Word Wall

The 5Stars are taking part in the NZ ReadAloud this term.  They are reading a book titled, Finding, by David Hill.  Almost everyday they spend time listening to Mrs Croll read, while developing the art of sketch noting to take notes.

Each week, a series of activities linked to that week's chapter are delivered to their Edmodo group.  This week, one of the activities was a 'word wall'.  This was essentially a list of interesting vocabulary that David Hill used in his writing.  Below is Joe's word definition list and humorous story that includes all the listed words.

My goal:

Finding the definition of words then make a sentence with those words

Words:

• Vessel - A ship or a large boat
• Gouged - To make a hole
• Murmured - To make a low, quiet sound, barely audible
• Fierce - Usually a ferocious, kind of aggression. Sort of scary in a way
• Prattle - To talk in an annoying kind of way
• Glint - Like a small flash of light, usually reflected
• Topple - overbalance, to fall over, or to overthrow or remove someone from the government or like, authority
• Warble - To sing in a kind of way that is like glorious and sweet

Putting the Words Together:

One dark, stormy afternoon, there was a big vessel that couldn’t find the dock probably because the captain doesn’t care that much about his job and instead always liked to warble. The lighthouse made the vessel glint in the stormy day. The steward liked to prattle about what food he likes to the captain which is the probably the main reason why the captain dislikes his job.

The real reason the captain couldn’t see the dock was because there was a giant gorilla in the way, and when I say big, I mean big. The captain murmured something then strided over to the radio. While the captain was doing that, the gorilla yanked up the lighthouse and jumped up high into the air and then crashed back down on the boat, which made the whole boat topple over onto its side!

The captain shouted something at the crew and pushed the annoying steward overboard, he couldn’t take it anymore. Right as the screaming steward plopped into the water, the gorilla gouged a hole in the ship with the lighthouse!

The rest of the story was never recorded but I hope there are no more giant gorilla attacks happening any time soon.