Squirrels

This term we will be using the text Stone Age boy by Satoshi Kitamura

 

Activity One

Look at the Front Cover

 

Write down 5 questions you have about the book now you have seen the cover.  Use the 5 Ws (who, What, Where, When, Why

Activity Two

 

Read the opening paragraph of the text and talk about it with someone. Answer the following questions

 

What do you think about how it starts the story off? 

Does it make you want to read more? 

Where do you think the character is?

What do you think is going to happen next?

Activity Three

 

Read the opening paragraph again, look for the words the author has used for effect (wandered, stumbled) can you think of two other words the author could have used instead, which word do you think is the best? why? Use an online dictionary or thesaurus to help you.

 

Activity Four

Rewrite the descriptive sentences in this opening paragraph. 

Improve the sentence which says "When I woke up, I was in a cold, dark place".

 What else could you see?

Where there any lights?

Noises?

How did you feel etc? 

 

 

Activity Five

 

Clauses can be joined by conjunctions such as coordination (e.g. or / and / but) and subordination (e.g. when / if / that / because). 

Write at least 5 sentences which are joined by conjunctions that the author could have used in this opening paragraph. Such as the space was dark and eerily quiet SO I felt anxious. 

 

Spellings this week

 

Homophones - -words that sound the same but with different meanings or spellings

 

grate, great, grown, groan, main, mane, meat, meet, missed, mist. 

Don't forget to go to the additional information page on Friday at 9:45 to get the code for the Hive Game at 10:00am.  (not sure how it will work with homophones - but it will be fun finding out).

 

Reading this week

We hope that you will do a lot of reading about the stoneage, as well as reading, books, magazines, packets, recipes etc.