Leopard Class Week 4- 11.5.20

Weekly English ideas

English- Week 4 – 11/5/20 Good morning, Welcome to week 4 of Leopards English learning. Thank you again for all the lovely emails and pictures of all your hard work. It was a pleasure reading through your Jack and the Beanstalk stories. It is good to see that you are working hard on your presentation of work. Keep up the hard work and well done. The English focus for this week is a new fairy tale- ‘The Gingerbread Man’. This week the children will be following instructions to make gingerbread men or another recipe. Then the children will write their own instructions on what they have baked. If you don’t want to bake then you could following instructions in a different manner e.g. making a Lego model and then writing instructions for making that model. Please do keep sending through your pictures and photographs, to show us your hard work. Any problems please do email me. Have fun. Mrs Sealy and the Leopards Team leopards@bratton.wilts.sch.uk

Lesson 1-Read- The Gingerbread Man This week in writing we are going to be reading ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and then using this to help us bake gingerbread men and then write instructions. In today’s lesson I would like the children to read or watch a retelling of the Gingerbread Man. On the schools You Tube channel- under Leopard class videos- watch Mrs Sealy retell the story or alternatively the links below are some other versions. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCww7F97lxXtPUWEZ9d7KX9g/playlists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoQyyB5xvLk https://www.enchantedlearning.com/stories/folktale/gingerbreadman/story/ Then discuss the story. -What happens in the story? Who are the main characters? Who was your favourite character and why? If you were the author what would you change about the story and why?

After you have spent some time reading and discussing the story. I would like you to think about what you would do if the gingerbread man jumped out of your oven. You could write on the worksheet provided on the following slide or you create your own independently. Don’t forget to include: • Full stops, capital letters and any other punctuation • Exciting vocabulary choices • Neatly joined handwriting • Try and vary your sentence starters.

Lesson 2- Instructions In todays lesson I would like the children to find out all about instructions. Ask the following questions: • What are instructions? • What do they help us do? • What examples of instructions can you think of? • What do you know about instructions? (They have to be clear, easy to

follow, in chronological order, tell what and how to do something)

Some examples of instructions: Recipes Lego models How to make or fix something How to build furniture Can you think of any more?

An instruction text is a piece of non-fiction text which gives instructions on how to complete a task. The text may include organisational devices such as bullet points or numbers, diagrams or pictures.

Today there are three activities for you to choose from on the following slides. These activities are a way of getting the children to think about how important it is for instructions to be clear and precise and easy to follow. Activity 1- children to cut out and stick the instructions in the correct order. Activity 2- children to follow a set of instructions to build/make something. Activity 3- children could have a go at writing a simple set of instructions for example washing your hands, cleaning your teeth or getting dressed. Then you try out the instructions to see if they work. After they have completed one or both, have a discussion about the instructions. What did they find out? What is important about instructions? What do instructions have to have? What did you notice about the two sets of instructions?

Activity 1- can you put these instructions in the correct order?

Activity 2- Can you follow these instructions. How did you get on?

Activity 2- Can you follow these instructions. How did you get on?

Activity 3- Try writing your own instructions for somebody to follow. Could they follow them?

Lesson 3- Making gingerbread man or following another recipe or set of instructions

https://www.netmums.com/recipes/easy-gingerbread-recipe

In todays lesson I would like the children to practise following a set of instructions. As this weeks focus is ‘The Gingerbread Man’ I thought it might be a nice opportunity for the children to do some baking. They could either make gingerbread men, or simple fairy cakes or something of there choice. The purpose of today is that the children can follow instructions on a recipe. As you are following the recipe talk it through, discuss the words and the layout of the recipe. Obviously you may not want to bake anything, which again is fine. So why not make a Lego model following instructions. The children are going to follow a set of instructions and then tomorrow they will write their own set of instructions for making whatever they bake or make today. I have included some links to simple gingerbread recipes, you may already have your own. I have also included a craft activity with instructions on how to make a spider, in case you don’t want to bake.

https://www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/gingerbread-men/

Lesson 4 and 5- Writing instructions In today’s lesson I would like the children to write a set of instructions linked to their baking or making from yesterday. This maybe instructions for gingerbread men if you made these or maybe you made a Lego model. You will need to write instructions to tell somebody how to make the model or baking. This activity in class would span over two days approximately 30 minutes each day. In class we would write a section and then edit and check it makes sense. The link below is advice on how to write a set of instructions and things to think about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2189sv8Bvy4 On the following slides I have put some key word mats and some possible writing templates, but please free to write it freely on some lined paper. At the end there is a checklist of key things to include when writing instructions. Mrs Smith this week has been busy baking ginger bread men and has written some of her own instructions on how she made her gingerbread men yesterday as a model for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=IVU8AvBScvA&feature=emb_logo

Mrs Smith’s example of instructions Title- what she is making

‘You will need’ list Including how much of each ingredient

A top tip/warning included

Mrs Smith’s instructions continued

Title

Numbered instructions- to give you an order to follow

Instructional vocabulary for cooking

Time connectives

‘Bossy’ verbs used- put, place, remove, add

Now that you have written your instructions check the list above and highlight on your work or tick whether you have included all of these in your writing. Well done on another super week of English