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Instructional Writing in Hub 14/16

Lisa Lowden —

During the second half of this term the children have been learning how to write instructions in a range of settings. They have learnt that instructions need to be very specific, that each instruction begins with a verb and that they are sequenced in order of what needs to happen. Room 14 writers have been writing instructions for 'How to make fairy bread' and 'How to make a witches potion'. Room 16 writers have written instructions for 'How to blow a bubble'

Laura’s delicious cat stew of doom!

Goal: How to make cat stew

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup of orange cat fur

  • One thousand cups of beautiful cat tails

  • One giant cat eye

  • A chopping board, knife, cauldron, whisk

  • Ten mice

  • Twenty-five cat tongues

  • A fishes skeleton

  • 2 miniature bells

  • One sunflower

  • 2 cups of milk

  • Black dye


Instructions:

  1. Get your ingredients

  2. Get your cat tongues then put them in the freezer

  3. Boil your fishes skeleton and drop it into the cauldron

  4. Add your 2 miniature bells into the mix, it should be blue now!

  5. Whisk your milk for ten minutes then pour it into your cauldron

  6. Chop up the sunflower and sprinkle the petals into your cauldron

  7. Crack your cat eye open, mush it up then taste it, then pour the cat eye’s pieces into the cauldron

  8. Grab your cat tongues out of the freezer and chop them up, add them into the cauldron

  9. Boil the mice alive, throw them in the cauldron

  10. Dump all your delicious cat fur into the cauldron

  11. Tip your black ink into the cauldron

  12. Chop the cat’s tail up and tip it into the cauldron

  13. Drink the whole lot up. within 24 hours you will permanently be a black cat! ENJOY!


How to Blow a Bubble

1) Unwrap the gum.

2) Put the gum into your mouth.

3) Chew the gum until it is nice and soft.

4) Flatten the gum on the roof of your mouth.

5) Poke your tongue in the gum.

6) Blow!