where did her journey begin?
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Why was it unexpected
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Where will she go on her adventure?
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What different things will she encounter?
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How will she get back home?
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How might she be feeling about the adventure?
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What will her parents be thinking?
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Would you like to go on an adventure like this?
Desserts
Our local art galler has created this resource to get students started on a 'Daily Draw'. Challenge yourself to send me a new drawing in Freshgrade every day this week!
Use this Story Starter Machine to get your creativity going new places. When writing be sure to use at least one describing word in each of your sentences. Make that writing both clear and interesting!