Inspired by: Monster Zoo - Week 3

In an engaging lesson centred around the lively tale from Monster Zoo, young learners are introduced to the importance of using capital letters for names, including those of people, places, and days of the week. The activity is sparked by a scenario where a little boy encounters a chaotic scene upon entering the Monster Zoo. The mischievous monsters have created quite a mess and have forgotten to use capital letters when labelling themselves. The students' task is to correctly rewrite the labels with capital letters and match them to the corresponding monster illustrations, integrating literacy with a potential mathematical element of matching and sorting.

The lesson continues with a focus on the rhythmic aspect of language as students explore rhymes and poems. After re-reading the pages that detail the monsters' antics, children are encouraged to observe the author's choice of words and create new rhymes that describe the monsters' behaviour, enhancing their understanding of rhyme and rhythm. The activity culminates in writing descriptive poems about the monsters, allowing the children to express their creativity while applying their knowledge of rhyming pairs. They are also tasked with composing sentences orally before writing them, as they assign tidying-up jobs to the unruly monsters and create 'Please Do Not' signs, reinforcing sentence structure and the use of imperative language. The lesson concludes with a focus on the prefix 'un-', where the children discuss its impact on word meaning and write diary entries from the boy's perspective, reflecting on the transformation at the zoo and the monsters' eventual cooperation.