We spent the first lesson of our new unit exploring words unfamiliar words from the story.

We sorted the words into; words we know and could explain, words we have heard of but are unsure of the meaning and words we have never heard of.
 

We used a template of an egg to represent this. 
Yolk = words we know

Egg white = words we have heard of but unsure of the meaning 

Crispy edge = words we have never heard if

Next we shared our ideas and spent some time exploring the definitions of these words in the context of the story. We talked about how different words can have different meanings but today we were learning about the meaning in the context of this story.

What might it be like to be in a storm at sea?

We watched some clips of a storm at sea and thought about our five senses. We came up with some ideas of things we might hear, see, smell, touch and taste if we were theree. We then developed our ideas into some super imaginative writing. We experimented with our writing to see if we could use any of the following techniques to make it interesting:  

• Powerful verbs
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Expanded Noun phrases

Here is what we created....