Good morning Class 4!
Today we are doing a writing task using everything we have learnt so far this week in English.
This is a long blog to read and I am sorry for all of the information but please read it very carefully so that you are clear on what you need to do.
This week, we looked at imperative verbs.
Imperative verbs are verbs which tell someone what to do. They are sometimes called ‘bossy verbs’.
For example:
Throw the potion into the sea.
Toss the wood into the pan.
Sprinkle the light bulb into the potion.
We also looked at a potion to create a tempest which had organisational devices such as subheadings and bullet points.
Your Task:
The Primary Shakespeare Company would like you to write your own spell for Prospero, just like the one we looked at earlier this week.
You need to think carefully about what to include…
- You need to think about what your potion does.
- Give your spell a catchy title.
- Next, write a few sentences explaining and describing your spell. What does it do? What effects does it have? Why might it be needed?
- You must include subheadings (for example, ‘Ingredients’ and ‘Method’).
- Think about some ingredients from different Shakespeare plays (for example, cobweb, sea holly or dragon scale).
- For your method, you need to use imperative verbs to explain how to create your spell (try to use a variety of imperative verbs, not the same one for each bullet point).
- You need to use bullet points correctly for your ingredients and method sections.
You can write your spell on paper. This blog is for you to share some of your ideas, a bit like in class when I use the iPad to show snippets of people’s work on the board and we all give ideas of how they can make it even better. You might have a few sentences that you want to share. If you type them on the blog, we can all give feedback to each other, that means say something you think that person has done well and a tip of what they can do to make it even better. Or you might ask the class for some help, such as some ideas for imperative verbs.
Remember, this is a writing task so you do not need to send me the finished piece today, but please try to send me some of your sentences so that you can have some feedback. Then you can go back and make improvements before sending me or typing up your final piece on tomorrow’s blog.
Think carefully about spelling, punctuation and using exciting words!
I look forward to hearing your ideas and reading some of your first sentences on the blog today!
Need some help?
Look at this writing a spell Template from the Primary Shakespeare Company.
Good luck and have fun!
From Miss Lee.
Hi miss Lee!
Can I write on my yellow book?
Hi Stella!
Yes, you can write it in your yellow book but please can you type some on your work on this blog also so that you can get some feedback from myself and some of your classmates. Then you can go back and edit your work to make it even better ready to publish tomorrow!
THE REVIVAL POTION
The revival potion is where the person who makes the potion chooses a person who can be brang back to life.This potion can be used on people who are still alive because you give them an extra life.
INGREDIENTS
What you would need to make the revival potion is
*A magician’s sugar
* Wood from the amazon rainforest (Quantity 55)
*Ash from a burnt tree
*lava from a fresh volcano
*Dead coral from the Atlantic Ocean (Quantity 4)
*a llamas tear from the Sahara desert (fresh)
METHOD
Put lava under the pot to give it fuel.add magician’s sugar and 20 wood (from Amazon rainforest)then put dead coral and ash into a blender wait for a minute.Go back to the pot and keep it stirring until you hear a sizzle. Go back to the blender and get ready with your glass potion pot because you do not won’t to lose any ash. Now finally put the llamas tear into the pot and that will cool the pot down then pour it into the potion pot. When you have drunk it you will have to say there full name to give it a revival or extra life.
PS. Only for Prospero!
Some very creative ingredients!
Can you add some descriptive adjectives to your ingredients list?
For example ‘A glistening llama’s tear from the Sahara Desert’.
For your method, I love the use of the word ‘sizzle’. It really helps me imagine what the spell sounds like as you are making it.
Can you use bullet points for your method? Try to start each bullet point with a different imperative verb.
For example:
– Put boiling lava under the pot to give it fuel.
– Sprinkle in magician’s sugar.
– Throw in twenty pieces of wood from the Amazon Rainforest.
The Lock Down Potion.
The Lock down Potion, freezes the object immediately and, turns the object into plastic.
The effect of my Potion is too turn anyone into plastic thus making them unable to run away.
Ingredients
° Empty Crisp Packet
° Very Large Glass Lid
° 5 Red and two drops of Green, and a whole bottle of Blue Food Colouring
° Spoon made from a Dragons Tongue
° Sodium Alginate
° One Syringe
° Container made from magician’s Teeth.
Method
°Put in the Red, Blue and Green food colouring into the container made from magician’s teeth.
°Add the Soldium Alignate, stir it very slowly anti clockwise with the Dragon’s Tongue Spoon.
