Today's words are: subtract, joy, shore, chair, oh, seed, as, period, shell.
Later today I have a small group of 10 year old students.We only have 45 minutes together but we are dealing with some quite short attention spans.
My plan:
1 - Speech bubbles - add these to the wizard pictures we drew last week (draw, fold, pass). Each child to write a speach bubble, then turn the paper to hide it & pass it on. When finished, each child reads aloud all the speech bubbles on the page they have.
2 - Read a short story - the sword in the stone was far too difficult for them last week - so something easier. Maybe we can take turns in reading something out.
3 - A game - the same theme. Maybe we can invent one after looking at the story? This could be complicated, but definitely worth a tryl
Hmm... where to find a story - I have to teach in 2 hours time - so can't write one myself. I found this one by Adrian Kerr:
The wizard of Know
Once upon a time, a long long time ago there lived an old wizard called
Know. He was so old that often he would forget what he was saying in
mid sentence. Once he was in the middle of a spell to change a fish
into a beautiful girl and he forgot what he was supposed to say next.
This happened rather a lot with this particular spell and as a result
there were mermaids swimming in the village pond.
There was also white rabbits hopping about, speaking perfect English
and small boys who couldn?t speak a word and who would sit in trees
all day whistling and singing like birds and collecting twigs for to
build nests with. In fact the whole island was littered with such strange
sights, all because of the silly old wizard who couldn?t remember the
last parts of his spells.
Many people on the island thought they could cure him of
this habit only to find the old wizard remembering the last bit but forgetting
the start of missing great chunks out of the middle. Again, this would
create even funnier things on the island.
There were apple trees that would bark at you as you passed. There were
mooing vicars, flying carrots, sheep who insisted on singing in the village
quire and teachers who refused to do anything all day but lie on their
backs in muddy pools grunting and snorting and grubbing for scraps and
slops and anything they could lay their dirty little hands on.
?
Nobody knew what to do for the best. One day an old witch landed on the island. She was so old that she too forgot parts of spells ? only the first parts. Needless to say the place where she came from was also littered with these strange sights. Her name was Witch How and when she heard of the old wizard she insisted on trying to help him.As soon as they met it was love at first sight and shortly after that they got married and became known as Mr & Mrs Know-how. Needless to say whenever they cast spells they did it together and until this day they never cast a single faulty spell.
