Daily Menu Activities:

1. Bug Club - Reading with comprehension questions.

2. Spell Blast on J2E - Screen Shot and save your scores in your J2E file.

3. TT Blast on J2E - Improve your timestables ready for Friday.

4. Mr Dowsett - Similes

LO: To use similes in our writing.

Activate Prior Knowledge:

Similes...

Beth wyt ti'n meddwl?

What do you think?

What makes this a simile?

The water sparkled like tiny stars in the sky.

Let's find out some information and learn some new facts to help us:

Talk to your partner.

What were the main points you found out?

Time to focus on your senses:

Focus on what you see and what you hear.

What does it make you imagine?

This is going to help us create our own similes.

Tasc 1:

Gwyrdd:

Finish these sentences to create your own similes:

1. The water sparkled like...

2. The river raced by like... 

3. Raindrops fell like...

4. The calm lake was as smooth as...

5. The mist over the lake was like...

6. The lake was as deep as...

Coch:

Finish the sentences below to create your own similes, with a 2Ad at the start of your sentence too:

Similes...

1. The ...... and ...... waterfall flowed down the rocks like...

2. The ...... and ...... cold water felt like...

3. The ...... and ...... river moved through the valley like...

4. The ...... and ...... mist over the lake was like...

5. The ...... and ...... lake was as deep as...