Let's Cook

On your marks, get set, go!

How quickly can you make biscuits?

Instructions

This week's key writing task is to create a set of instructions that someone could use to make something or to do something like an experiment.

The main criteria for a clear set of instructions include:

Title
A list of ingredients or materials required
Diagrams - pictures of different stages to show how or what to do
A clear sequence and order with numbers to help people to follow the steps
A short easy to follow description of what to do at each step

Here are some examples:

Here are the instructions for the

balloon experiment we did last week.

Step 1

Decide on what you would like to explain how to do

Cooking - How to Make...

Science Experiment

Job Around the House

How to do the..

How to clean a...

How to Fix...

How to Make a...

Step 2

Make a sketch plan of your idea including all the key steps for how to...

Draw some quick draft diagrams

List ingredients and materials

Identify the main steps

Step 3

Write the instructions for each step identified in your plan

Remember Keywords:

Just like writing a recount words like next, then, after that, eventually, when, finally all help to sequence your ideas.

Dangerous

Monday Writing Topic - Dangerous!

Circle Time

Think of something dangerous!

Living or Dead - Real or Fictional

Think pair share - talk with your buddy

Share an idea

Creatures

Places

Situations

People

Things

Times

Brainstorm ideas using the basic organising groups above - Can you come up with 20 ideas?

Take a look at this picture

That looks dangerous!

Here is a planning and thinking structure for your writing.

Let's try it.

Use the structure below to create a series of sentences for the picture.

We'll need some victims (oops! I mean volunteers)

Doing – Number – Texture – Colour – Shape –Position - Size

Planning and thinking structure for your writing

Use the structure below to create a serise of sentences for the picture.

Doing – Number – Texture – Colour – Shape –Position - Size

Near Death Experience

Planning
Thoughts Words Ideas
Digging the ground of your memory and imagination to to find the ideas lurking below the surface.

Why does this scare you? What happened to make this scary do you know? That could be me	What thoughts are going on in your head? That could be me Is this real Is this really happening? unbelievable he's dead he's going to die	Describe what you see startled faces tight rope a huge drop massive cliffs I see astonishment and fear	Describe what you hear and smell a whizzing sound crash bang a word a swearing word a loud petrified swearing word shrill piercing boom echo bird song smell of native bush sun on my face a still peaceful day explosion blood curdling
What is your body doing? Frozen statue like shiver down my spine adrenalin pumping heard pounding run run get help	What do you want to do? wake up from the horror of this hold on to something	What words best describe this situation? time running in slow motion horror abyss abseil rescue	Is everyone afraid of this thing? it was all in the moment I never knew that fear until it happened the shout the scream

Draft

141 words 10 minutes writing – 30 minutes planning – 30 minutes thinking

Created this...

A Moment in Time!

It was unexpected, sudden, and terrifying.

And it started with a word.

Just a word.

A swearing word (that I can’t write down here).

And then the word got louder.

The rope was tight and heavy.

A whizzing sound filled the chasm like a giant zipper being undone.

With the echo of those bad words bouncing off the walls.

And then it hit me

The dread

The feeling

This isn’t happening

This is a dream

Time slowed, almost froze

I was frozen

Petrified

That could be me – I thought

And the noise of the acceleration

The sound of speed building and growing from deep below us

Fear frozen on all our faces

A boom like hammers smashed against the walls of the abyss and our ears

Horror in the realisation

Then a blood curdling – silence

That told us

He was dead

What Frightens You?

This weeks writing task is based on something that frightens you.

We have already brain-stormed some ideas about this.

The next step is to choose one of those ideas and make a plan around that idea.

These key ideas (basic organising ideas) might help you.

MY TOPIC IS ....

Look deeply into your memory and re-imagine

Why does this scare you? What happened to make this scary do you know?	What thoughts are going on in your head?	Describe what you see	Describe what you hear and smell
What is your body doing?	What do you want to do?	What words best describe this situation?	Is everyone afraid of this thing?

How do you put this writing all together?

You are a narrator of a story - you are giving a report to a police man - telling facts about what you see, hear, smell and feel.  Your writing needs to be slightly chatty with a worried concerned feeling that someone is listening as you talk in private with a friend.

The Halfmen of O

Synopsis of the Story

(a brief summary of the plot of a novel, motion picture, play)

COPS – CAPITALS – Overall Sense – Punctuation – Spelling

The Halfmen of O

susan ferris has always felt differint from other childen and the strange mark on her writs sems to have somefing to do wif it hair aventure begins whne she meats jimmy jaspers he sends her through a mine shaft portal to another world susan is thrust into a world split by the powar off the halves a world of good and eval wif the halp of the creatures from another dimenshun she must reset the balanece or be distroyid trying

COPS – Editing - COPS – CAPITALS – Overall Sense – Punctuation – Spelling

1.       read and check it makes sense

2.       decide where the full stops go

3.       add capitals for names, places and the start of sentences

4.       circle possible spelling errors – fix the ones you can – check or get help for the ones you can’t

Fears

What's scary?
What worries you?
What frightens you?
What things are you afraid of?
What would you never ever do?

Use the structure below to help your thinking and list ideas in your journal.

Basic Organising Ideas

Growing Up Responsibility Getting Old!	Places	Unexpected things	Dangerous Things People Places Situations Choices
Activities Extreme Sports	Illness or Injury	Great Unknown Things	?

How could these ideas be used for a short piece of writing?

Could you create a What am I piece of writing about one of these ideas?

And if you think you're not scared of anything take a look at this video. 
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What am I

I have a smooth body
I only have one eye to see the world
You can put me in your pocket
and I will sit still on your hand
I'm not very heavy
I am like a chameleon because I come in different colours
I have some small buttons and a screen
Some of us can go underwater
Some of us have been into space and even visited other planets
You can use me to capture special moments of your life
With a memory that can last forever

Can you guess what I am?

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Think of an everyday item that you use in your daily life and write your own 
What am I
poem

1. Think of an item
2. Brainstorm lots of ideas about this item
3. Write your draft adding detail to your ideas
4. Share your draft
5. COPS editing 
6. Publish