Monday 15th September

Grammar Warm Up

LC: to create effective noun phrases using adjectives and prepositional phrases 

 

 

 

LC: to orally retell a story 

 

It's your turn to create an oral story map for a section of

The Legend of Gelert. 

In your groups, come up with actions to match the paragraph your teacher gives you. 

You will then teach your paragraph to the rest of the class! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 15/09/2025

LC: to round numbers to the nearest 10 000

 

 

RIC

Thousands of years ago, there lived a half man, half god named Hercules. When he was younger, a curse was put on Hercules that forced him to do terrible things. When the curse was finally broken, he wanted to be forgiven for the things that he had done. He was told to visit King Eurystheus who would give him 12 difficult tasks to complete to earn forgiveness.

For the first two tasks, Hercules was asked to defeat the Nemean lion and the Lernaean hydra. These were two powerful beasts that had been terrifying the local people. Next, King Eurystheus challenged him to catch an incredibly fast deer. It took Hercules a whole year to catch the animal but he was eventually successful and asked for the next task.

R - What was Hercules asked to do for the first two weeks?

I - How do you think Hercules felt when he was under the curse? Use evidence from the text.

C - Can you identify effective adjectives in the text?

 

Main

Monday 15th September 2025

LC: To identify key words and phrases in a text.

Good readers identify what is really important ...key words… phrases… sentences… ideas

• If you Google the word sport, you will get 3 million sites! So as we read, trying to sort out what is important and what is not is really important.
• As we read we come across... key words… phrases… sentences… or ideas. Not everything in a book has equal value. We have to puzzle out what are the key words and pay special attention to them.

 

Think aloud. What’s important?  
There may not be right and wrong answers! 

 

Whole Class

A Yorkshire man, aged 24, finds buried treasure during walk with labrador.

A London teenager has sold a mobile app he first invented in his bedroom for between £20 and £40 million. Nick D’Aloisio, 17 said he would probably buy a new computer and trainers after Yahoo bought his new software yesterday.

Activity

Read the text on Seesaw and highlight the important information.

 15/9/2015

LC: To test the effects of gravity

 

To test how gravity works, we will drop four balls of different sizes and weights from the same height. Each ball will be dropped three times to make our test fair. We will use a stopwatch to measure how long it takes each ball to hit the ground. Afterwards, we will compare the times to see what we notice about gravity.

Our findings: