The Rule of 3

These questions, and any follow up questions, must be answered in no more and no less than THREE words.

Example:

What is your name?

It is Steve

Do you like your name?

Yes, I do.

Can you spell it?

Yes I can

With letters

Yes with letters

1, What is your name?

2, Where do you live?

3, Tell me about your school?

4, Have you got a pet?

5, Have you got a brother or sister?

6, What do you normally have for breakfast

7, Do you like ice cream?

8, What do you do in your free time?

9, What did you do yesterday?

10, What's the weather like today? 

Homophone

Homophones are pairs of words that sound the same, but have different meanings and spellings.

example: for and four

Here is a list of homophones. Can you think of a word you can pair it with?

1, some
2, sale
3, meat
4, here
5, die
6, break
7, flour
8, right
9, weather

10, sell

Now you have the pairs. Choose one number and make a sentence using both

example: I waited for four days for four people to hand in four assignments for goodness sake.

Purple

All these things are of a similar colour:

1, an aubergine | grapes | plums

2, a bruise | a jellyfish | Barney

3, carrots | a jacaranda tree | lavender

Choose one group of three and:

1, Say three things you know about one of the words?

2, Are any things in the list that are sometimes not purple?

3, How are some things similar in each group of three?

4, Which one is the odd one out in each group?

5, Which ones are useful / positive for you?

6, When was the last time you experienced one of them?

Drawing by Alejandro

Homograph

A Homograph is a word that is spelled the same but has a different meaning.

Can you think of two meanings for these?

1, fly
2, light
3, can
4, bat
5, present
6, second
7, kind
8, park
9, ring
10, saw

Can you make a sentence using both words
For example: for three seconds he was in second place.

Now can you work out any of these from the two meanings?

1, genre of music / a stone
2, to bend at the waist / the front of a boat
3, stress or emphasis / a manner of speaking 
4, to pair similar items / a small stick for making a fire
5, happy or satisfied / all that is contained in something
6, correct / direction opposite of left
7, part of body / to return
8, a trees outer layer / the sound a dog makes
9, hot, arid region / to leave
10, Rip something up / water falling from your eye

Here is a great Homograph application made by Byrdseed.

Linking Park

1, Link the sentences: Level 1.

1, The telephone rang. I was having a shower.

2, You must wait here. I come back.

3, You should peel a banana. You eat it. 

4, You should eat a banana. You peel it. 

5, We can watch the film. I get home.

6, I have lived here. I was a baby.

7, I’ll close the window now. It rains later.

8, I will buy it. I get some money

9, We will have a picnic tomorrow. It’s raining cats and dogs.

Some ideas if needed:

while, in case, after, unless, if, when, before, until, since

2, Link the sentences: Level 2.

Using these words once only:

as | such as | in fact | but | so | or | even though | first, then and finally | and

1, I like this. I don't like that.
2, I like this. I like that
3, She had to do it all again. She never studies.
4, She studies hard. She gets good grades.
5, We could do this. We could do that.
6, I like a lot of sports. I like football. I like tennis. I like basketball.
7, We went for a walk. It was raining. 
8, Turn on the laptop. Enter the password. Open the Platform.
9, I don’t like this and I don’t like that. I don’t like anything.

If I Could Write Words – Spike Milligan

If I could write words
    Like leaves on an autumn forest floor
        What a bonfire my letters would make

If I could speak words of water
    You would drown when I said
        I love you

Remember

This is a simple writing activity inspired by Joe Brainard's book which results in a poetic list of past things by simply completing the sentence:
I remember ___

The topic could be the past in general or something more specific, which i felt would be better in class, like one of the school holidays.

To assist:

What things

What people

What actions

What feelings
What nature

What fun and games

What sights and sounds
What tastes and smells

do you remember from last summer?

Try to expand on sentences rather than just I remember going to the beach. Why did you go? Who with? What happened? What did people say? How did you feel?

TWOtoFIVE

In the spaces below you must try and write between 2 and 5 words. Each word is valued at one point. 25 points available for the five sentences – but they must be grammatically worthy.

Example:
They _____ to the park on Saturdays.
They take their two dogs to the park on Saturdays. (4 points)

1, I _____ to school every day.

2, My cat likes to _____ on the sofa.

3, Can you _____ me your phone, please?

4, She _____ a book from the shop yesterday.

5, We _____ dinner at 9 o'clock every evening.

Artwork by Laura

Green

All these things are of a similar colour:

1, a frog | a snake | seaweed

2, a tree | an apple | a cactus

3, a tennis court | grass | seaweed

Choose one group of three and:

1, Say three things you know about one of the words?

2, Are any things in the list that are sometimes not green?

3, How are some things similar in each group of three?

4, Which one is the odd one out in each group? Why?

5, Which ones are useful / positive for you?

6, When was the last time you experienced one of them?

Green. By my class. #theirwordsmyverse

Speech

Who is the speaker in each of these sentences?
And who is being spoken to?

1, 'Don't sing at the table'

2, 'Is there a tourist office near here?'
3, 'You must train harder'
4, 'I'll have the steak, please'
5, 'You are not allowed to speak during the exam.'
6, 'I've never seen him before in my life.'
7, 'I left it at my grandparents house.'
8, 'Do you know how this started?'
9, 'Where are we?'

10,'Can you slow down a bit!'

Now report these sentences using reported speech or reporting verbs.

Drawing by Hugo

Life of Pi

A PiDay poem is made up of words where the length of each word is the same as each digit of Pi.

For example: The sentence would start with a 3-letter word then a 1-letter word, 4-letter word, 1-letter word, 5-letter word and so on related to the number 3.14159265

Make your own poem.

Here are a couple from my class: