Year 1 Term 2 Week 4 Inventors Centre Prompt: Create a monster using the blocks and your imagination. ● Revisit the prompt in the Inventors Centre. Explain to the students that the prompt is asking you to create a monster using the blocks and your imagination. The next step is to draw a replica of the monster you created from blocks and write a matching description. Discuss the meaning of replica. Discuss why the monster drawn needs to be the same as the monster created using blocks. ●Explain to the students that they are going to participate in an activity to show them the importance of listening to a text and making sure the illustration matches the text exactly. Choose 4 or 5 students to come sit on the chairs at the front of the class. Give them each a green and blue marker and a whiteboard. Teacher reads the following paragraph aloud and have students draw what they hear. Choose 4 or 5 students to come sit on the chairs at the front of the class. Give them each a green and blue marker and a whiteboard. Teacher reads the following paragraph aloud and have students draw what they hear. My name is Melvin. I am a green monster. My body is oval-shaped like a potato and covered with warts. I look out from under your bed with my one blue eye, right in the middle of my head. You’ll hear me breathing with my big mouth, but I hope you don’t laugh because I only have five teeth: 3 on top and 2 on the bottom. It’s because I can’t brush my teeth! My stubby arms won’t reach, and I can hardly pick up a toothbrush with my fat fingers. I run around on four feet, and sometimes I trip on my long-lizard like tail! ● Have the students reveal their drawn Monster of Melvin to the rest of the class. Discuss the similarities and differences in their drawings and have them tell you what you could add to your paragraph to be more specific to help their monsters look identical to the one described in the paragraph. Point out the importance of how detailed the description needs to be. ● Show the students the 3D animated short story: I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll and Howard McWilliam. Ask students to observe the different monsters in the story and identify the different adjectives that described each monster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RpXyGkDoYDQTPS Why do you think Ethan wasn’t scared of the other monsters? Why did he prefer Gabe the monster? Identify what Gabe looked like, what kind of monster he was and the different adjectives that were used in the story to describe him. ● Show the students the Character traits poster and discuss what to include in a character description. Have students look at the illustration of Gabe the monster. TPS some adjectives to describe the monster. Share responses with the class. Teacher scribes’ responses on chart under the appropriate 5 senses pictures.
● Explain that a good description has detailed physical traits as well as personality traits of the character being described. ● Refer back to the Inventors Prompt and remind students of the importance of what makes a good description. Brainstorm different ways the students can record their descriptions. eg take a photo, draw a picture or record the monster they have created; to share with others.
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