The Farmer and his Sons, Connectors in Stories

Week 12^th – 14^th May

Hi!

Last week you worked harder than usual because of the test, didn’t you?

It was worth because they were very good.

We started the week telling stories.

‘The farmer and his sons’

We read about the farmer who was dying.  Before he died, he told his sons about a treasure that was buried in the vineyard. When he died, his sons dug every inch of the vineyard looking for the treasure but they couldn’t find any. But soon the grapes began to grow. They were the best grapes in the area. Now, they understood what their father meant by “treasure”.

The moral of this story is that: hard work brings its own reward. If you work hard, you’ll get a prize,(a reward).

And we also read ‘The Emperor and his daughters’.

The emperor wanted his daughters to marry as soon as they were sixteen. The emperor’s daughters didn’t like the princes their father had chosen for them and ran away. They came to a farm and fell in love with the farmer’s sons and they married them.

Then, Gema told us the story of ‘Peter and the wolf’. The moral of this story is: you mustn’t lie.

These stories helped us to understand the use of connectors.

TIME: before, as soon as, while, during, when.

CONTRAST: but, however.

RELATIVE PRONOUN: who.

CONSEQUENCE: so.

·           He had daughters but he didn’t have sons.

·           They didn’t want to marry the princes so, they ran away.

·           They dug up the grapevine. However, they couldn’t find the treasure.

We learnt to identify and pronounce vowel sounds in English.

You can practise on this link

 Vowel Sounds

Bye, see you tomorrow!