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Hughie and his mum dig a hole, gather frog spawn, and anticipate frogs, but the real change comes through Ms OK’s “getting under someone’s skin” writing exercise. 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 \n● How did Hughie feel when Ms OKread his writing to thecass?  \neHow would you describe the experience of getting  \nunder the skin?  \no Read pages32-33.How did the experience make Hughiefeel?Why do you think this?How does it make you feel  \n● Descnibe how you think Hughie felt after Flomie wasrescued.Why?WRITE ON  \noImagine you are 'under the skin²ofa creature.Write whatyou feel  \nThere are more Pocket Tales to read at this levell Don'tforget to check out Pocket Facts and Pocket Sci-Fi ot thislevel too.Tum to the inside back cover to find out more!Genre:Fantasy story              Skil:To anticulate personal responses to fiterature,identihyingwty and how the tert affects the readerY6TiT3)  \n000 SHEPHERD PR  \nFRANZESKA G.EWART  \nIllustrated by Steve May  \nExtraordinary-that's what it was.Which Ialways think is a funny word,because itsounds as though it should mean 'even-  \nmore-ordinary-than-ordinary'.'Extraordinary'because it happened at all,and extra-  \nspecially-extraordinary because it happened tome -plain old Hughie McVey.  \nIt wouldn't have happened if it hadn'tbeen for a very special teacher,but it allstarted with my mum,like so many things(including me,come to think of it).  \n\"What this garden needs,\"Mum  \nannounced,marching through the rhubarbpatch one afternoon,\"is a pond!\"And beforeyou could say 'slave labour',she'd handed mea spade,pointed to the spot,and told me toget digging.Not a 'spot',actually.Spot soundslike something small (though personally I'vegrown some whoppers).It was a great bigoval shape she'd marked on the grass with2  \nwhite paint,and that shape was to become ahole,dug by me and Mum.  \n\"We'll gather frog spawn,\"explained Mum,\"and by summer the garden will be a-hopwith frogs!And what do frogs mean?\"  \nI shrugged and wiped the  \nsweat from my forehead with mysleeve.Frogs mean frogs,is all.I've nothing against them,but lcan't get worked up about them.\"Frogs mean -no more slugs!\"Mum explained triumphantly.\"They're cute too,\"she added.Cuter than slugs,I thought.Notwo ways about that.  \nSo,after I'd dug till dropped,we covered the bottom of thehole with sand,laid the plasticsheet inside,and then secured it  \nall round with big stones.Once we'd pouredgallons of water in,and gathered a lump offreshly-laid frogspawn from the local pond,Ihad to admit it looked pretty good.  \n\"Just think,Hughie,\"said Mum dreamily,\"each one of those tiny black spots is destinedto become a mean,green,slug-eatingmachine!\"  \nI stared down at the frogspawn,trying tofeel a bit of Mum's enthusiasm,but failing.As far as I was concerned,it was a job weldone,and that was that.  \nHow wrong I was.  \nThat lump of jelly was the beginning of theextraordinary time.The jelly,and Ms Kahlo.  \nOur teacher was off sick with a bad back,and Ms Kahlo was her replacement.  \nShe was brilliant.  \nSmall and slim,with poker-straight darkhair she could have sat on,if she ever did sit.She didn't though.She danced around theclassroom,waving her arms about,whirlingand birling as she gave us Mental Maths orSpelling or read us poetry.She was sparkly,likesunlight.Or moonlight.Yeah ...moonlight.  \nMs Kahlo wore the longest earrings I'veever seen!They hadall sorts of strange thingshanging from them,which whirled and birledon their palms,frogs with stonesset into their backs.Shesaid they came fromNew Mexico,like she did.  \n7  \nWe christened her'Ms OK',andwhen she heard us say it one day shesmiled and said she thought it was'priceless'.  \nAs I said at the start,Ms OK wasresponsible for the whole extra-specially-extraordinary business,so Ihave her to thank.(Or to blame.)I'dnever in a month of Sundays havecome up with the idea on my own.  \n'Getting under skins'she called it.  \nI ask you!Me,get under someoneelse's skin?  \n\"This is an exercise lots of writersuse,\"she told us.(Did I say that MsOK's eyes were deep brown,with palerbrown middles,and they reminded meof cappucino coffee?)\"They  \nconcentrate really hard on someone,","cbCairHLpEy9HsIe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairHLpEy9HsIe","pdf",2007544,76,"English","# Skin\n## The pond project and frog spawn\n## Ms OK’s “under the skin” exercise\n## Mental Maths, poetry, and imagining feelings\n## Writing prompt: under the skin of a creature","[{\"question\":\"Why did Hughie begin working on the garden pond?\",\"answer\":\"Hughie’s mum announced the garden needed a pond and handed him a spade to dig a marked hole so they could gather frog spawn.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is Ms OK and what makes her special in the story?\",\"answer\":\"Ms OK is a teacher replacement for the sick teacher. 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