This week’s English requires you to use all of the skills you

have learnt from week 3 lessons. We will be looking at

character description, setting description and you will all need

your imaginations! I know from previous lessons that you are

all super at writing great stories. If you can remember the

greek myths you wrote about King Midas a while ago. this

week’s learning is something similar! How exciting!

Have a look at these images, you are

going to watch a video shortly but

first….What do you think this video is

about? Note down some ideas and

description. What can you see? Make a

prediction now!

Now you have made your

prediction and made a note of the

things you can see, go ahead and

watch the video.

https://www.literacyshed.com/dreamgiver.html

Here is the link! When you

click on the video it goes black

and then starts playing (takes

a few seconds)

Now you have watched the video there

are a few things you may not have

known. Here is the summary and ‘blurb’

for the video Silently, a group of orphans sleep in an orphanage.

Quietly, the window shutters open and in crawls a mysterious creature.

He doesn't look too friendly at first but we soon see what his plan is.

This is the Dreamgiver and by cracking his dream eggs he makes sure the children’s nights are

pleasurable. He creates the dreams by cracking the eggs onto stories, posters and ballet shoes. But

what will happen if an egg is accidentally spilt on something not so nice? Well that is what

happens.....

A 'dream egg' is knocked off the bed and onto a 'shadow serpent,' this is surely going to turn into a

nightmare for one of the unlucky children.

Was your prediction correct?

Were your predictions

correct? Which bits?

If you could add

something to the short film

what would you add? You

may have wanted to take

something away?

Were your predictions

wrong?

Now do your own

reflection, I have given

you some ideas to help get

you started!I predicted that the

character was the tooth

fairy as I saw his wings.

I predicted that the

creature was

delivering something,

I could see this on

one of the images.

At the start, I think I

would add snow to

make it feel more like a

dream.

Lesson 2

Dreams

What are dreams?

Dreams are basically stories and

images that our mind creates while

we sleep. They can be vivid. They

can make you feel happy, sad, or

scared. ... Dreams can happen at

any time during sleep.

Now that you know about the film being about

dreams, the next few lessons for English we are

going to look at dreams, create our own, discuss

ideas, create great description and use your

amazing vocabulary skills to help!

Have a think about a dream

you’ve recently had,

whether it made you sad,

happy or scared? What

happened?

Roald Dahl’s story the BFG is based on a giant

who collects children’s dreams (phizzwizards).

Some of you may have seen the film. Your task

now is to look at the images and come up with

some vocabulary to use for description. We are

going to need nouns, adjectives, verbs & adverbs.

Vocabulary

Nouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs

Now you’ve noted down some

vocabulary to describe the

images above make a tree map. You can draw one out or print

this one for a template.

Vocabulary

Nouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs

Here are some examples to

help you!

Whale

Head

Cloud

Flowers

Guitar

Glittery

Purple

Shimmer

Bright

Gigantic

Falling

Dreaming

Throwing

Laughing

Exploring

Subtly

Quietly

Effortlessly

Uncontrollably

Peacefully

Lesson 3

Improving our writing with

our amazing vocabulary!Today’s English job requires

you to look at a piece of

story writing. This is in the

BFG-written by Roald Dahl.

Read the extract from the

text and then using your

vocabulary from the last two

lessons improve this piece of

writing.

Don’t forget, you can share

your work with your

teachers on the google drive,

or email the office, we love

to see your work!

Think about our lessons in

English where we have

written about a scene or a

character….

What do I need to include to

make my writing piece

AMAZING.

Draw the reader in, keep the

reader's interest. Good

humour sometimes helps,

what other things can you

think of?

Feelings?

What would that look like?

Fronted adverbials?

Realistic?

Fantasy?

Remember from

previous English

lessons, How is the

character feeling?

Here are some ideas to help you

improve the text.

Shining

Remember fronted adverbials

help you.

Your list of adverbs from

yesterday's lesson,may help

you. “Shining brightly”

What other noises are

missing? How can you

make this more exciting?

How would it feel to be

like Sophie?

This is good.. What is this an

example of?

Behind the curtain that was rippling

in the wind like a ghost in the night.

(Make this more interesting)

Lesson 4

Creating your own dream jarToday’s English lesson is a bit more FUN!

Using all of the skills you have learnt in

other English lessons, your job is to make

your very own dream jar. You can choose

whatever characters you would like to

feature in your dream. These could be

made up, real or even animals.

Remember to include:

Setting description

Feelings

Humour (if needed)

Interesting and exciting vocab

Speech (if needed)

Step 1- make a plan first (we always plan first in

lessons)

Step 2- Edit your work, you could share on the google

drive with your teachers if you wanted feedback on how

you could improve your work.

Step 3- Write your dream onto your jar

Step 4- Decorate your jar, make it stand out!

Where does this dream

take place?

Do I start off with not

being able to fall

asleep?

Being frightened or

happy?

What is happening

around me, are there

clouds or objects in the

setting?

What are the colours?

Who are the characters in

my dream?

Are they people or

animals?

Are they made up

creatures?

What do they look like?

What is there purpose?

Do they bring joy?

Do they stay in your

dream the whole time?

Is there a problem?

What is happening in

your dream?

Is there a solution, or do

you wake up before the

solution?

Is this something you

have dreamt about

before?

What things go wrong?

Is there anything unusual,

could be something

unexpected (a flying

giraffe?

Remember to use

these boxes to jot

down ideas, you

don’t need to write

your whole plan in

here. Key vocab,

useful reminders etc.

This plan is going to

be needed for next

week’s learning.

These ideas will help

write a story next

week.

Here are some templates, you can

choose to print them to use or you

could even sketch your own.

All of your teachers would love to

see your work. You can share it

with us on the drive or email the

Year 4 email.

We hope you have fun with this

Team 4!

Lesson 5

Describing the characters in our

dream jar Today’s lesson is all about character

description. At school, we have done

this a few times so you should have

amazing ideas for this!

You need to write a short character

description for the people, animals,

creatures etc you have put in your

dream jar. It’s up to you how many

descriptions you are going to do but

once again we would love to see

your work. Don’t forget you can

share your work on the google drive.

Enjoy Team 4!

First step, draw or print a

picture of your dream

character. Label using

amazing vocabulary.

Try and use expanded

noun phrases!

How do they smell and

sound?

Describe using show not

tell.

Think of synonyms

(this means words that

are similar that mean

the same thing)

Timid, shy, nervous.

Legs as long as

ladders.

Use metaphors

they make your

character

description more

interesting.

The patches

on the

giraffe are

gold and

glisten in the

beating,

African

sunshine.

Her happy tail

swoops like an artist's

paintbrush.

(similes help to

personify)

Here are some examples to help you!

Using your ideas that you noted down, now your job

is to write a paragraph describing your character.

Remember to use punctuation, similes and metaphors

if you can, expanded noun phrases and remember to

keep the reader interested.

Here is an example of what yours could look or sound

like!

Enjoy team year 4!

The midday sun was beaming down

on the African Plains as Jemima the

Giraffe stumbled on her legs that

were as long as ladders. On the

peach coloured savannah lay a

young girl, sleeping like a baby.

Jemima’s tail swooped in the air

like an artist's paintbrush to a

canvas. She stopped and had to

think quickly to help the young,

sleeping girl. Jemima was very

timid and nervous and this was

going to be hard for her. She lifted

one golden hoof and tapped the girl

softly and gracefully to wake her.