°Using the syringe, put the liquid mixture into the large glass lid. Being careful not to spill a drop.
°Leave the Potion for 24 hours to mature, then it’s ready.
An interesting idea Ciana!
Can you add more detail to the first part. Why might you need to stop someone running away?
I like the different ingredients you have thought of. Some of it sounds like equipment you would use rather than things going into your spell. Perhaps you could create another subheading for this so that you will have ‘Ingredients’, ‘Equipment’ and then ‘Method’. Then you can add some more imaginative ingredients.
I like your method, particularly the ‘stir anti-clockwise’ instruction. It makes it sound like it is a dangerous spell to make so it must be made carefully with specific instructions.
Can you think of some more exciting imperative verbs such as ‘sprinkle’ or ‘drizzle’ to start your bullet points with?
The time freezing potion
The time freezing potion has the ability to freeze time itself!
Ingredients:
A teaspoon of ice-cold water from the deepest part of the ocean
A scale from a sea-serpent
A winter cry onion
An eagle berry
3 yeti hairs
5 drops of pixie juice
Ashes from a phoenix nest
A feather from a winged horse
And of course a shard of freezing cold ice from the North Pole!
Method:
Chop the cry onion into tiny bits.
Grind the scale with a pestle and mortar until it’s dust.
Mix the ice-cold water, the ground scale, cry onion and hairs together.
Stir clockwise for 3 minutes.
Drizzle the pixie juice over it.
Sprinkle the ashes and the juice of the berry onto the mixture.
Dip the feather and the shard into the solution for half a minute.
Freeze for a week.
What creative ingredients! Can you make them sound even more special by adding a descriptive adjective?
For example, ‘A delicate feather from a winged horse’.
You have used some great imperative verbs for your method. They are varied too which is wonderful!
Maybe you could explain what each step of your method is for to add even more detail?
For example, ‘Stir anti-clockwise to begin freezing time’ or ‘Dip in the glistening shard of ice to stop all of the clocks around the world’.
THE SPELL THAT MAKES YOU DISAPPEAR!
An invisibility potion must be done quickly and sensibly in case of an emergency. It will stop other people from seeing you ✋. We might need my spell because if you’re very cheeky you might want to run away from somebody telling you off. ?
Ingredients:
– A big handful of pond weed
– Three pink seashells
– Vampire dust ?♂️
– Five fish eggs?
– Hot water♨
Method:
1. Put hot water into a cauldron ?.
2. Add three pink sea shells to the hot water.
3. Put a big handful of pond weed into the cauldron.
4. Keep on stirring until the liquid is bubbling dark green.
5. Add five cracked fish eggs and mix. ?
6. Let it rest for half an hour.
7. Add one table spoon of vampire dust?.
8. Mix all the ingredients together and it is ready to use!
I love the explanation at the beginning, great work! It makes your invisibility spell sound secretive and magical!
Can you add some exciting adjectives to describe your ingredients?
For example ‘Five shiny, spherical fish eggs.’
THE SPIRIT
WHAT YOU NEED.
#a zombies eyeball
#a gremlins tail
#4 candycorns
#a dragons scale
#empty pumpkin
MAKING
First, get an empty pumpkin
Throw in the zombies eyeball
Toss in the gremlins tail
Put the candycorns in but eat one.
Throw in the dragons scale.
stir firmly
If you see a face come up on the pumpkin, and it starts talking to you, then you have summoned the spirit.
you better run!!!??♀️??♂️
Some good ideas!
Well done for using subheadings and bullet points.
Can you think about adding some exciting adjectives to your ingredients list?
Also, think about how this spell might be used by Prospero. Add a few sentences at the beginning to explain it and describe what it would be used for.
A back in time potion ?
You will need…
*a dragons scale
*a mummy’s hand
*a goblins eye
* rocket fuel
*a tigers tail
*a pot
*a birds wing
*a pickle
*a dead fish
*a spoon made out of rocks
*seawater
*a piece of rock from the Grand Canyon
*a colour sucker
*tiny pot
*tank
*magical grass
*card spoon
*grinder
Method:
*Get the pot and the spoon ready
*get the dead fish and squeeze the water out of it
*then put 300ml of seawater
*then with the colour sucker and the tigers tail,suck the colour and blood from the tigers tail until there is no fur left and his skin is pale.
* then,pick the dragging scale off and put it into the pot.
*pick the feathers off of the bird and keep one for last.
