Friday 8th May
LC: to use our knowledge of planning to create an effective plan for the independent narrative write

Let's consider verse 6 of the poem where the parent welcomes home the hero!
Think of celebratory portmanteau words that your parent could use when they see the hero return.
'Callooh! Callay!'

Fantastic and Hurray = Fanurray!
Brilliant and whoohoo = Brillooh!
Can you think of some more?
Here are some words for you to join together to make a portmanteau!
fantastic amazing hurray wonderful celebration
joyous brilliant congratulations
Speak as the parent. Begin:
Now complete the rest of the planning table.
Remember to include the final column with the
language features
you will use.
LC: To be able to read the temperature on a thermometer.



Complete the RIC.

R What caused Joe's life to change?
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I How do you think that the other readers of Billionaire's Weekly will feel when they read Joe's letter?
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C Find and copy two words which mean the same as 'extremely' and 'insanely'.
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LC: to summarise main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and identify key details which support this
Do you remember what summarising is?
Let's look at how we outlined the main points of Chapter 1.
Chapter 1

What strategies did we use to condense the information into as few sentences as possible?
Tell your talk partner.
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Re read Chapter 2 of the story then, with your talk partner, discuss and note on your whiteboards
the main points of the chapter.






Now we will compile a shared summary of this chapter using the ABC prompts to respond to each others' ideas.






LC: to use our research and learning to compare and contrast the civilisations and achievements of the Ancient Greeks and the Mayans
We are going to finish our study of History this year by remembering our learning about
two great ancient civilisations.
Look back in your History books to remind yourself of the achievements of
- the ancient Greeks
- the Mayans
Complete the table with NOTES (use short bullet points like the model below).
Complete your table on Seesaw.










