English: Week 9

English Week 9

We can’t believe that it’s been nine weeks since you started learning from home. We loved your poems last week, so keep those emails coming in Year 2.

 Our last text and our new text, are both set near the sea.

This week’s English is going to be all about writing a settings description.

Try your best to be as descriptive as possible. Use those adjectives.

Towards the end of ‘Dolphin Boy’, Jim goes out to sea with his family and the sun is setting.

Michael Morpurgo uses some excellent descriptive sentences to paint a clear picture in our minds of what the setting looks like.

Sunsets are one of my favourite views to see and describe, so this week we are going to use adjectives and similes to create our own settings description. 

Your setting doesn’t have to be a sunset. It could be a rough, stormy sea or of a bright colourful lighthouse.

Can you remember the setting we described from the Tunnel at the beginning of Year 2? Let’s make this one even better!

Lesson 1

LO: To understand new vocabulary

Lots of you enjoyed the vocabulary challenge so we are going to have another go this week!

Can you include these new words in your learning this week?

Today’s task is all about making sure you understand the word/ phrase.

Dusk

Radiant

Splendid

Vast

Mellow

Vivid

Spectacular

Wondrous

Task 1 

Can you use a dictionary or online search engine to find the meaning of the words that you are unsure of?

Task 2

Can you put them into your own  sentences?

Example

The radiant sun sank below the vast horizon to create a spectacular view.

Lesson 2
LO: To create a word bank

Time to gather as many adjectives as you can to describe your setting! Remember to think carefully what type of ‘sea setting’ you want to describe.

Below are some images that might inspire your imagination.

Task

Can you list adjectives and nouns to describe at least four things you can..?

1)    See

2)   Hear

3)   Feel

Example

   golden sun

waves gently lapping at the boat

cool breeze against my face

Lesson 3

LO: To edit and improve sentences

Task

Re-write these sentences in your book. Can you improve them by adding adjectives and/or conjunctions?

The waves hit the lighthouse.

The boat was sailing.

The sun was setting.

They could hear the storm outside

Lesson 4

LO: To write short sentences.

Remember if you chose a stormy scene or a lighthouse, your sentences will be very different to mine.

As we build up our settings description, it’s important that we take our time and make sure all our sentences make sense.

Task

You created wonderful word banks yesterday… can you put any of those ideas into short sentences that make sense?

Remember to use capital letters, full stops and your best handwriting.

Example

In the distance, I could see a golden sun.

When I listened carefully, I could hear the waves gently lapping at the boat.

As we sailed on, I could feel the cool breeze against my skin.

 
Lesson 5

LO: To write a settings description

This week, you have slowly built up your sentence skills. From adjectives into full sentences.

How could we expanded them to write a full settings description?

Yes, conjunctions!

Task

When you re-write your sentences this time can you add some conjunctions?

       And   so   but   because    as    but  

Remember to check your toolkit as you write

·        Adjectives

·        Expanded noun phrases

·        Capital letters

·        Full stops

·        Conjunctions

·        Best presentation

·        Vocabulary challenge

We would love it if you could send us your home learning to year2@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

  Good luck!