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Do you also love Putumayo? We have spent many, many traveling hours with Putumayo background... listen to Bananaphone, recorded by Rhonda Vincent Doesn´t music add a lot to poetry? Now look at this poem by N.M. Bodecker (it´s incomplete) Can you recite it? And can you find music that you like (no singing, just music, or it´ll be too confusing) and recite it with that music in the background? I´m sure it will sound wonderful. As with the puppets reciting last week, you can send me the video, I´d love to see it.

Before you do the test, please complete the worksheets I will be sending all families over email (should you not get them, please let me know). They will help you with the IGH and IE ways of writing the long I sound. This is the list NIGHT LIGHT SIGHT FIGHT PIE DIE CRIED DRIES

Kodjo has discovered Michael Rosen for us. Thank you, Kodjo! Watch him performing one of his poems It´s a very, very simple poem, but it works because it´s got two elements you have already been using in class. Repetition, and a surprise at the end that is funny. Notice it doesn´t need to rhyme (but rhyming is fine too). This one is also by Michael Rosen.This time it rhymes and the rythm is very regular, it´s almost a song Your choice now! You can 1. Write about something silly or funny you or someone in your family did. 2. Keep on writing the poem DON´T. What other silly things can you think of, that rhyme? Try to invent at least four. Then I´ll piece them all together on a superlong DON¨t classpoem.

This week we are going to continue learning how to write the long I sound. We will learn that the letters IGH have that sound, as in NIGHT ( the G and H are silent) Also that we can write that sound IE. We usually do because we change a verb ending in -Y, for example I FRY but she FRIES. Please go back to the web page from last week https://www.spellzone.com/unit07/page13.cfm But this time read columns TWO and FOUR, the ones for LIGHT AND KITE. Your practice for today is: 1. Make a list of  three things that make you sigh, three things you would not like to fight, three good things about the night, and three things that give you delight. MIne might start: MAKE ME SIGH:  dustballs,  empty mailbox,  no coffee left. 2. Read this sentence: Today I spy a butterfly in the sky and I try to catch it. Copy it in your notebook BUT changing TODAY for YESTERDAY. What other words do you have to change?

Here is our final writing task this week. (Because you also have to do quite a bit of reading. Are you reading? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM) Look at Liz PIchon, who writes books for kids a bit older than you, explaining caligrams Actually, Caligrams are often made of many words, and they take the shape of what the words are about. LIke this: Now for the exercise. Take paper and pencil and walk around the house. Trace or copy the SHAPE, JUST THE OUTLINE, of at least five different objects in your house. You can put a fork on the paper and trace it, you can copy the chimney, anything you want. Just the shape, in pencil. Great! Now choose the shape you like best. ANd now fill it up with words!YOu can make sentences, like filling up the chimney shape with how much you like the winter, or watching the fire. Or you can just fill it up with hot fiery words like spark and sizzle. As always, if you want, get your family to send me a picture!

The words for this week will be HIDE LIFE LIKE TIME CRY FLY SPY WHY I´m sure you`ll master them!!!

We will be practising the long /i/ sound for a while now. Today we are going to review Words with I-consonant-E, like bite or kite Words ending in Y like sky. We´ve already been using them! So it´s not that hard. Go to the web page https://www.spellzone.com/unit07/page13.cfm With your Mum or Dad, read the BLUE columns, the one under the KITE and the one under the SKY. Now for the exercise: NONSENSE WRITING. Choose seven words from each of the lists ( the KITE and SKY words). Write them on strips of paper, roll them up, and put them all together in a bowl. Now ask someone in your family to write fourteen words on strips of paper and crumple them up in a different bowl. They can be any words! MONKEY, STARFISH, UNDERGROUND... Now start taking words, one from each bowl at a time, and uncrumpling them. Can you make a truly nonsense sentence? Another? Write at least 5 nonsense sentences. If you want, your parents can send me a picture.

Spike Mulligan wrote nonsense verse. And it´s very, very funny! YOu might appreciate Mogo the monkey reciting it, too...  Isn´t that lovely?  Now for the poetry exercise today: Choose a poem. It can be this one or any other. Suggestions of good poets to look into might be:  Spike Mulligan himself  Shel Silverstein  Julia DOnaldson A.A. Milne  REad it out loud. Now read it again. Make sure you say all the tricky words correctly. Try to make it rythmic and musical. Now ask Mum or Dad (or Grandma or Grandpa) to help you record a short video of your favorite toy or puppet, as if they were reciting, not you. You can´t be in the video, not this time. I´d love to see the videos! Ask your MUm and Dad to tell me if I can share them with other classmates.