Tuesday
To be able to compare the mass of objects using the terms 'heavy' and 'light', 'heavier than', 'lighter than' and 'as heavy as'.
Complete page 133-136
Discuss the title and how it relates to the events in the whole story.
Grammar
An exclamation mark (!) shows strong feelings or excitement at the end of a sentence.
Examples:
- What a lovely day!
- I won!
- Stop!
- Ouch!
- Hooray!
Ask children to decide whether each sentence needs a full stop or an exclamation mark.
- I found a treasure ___
- Look out ___
- We are eating lunch ___
- Hooray, it's my birthday ___
- The cat is sleeping ___
Today we are going to have a practise at writing a story so that we can do our very best writing for our CBBC story.
Let's watch the start of this story to help us out...
Teacher - Watch - Time For A Story | Season 13 | Full Episode | Thomas & Friends UK - watch until 0:24 seconds.
Your teacher will now show you how to write the start of the story using capital letters, full stops, spaces, exclamation marks, and the conjunction 'and'.
Now it is time for you to write the start of the story.
Here are some words that you could use...
warm day, sunny day, delightful day, heavenly day, blissful day
sun - shining, beaming, shimmering, dazzling, glittering
birds - singing, tweeting, chirping, twittering, trilling
Model write for teacher to use
It was a glorious day on the island of Sodor. The sun was shining and the birds were tweeting. Thomas the Tank Engine tooted and whistled on his way to work. He was feeling bright and breezy!