Home Learning Week Beg June 15th
This week our learning activities are all based on monsters.
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World famous monster expert Professor Behemoth is putting together a Monsterology of different types of monsters and beasts. He has spent years researching all sorts of weird and wonderful monsters and has a wide variety for his encyclopedia. Your job, is to provide the professor with another entry for his book; you’ll have to use your imagination unless you have actually seen a monster!
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We are going to be writing an information text about a made-up monster or beast. Even though this is a non-fiction genre of writing, we can still be inventive and creative. I like calling it FACTION when teaching it (the form fits information about facts but the content is fiction).
To get us started, here is a model of a fictional information text about swamp monsters. As you are listening, you might want to think about which type of monster you will write about. Have a read below... |
Do you ever wonder what might be lurking in the murky swamps of our world? Rumour has it that the fabled swamp monster is not just a creature mentioned in myth and legend but it actually exists! Now is your chance to find out all that has been discovered about this unique being.
Swamp monsters are rumoured to inhabit the most remote and humid swamps of the Amazon rainforest. Living in total solitude, it is believed that there is, perhaps, only one swamp monster on our planet, making it a mystery how they reproduce. Dr Patrick Thurston - world renowned monsterologist from Bristol University - could perhaps be the only living person ever to see this magnificent creature: “You cannot believe the pure majesty of the swamp monster. They seem as if they are ‘one with the swamp’ living in pure harmony with their habitat.”
Swamp monsters don’t just live in swamps they resemble them. Being experts in camouflage, they are indistinguishable from their environment. Their bodies are made from this environment: limbs of gnarled branches, incredibly long fingers and glowing, iridescent hair which changes colour to match their mood. The most incredible thing about a swamp monster is that they have translucent breathing tubes meaning they can stay underwater indefinitely but continue to breathe.
Have you ever wondered what a swamp monster eats? Their diet consists of herons, rats and even alligators which they hypnotise with their ever-staring, haunting eyes. Transfixed, any animal is helpless to the swamp monster who squeezes the life from them with its lean, powerful limbs. The swamp monster’s tongue has the ability to taste the air; this allows it to identify when its prey is close by.
If you are now tempted to try and spot a swamp monster, we advise extreme caution! This beautiful but deadly creature should be left in solitude to be studied only by experts trained in monsterology.
Swamp monsters are rumoured to inhabit the most remote and humid swamps of the Amazon rainforest. Living in total solitude, it is believed that there is, perhaps, only one swamp monster on our planet, making it a mystery how they reproduce. Dr Patrick Thurston - world renowned monsterologist from Bristol University - could perhaps be the only living person ever to see this magnificent creature: “You cannot believe the pure majesty of the swamp monster. They seem as if they are ‘one with the swamp’ living in pure harmony with their habitat.”
Swamp monsters don’t just live in swamps they resemble them. Being experts in camouflage, they are indistinguishable from their environment. Their bodies are made from this environment: limbs of gnarled branches, incredibly long fingers and glowing, iridescent hair which changes colour to match their mood. The most incredible thing about a swamp monster is that they have translucent breathing tubes meaning they can stay underwater indefinitely but continue to breathe.
Have you ever wondered what a swamp monster eats? Their diet consists of herons, rats and even alligators which they hypnotise with their ever-staring, haunting eyes. Transfixed, any animal is helpless to the swamp monster who squeezes the life from them with its lean, powerful limbs. The swamp monster’s tongue has the ability to taste the air; this allows it to identify when its prey is close by.
If you are now tempted to try and spot a swamp monster, we advise extreme caution! This beautiful but deadly creature should be left in solitude to be studied only by experts trained in monsterology.
Click the monster link below to hear the text being read to you:
Writing Activities
Click the links for some monster maths...
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MONSTER SCIENCE EXPERIMENT
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Supplies Needed:
Get an empty water bottle (1 Litre – smaller would most likely work too). Pour about a half of a cup of vinegar into the plastic bottle and add a few drops of food colouring. Add 2-4 teaspoons of baking soda into the balloon. |
Make a pair of monster hands>>> Monster decimals >>>
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Monster Art Idea!
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Try out this fab effect...Create an opening of some kind... What creature would be behind?
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Book recommendations >>>
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