Teaching activities for the book Peas and Quiet.

1. Activities
Peas and Quiet

2. Key
Performance
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🖨 Printable 🙂 Group work
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Brainstorm
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Question
✚ Extension

3. Book Ingredients
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4. Busy Verb Dance
squirm hop giggle bounce skip
wriggle grumble groan sing squawk
snore snuffle howl slink smile
1. As a class point to the words listed to create a verb dance.
2. In groups create a dance and get your classmates to follow it. Use a Clapometre to judge the best dance. !

5. "Two Peas in a Pod." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 5 June 2017.
What is a ‘pea in a pod’?
An idiom is an expression
peculiar to a language, that
cannot be taken literally, for
example 'I've got a frog in my
throat'. NSW English Syllabus
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6. Mad sentences
get on your nervesdrive mad wind up put out drive round the bend
Create a sentence using one of the mad idioms listed below. E.g.
When my mum doesn’t listen to me it drives me mad.
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Phrases like ‘peas in a pod’ or ’drive round the bend’ are
an interesting way to make an idea easier for the reader to
understand.

7. POD Buddies V1
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8. Pod Buddies V2
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9. Do the faces help us understand what the character
is trying to express?
How is pop feeling in the picture to the right?
What are the clues in the words?
What are the clues in the picture?
See the emotion

10. ’Leave then!’ Pip shouts.
‘I’m fine without you.
You snore, you’re a bore,
You belong in a zoo!’
’I know I’ve been grumpy,
sleepy, a bore! I’m here to
surprise you – I was mailed to
our door.’
’Pip did you see me?
I just got thrown!’
🖨Face match

11. Do Pip and Pop have to work together to solve their problem?
How do they work it out?
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5
Enough is enough

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Happiness is a piece of cake… or