*rap the mummy’s bandages off it’s hand and squeeze out the magical olive oil and put it in the pot
*put the rocket fuel in the tiny pot and mix it with the card spoon until it gets al soggy and just plop it in the bowl and leave it to stick for 15 minutes and then put it in the pot
*get the rock from the Grand Canyon and the grinder and grind up the rock.
* get the goblins eye and the grass and grind then also grind it.
*get the pickle and snap it in half
*put the last bird feather and put it in the pot and put everything into the bowl and stir it whith the spoon.
*leave it for 10 minutes and put it into the tank.
*bathe in it for 20 hours and dream which time you will go to.
(Only works once)(please think responsibly)
Some interesting ideas well done! I like the ‘piece of rock from the Grand Canyon’ as this makes your spell sound hard to make and therefore important!
Can you use some varied imperative verbs for your method. Start your sentences with these rather than starting with ‘then’.
For example, ‘Pour in 300ml of salty sea water.’
I will try my hardest, miss.
Chalk shock
The Chalk shock makes all the illnesses go away. It also makes everyone feel better.
Things you need:
. blender
. ash
.tissues
.dragon’s breath
.bat’s wing
.spider’s eye
.soup
.bowl
.potion bottle
Method:
.put ash in bowl
.add spider’s eye
.add a bit of bat’s wing
.stir with hand
.crush with hand
.put it in blender
.pour in potion bottle
.make soup
.put ash in soup
.put dragon’s breath in soup
.rip up some tissues
.wet them
.put tissues in soup
.pour soup in potion bottle
.shake up potion bottle
And now you have your potion that you have to drink. .
Great ideas Pablo!
You have set out your work clearly using subheadings and bullet points correctly, well done!
For the ingredients, can you add some exciting adjectives? Imagine your spell is in Prospero’s spell book. You want yours to sound interesting so that it stands out and makes Prospero want to try it!
For example, ‘mystical dragon’s breath’.
My potion is called The Wizardy.
INGREDIENTS:
– Add the cobweb slowly and carefully into the potion.
– Next add the sea holly gently.
– Then throw the dragon scale in the potion before a big cloud of dust comes out.
– sprinkle the light bulb all over the potion ?
Good work Ajay!
This sounds more like your method rather than your ingredients.
You have used some great imperative verbs!
Can you write an ingredients list with some exciting adjectives?
The title of my spell is: Invisiblia Volantes!
Can you guess what it does?
Ingredients:
. the breath of a ghost
.the tail feathers of a phoenix
.the eyelashes of a hippopotamus
.two blades of freshly cut grass
.2g of acid
Ooh I’m not sure if I can guess exactly but I think it might be something to do with turning invisible?
Great ingredients, very imaginative! I like the ‘breath of a ghost.’
Can you add some exciting adjectives to describe your ingredients?
For example, ‘Two emerald blades of freshly cut grass.’
I look forward to reading the rest of your spell!
Remember capital letters and full stops!
I am guessing it is an invisibility spell ??
How to make a ball of destruction
Ingredients:
-silk from a tarantula’s web
-the flames from a dragon’s stomach ??
-iron from the core of the earth ?
-a Megalodon’s tooth ?
-the skin of a comodo dragon
a spell book ?
-molten plastic
-a handful of wires
-a cauldron made of gold
How to get the flame from the dragon :
Knock it out and slit open the stomach. Then take some dry wood and put the wood in the fire until it is burning.
How to make ball:
Burn the spell book with the dragon’s flames and then throw the ashes into the cauldron. Then take the silk and tie the wires to the tooth. Cover it with the molten plastic and lay it gently in the ashes.
Make the skin of a comodo dragon into a ball with a hole in it and then pour the gooey mixture from the cauldron into it and cover up the hole. Throw the ball at what you want to destroy and that will
Dissolve.
The spell that makes you super fast!
Ingredients:
– half of a dragon’s tail
-5g of acid
-Cobweb
-Crocodile scales
Method:
Cut the half of the dragon’s tail into small pieces(as small as you can). Then put them in the bottle and fill the bottle with acid, after that slowly and carefully put the cobweb in the bottle. Finally, you spread the Crocodile scales then pour them in the bottle, mix the ingredients with a spoon and done!
Good ideas!
Can you add more to your first part explaining why you may need to use this spell?
Also, think about adding some exciting adjectives to your ingredients to make your spell sound exciting and intriguing to Prospero!
For example, ‘Fragile, yet elegant, cobweb.’
SWITCH-A-ROONEY SPELL:
Ingredients:
* 0.6kg of Goblin’s Toenail Clippings
* 10l of Burning Oil
* 10l of Unicorn Blood (do not kill, it needs to have died of natural causes, or the spell could go terribly wrong)
* 50g of Phoenix Ashes
* 2 sprigs of Herb (Rosemary)
* Goat’s Leg
* Eagle’s Wing
Steps to follow:
1. Split the ingredients in half.
2. Put the split ingredients into two separate pots.
3. Scoop up at as many times as it takes to empty the pot with a cup your switcher (the person who you are switching personalities with) once used.
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Hello ? Miss Lee.
This is all I could think of so far, although tomorrow I will come to you with a bit more to it. Hopefully I can come up with something as good as the other’s.
This is sounding great so far Lucy!
Try adding some exciting adjectives to your ingredients.
For example, ‘A golden, feathery eagle’s wing.’
I like the variety of imperative verbs in your method!
TIME EXCLUSURE
This potion allows you to go to the future and to the past.
You can also slow time and pose it, gaining super speed.
You can change events when you go back in time but only for a good reason.
It allows you sometimes and only for the best reason to read minds.
INGREDIENTS
*5 ml of tiger ? blood
*3 dragon ? scales
*10 drops ?of cold ? water
*100 gr of sea holly ?
METHOD
– warm the tiger blood with the dragon scales
– chop half of the sea holly in small bits and chop the other half into bigger ones
– add the drops of water to the blood mixture
– stir into the liquid the sea holly, the one chopped small
– add the rest of the sea holly on the top
IMPORTANT!
⭐⭐⭐
Hello everyone,
Your spells are sounding great so far!
Just remember your spell is for Prospero so think about what kind of spell he might need and why.
But it can also be a spell for anyone, for example an invisibility spell could be used for Prospero and others!
I hope you are having fun writing your spells!
Feather fume
A potion to make cars, trains, and even yourself to fly!
Ingredients:
. 3 wise owl feathers
.Amber
.melted copper
.honey from warrior bee’s
.bear poppy
.Phoenix tears
.chamelion berry’s (invisible)
.2 hairs of a unicorn
Great work Emilie! What creative ingredients!
Now try adding some exciting adjectives to your ingredients to make your spell sound intriguing to Prospero!
For example, ‘Luscious, sticky honey from warrior bees.’
This is a magic potion to become rich!
Ingredients:
Two over-ripe bananas
Salt and white pepper
Gold and silver food colouring
150g of drawing paper
1 black marker/sharpie
2 pieces of white tablecloth
Method:
1) Put a cauldron on a stove, heating for 15 minutes on a low heat.
2) Peel the bananas and crush them with a masher.
3) Add the gold food colouring to half of the bananas, then add the silver good colouring to the other half.
4) Add your banana mixture to the cauldron and heat to 80 degrees.
5) Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon while adding 1/5 of the drawing paper to it.
6) While it is cooking, draw the shape of your coins on the rest of the drawing paper with your marker.
7) After your mixture has been cooking for 20 minutes, add a pinch of salt and pepper.
8) Add all of your mixture to the shapes of your coins.
9) Put the 2 pieces of tablecloth on top.
10) Put them in the oven for an hour at 900 degrees.
11) After it has been cooked, you will have a lot of coins!
Hi miss Lee!
These are my five sentences:
It is a fiery coloured liquid.
This potion will make you able to repare a broken object or cure any harmed living creature.
Some of my ingredients are:
• pinch of fairy dust
• Unicorn’s horn
• Saber tiger’s tooth
It is sounding good so far Stella, well done!
I like the ‘pinch of fairy dust’ bit.
Can you add some adjectives to your ingredients to make them sound even more exciting?
Imagine your spell is in a book with hundreds of other spells. You want yours to stand our to Prospero and anyone else reading the book!
The impossible to possible potion!
This potion can make impossible into possible! How cool is that? Be careful though, and make your decision wise, because you can ONLY use it once… thats a warning! This potion can only work with good purpose. Not for unnecessary reasons.
Ingredients:
. Heart of the ocean
. Dragons breath
. Feather from a Phoenix
. Left overs from a fruit (any)
. Eye of an eagle
. Thunder in a jar
. A sprinkle of ash (from a tree)
. Scales from a loch ness monster
. Tongue of a snake
. Claws from a grizzly bear
. Fin of a piranha
. Part of a cloud
. Half of a meteorite
. Cold water
. Non- stick cauldron
. Stick/spoon
Method:
1. Pour out the cold water.
2. Add in a part of a cloud.
3. Next, blow in dragons breath.
4. After that, plot in the tongue of a snake.
5. Stir clockwise.
6. Keep stirring until its glowing blue.
7. Sprinkle in the ash from a tree.
8. Then, you add the eye of an eagle. Make sure you plot it in the centre of the pot.
9. Now, at the same time add the following items: scales from a loch ness monster, fin of a piranha, thunder in a jar, half a meteorite and feather of a Phoenix.
