PICNIC / AWFUL / PURPLE
Occasionally, with the lower-ability lower-school kids, I think of random words and get them to write sentences containing those words. They seem to enjoy doing it and there's no forward planning required. A dreamy, terminally disorganised boy who always swings on his chair so much that he falls over backwards (he also has an exasperated father - at parents' evening "I don't know what to do with this boy!") spontaneously composed the following, for picnic/awful/purple:
On a beautiful day watching the purpley orange sunset at an awful picnic, a man said "as long as we're family all we need is each other".
I think there must be an element of repeating things they hear at home.
Occasionally, with the lower-ability lower-school kids, I think of random words and get them to write sentences containing those words. They seem to enjoy doing it and there's no forward planning required. A dreamy, terminally disorganised boy who always swings on his chair so much that he falls over backwards (he also has an exasperated father - at parents' evening "I don't know what to do with this boy!") spontaneously composed the following, for picnic/awful/purple:
On a beautiful day watching the purpley orange sunset at an awful picnic, a man said "as long as we're family all we need is each other".
I think there must be an element of repeating things they hear at home.
