Writing Tuesday

Morning Primary 1.  Happy Tuesday to you all.  I hope you had a nice break from school work over the long weekend.

Here are today’s lessons for you to have a go at…..

Warm up:

 

• Do you have any play dough,  plasticine, a squishy or something else you can squeeze?  Mixing flour with a little water can make a dough too)

• Lets warm up and strengthen our hand and finger muscles for writing with a bit of Dough Disco, just like we have had fun doing in class!!!

• Dough Disco is a series of fine muscle exercises that were invented by Shonette Bason Wood.

• Don’t worry if you don’t have anything to squeeze, doing the actions will still help your hands warm up a bit.

• Click on the following link to go to the Dough Disco with the inventor herself:

Today we are going to write about the picture.

• Look at the picture below.  Talk about it with someone at home.

A Rainy Day

Here are some questions to talk about:

Who is in the story?	Where could they be?	What are they doing?
Where are they?	What can you see?	How do you think they feel?

• Write about the picture using sentences.

 

• Here are some words you could use in your story:

boots	boy	girl
rain	umbrella	clouds

• Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

• Try to include a joining word (and, so, but, because) to join two sentences together.

   

Extra Challenge:

• Can you use any describing words to add extra detail to your story?

Example: red boots, dark clouds.

 

Fun Dough Disco Challenge

• Can you find a favourite Disco song to do some Dough Disco to?  The one we used a lot in class was Proud Mary by Ike and Tina Turner:

• We used to roll the dough at the ‘rolling’ bit.  It starts slow and speeds up so we had to go faster and faster!  Do you remember boys and girls?  Seems like such a long time ago now.

• I hope you can have some fun dancing and squeezing your dough to some disco songs!  I’m sure your grown ups will have their own favourite disco songs too.