Monday Prepositions – Please don’t complete this work until we have finished Monday’s zoom lesson.

Prepositions

1. Using the preposition word mat on the year 4 page, look at the picture and write 5 prepositional phrases about it. Underline the preposition in your sentence.

For example: The guitar is on the floor

2. Add a prepositional phrase to the end of these

sentences to show where the events happened.

a) The boy climbed over the fence

b) The man was standing

c) The girl jumped

d) The dog ran

Chose two of the sentences you have just written and change the position of the prepositional phrase.

Although they are only little words, prepositions are very important. Changing the preposition can totally change the meaning of a sentence. For example: The car drove through the water

The car drove by the water

The car drove under the water

4. Change the meaning of each of these sentences by changing the preposition.

a) The cat was sitting by the box

b) The path went behind the woods

c) The boy scrambled through the hedge

d) Sophie walked by the river

e) George was hiding in the bin

Tuesday – Fronted Adverbials. Different ways of opening a sentence.

Step 1 – Watch the full clip of the lighthouse again.

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-lighthouse.html

Over the next three days we will be building up to a piece of descriptive writing about the lighthouse, so make yourself familiar with the story by watching it a few times and look back at your story board from last week.

Step 2 – Fronted adverbials to describe how and why.

Today we are going to look at fronted adverbials that describe how and why something happens.

Adverb

Where

Can you come up with your own sentence using fronted adverbials to tell us where something is around the lighthouse? Use the word bank from Monday to help you.

Step 3 – Adverb Warm Up

What is an adverb?

Can you write an explanation of what an adverb is? If you’re not sure use this link to help you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zgsgxfr

Where – Yesterday we looked at lots of prepositions to tell us where things were in the picture. We can use a prepositional phrase as a fronted adverbial.

For Example: On top of the dark hill, the lighthouse stood proud.

Mild:

Rewrite the sentence below into your book:

1. Highlight the verbs in the sentence.

2. Now underline the adverb.

3. Label where you think the fronted adverbial is in the sentence.

The wave crashed against the jagged rocks.

Rewrite this sentence, then underline the verb. Can you come up with an adverb to describe that verb?

Spicy:

Rewrite the sentence into your book:

1. Highlight the verbs in the sentence.

2. Now underline the adverb.

3. Label where you think the fronted adverbial is in the sentence.

The waves crashed against the jagged rocks.

Rewrite this sentence, then underline the verb. Can you come up with an adverb to describe that verb?

Now can you highlight the prepositional phrase in the sentence. Can you use it as a fronted adverbial?

Hot:

Rewrite the sentence below into your book:

1. Highlight the verbs in the sentence.

2. Now underline the adverb.

3. Label where you think the fronted adverbial is in the sentence.

The waves crashed.

Can you come up with three sentences that use either an adverb or a prepositional phrase to describe how moves or where it is?

Sentence for the chilli challenge:

Merrily, the villagers laughed and chattered late into the evening, cheering and applauding every time the familiar light circled.

Wednesday – Time related Fronted Adverbials

Step 1 – First watch the video again.

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-lighthouse.html

Find your story board from last week. Are you happy that you have included all the important parts of the story and that you have got your story board in chronological order?

Step 2 Warm Up – Sometimes we might want to use a time connective to say when something is happening as a fronted adverbial. It is important to use these when placing events of a story in order.

While watching the video below, can you write down all the words that you notice that tell us when something is happening.

For example:

Firstly, shake hands with a very friendly fish.

‘Firstly’ is our time related fronted adverbial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seaeluxIsqw

How many did you find?

Step 3 – Using the time connectives from the video, create some sentences using fronted adverbials to explain when each part of the story is happening.

Mild:

Using a time connective as a fronted adverbial edit the sentences below to describe when each thing happens in the story.

1. The light stopped spinning.

2. The lighthouse keeper climbed the stairs.

3. The lighthouse keeper saw a boat appear.

4. The light smashed on the floor.

Now can you come up with one more sentence that uses a time related fronted adverbial to describe what happens next.

Spicy:

Look at your story board.

1. Can you write a short sentence to describe what is happening in each picture?

2. Using the time connectives that you have discovered today from the video; can you create a time related fronted adverbial for each sentence?

Hot:

Using the time connectives from the video, create a sentence for each picture that uses a time related fronted adverbial to describe when something is happening in the story.

Thursday – Planning your descriptive piece of writing

Our next step is to plan our descriptive piece of writing for the lighthouse.

Step 1 Warm Up – Today we are going to plan our lighthouse narrative.

Close your eyes and think of the picture. What can you smell, see and hear?

Using the sense word mat below can you come up with three sentences for the following:

· What can you smell while walking through the streets of the village?

· What sounds can you hear while standing on top of the light house?

· What can you see out at sea or in the sky?

Senses Adjectives

Sight:

dark

shiny

long

skinny

fat

thin

small

large

speckled

light

bright

dotted

Smell:

fresh

delicious

bitter

rotten

salty

smoky

sour

spicy

stale

stinky

sweet

Sounds:

loud

noisy

quiet

silent

squeaky

creaky

melodic

fizzy

shrill

deafening

faint

Step 3 – Planning. Use this plan to come up with some exciting sentences using fronted adverbials.

Everybody: Write an opening sentence that describes where the lighthouse is?

Spicy and Hot: Write down a sentence using a fronted adverbial, that tells us what you can hear and smell from the cliffs. (Use the sense word mat to help you)

Everybody: Using an adverb for a fronted adverbial, can you write a sentence that describes how the people in the pub are cheering?

Everybody: Use adjectives to describe the lighthouse keeper. (Be a bit more detailed than just old!)

Everybody: Use a time connective as a fronted adverbial to describe what happens to the light.

Spicy and Hot: Use an adverb as a fronted adverbial to explain how the lighthouse keeper felt when the light smash on the floor.

Everybody: Using a prepositional phrase, or a time connective, as a fronted adverbial, write a sentence to describe what the people do next. (EG Outside the door, the lighthouse keeper could hear the towns people walking up the hill.)

Hot: Using a simile as a fronted adverbial, can you come up with a sentence to explain what happens next. (EG As quick as a flash, the townspeople ran up the stairs to light the lighthouse.)

Friday - Descriptive narrative for the lighthouse

Today I would like you to write a descriptive narrative for the lighthouse using all the different kinds of fronted adverbials and exciting vocabulary that we have looked at over the last two weeks.

It’s now time to write your descriptive narrative. Make sure that you use your plan from yesterday and your story board. Use each sentence from your plan as a starting point for each section of your writing. Remember there needs to be a new paragraph for each part of your story.

New idea/time = New paragraph

Make sure you use as many different types of fronted adverbials as possible to describe where, when and how something happens.

For Example:

Above the brightly lit village, the imposing lighthouse stood. Dramatically, the clouds were spiraling around the wind-swept lighthouse. Brightly, the lights shown from every window as the darkness set in. Beside the towering lighthouse, the jagged rocks stop the powerful waves from flooding the village. Covering the lighthouse, the salty waves scent the air.