Spring
This half term we have been looking at the book…
We have been thinking like Howard Carter to create journal entries of when we discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb.
This week we interviewed Howard Carter and recorded his response using role play.
We also looked at how we could uplevel vocabulary to get into the role of Howard Carter and how he would speak back in the 1920s.
Autumn
As our topic in Autumn is Amazon Adventure, we are going to be reading The Great Kapok Tree.
After researching deforestation and different rainforest animals, we are going to be writing our own sequels. In these we will included lots of amazing adjectives, fronted adverbials and speech.
For our display, we will publish our writing onto a banana leaf which we then combined together to create a beautiful banana tree.
Spring
As our topic through Spring is Ancient Egyptians, we are going to be reading the Egyptian Cinderella.
For our display, we are going to publish our own newspaper reports where we will be reporting on the royal wedding of the Pharaoh
and Rhodopis!
Summer
Our topic this term is all based around the Anglo-Saxons therefore we have chosen to read a book based
in fifth-century Denmark called ‘Beowulf’.
This half term we are going to produce two independent pieces of writing:
1. A comparison of two scenes
2. An alternative ending
Below, we have also attached YouTube videos for part 1 and 2 which you can watch at home and are a great visual representation of the story!