10. Add the heart of the ocean.
11. Mix well and there you have it!
Brilliant work Clare!
All of your ingredients sound very dangerous to get which makes your spell sound like a challenge!
See if you can add some adjectives to your ingredients.
For example ‘Part of a fluffy cloud.’
The time machine.
This potion is so Prospero and his daughter can fast forward in time so he does not need to be in this hard difficult time.
Ingredients:
* A broomstick ?
* A pot.
* Fire ? hot water
* A hand full of ash.
* Three spider legs.
* Two sea shells ?
* A cup full of sugar.
* A golden tear from a school girl.
Method:
* pour the fire hot water into the pot.
*Add the hand full of ash to the water.
* Put the three spider legs to the mixture.
* Add the two sea shells.
*Pour the cup of sugar into the witches pot.
* Add the golden tear from a school ? girl.
* Stir the nearly finished potion with the broomstick and say the magical words,”Thunder and lightening! Make a strong wind and blow Prospero and his daughter to a safe home!”
Great work Tijne!
Well done for explaining how Prospero could use your potion!
I like your ideas, they are very creative!
Can you add some adjectives to your ingredients?
For example, ‘Two delicate sea shells.’
Also, see if you can use even more of a variety of imperative verbs in your method such as ‘sprinkle’, ‘drizzle’ or ‘throw’.
The survival potion.
1. Grab the skull and place it on the table.
2. Carefully poor three drops of Juliet’s poison in the skull.
3. Galentely rip a page of prosperose’s magic book thow it in the skull and this should make a miny explosion.
4. Drop the baby deer blood in the potion.
5. Tear a little bit of bear skin.
6. Cunningly steal 100 golden duckets and pay the skull.
The rest of my potion I will send a photo.
Hi Martin!
Some brilliant ideas!
You have used a variety of imperative verbs, well done!
Just proof-read your work to check for any spelling mistakes.
Title: Water Walker
This poision makes you walk on water!!!
Ingredients:
-Heart of the ocean.
-Scale of a water spirit.
-A storm in a jar.
-Octupus tentacle.
-[Great white] Sharktooth.
-Golden raindrop.
-Dust from bottom of the sea[don’t just scrape it of a rock!!!
finally pour it on your feet and have fun [but be careful if you only poured it on your feet because any other body part that hasn’t been poured on will go in naturaly!!!]
Hello Rafael, some great idea! Walking on water would indeed be useful to Prospero!
I like your inventive ingredients!
Can you add some exciting adjectives to your ingredients?
For example, ‘A glistening golden raindrop.’
Also, see if you can use bullet points for your method to make your spell clear.
Good morning Miss _
How about swollen spider’s eye and magical bat’s wing?
Hello Miss Lee.
I have made a different spell for prospero to follow.
THE WATER SPIRIT.
If you are in rouble on an island and you need an emergency spell, you need to summon the water spirit…
WHAT YOU NEED.
#sand
#a clear bottle
#water from the deep sea
#salt
#a fishes bone
#a golden trouts fillet
MAKING.
#First, gather up your ingredients, and blend them up.
# then, put them all in the clear bottle.
# Shake and drink
WARNING: make sure you have a boat around you so the water spirit can whisk you away to your real home.
How to make exploding stone:
ingredients:
– gunpowder 5 grams
– 1 piece of metal 3cm
– stone
– soil
– water
you need:
– a cauldron
– a wooden spoon
Method:
First pour boiling water with the gunpowder,
then add the metal. Stir firmly until the piece of metal is almost liquid. Then quickly add the stone and sprinkle some soil.
Wait 1 hour ’till it all is absorbed. If stone trembles then you have succeeded. Now light and it will exploded after 5 minutes.
How to make exploding stone:
ingredients:
– gunpowder 5 grams
– 1 piece of metal 3cm
– stone
– soil
– water
you need:
– a cauldron
– a wooden spoon
Method:
-First pour boiling water with the gunpowder,
-then add the metal.
-Stir firmly until the piece of metal is almost liquid.
-Then quickly add the stone and sprinkle some soil.
-Wait 1 hour ’till it all is absorbed.
-If stone trembles then you have succeeded.
-Now light it and it will exploded after 5 minutes.