Tuesday review

Now we have finished reading David Weisner's Tuesday, write a review of the book for the rest of the children at school. 

What is the book about? 

What did you like or dislike about the book? 

Would you recommend the book to children in other Year groups?

Next Tuesday ...

NEXT TUESDAY, 7:58 P.M.

1. What do you think is happening in this picture?

2. How is this image similar to the rest of the story?

Challenge question
3. Can you predict what will happen next?

The crime scene - Part 2

Write in character what the detective might be thinking in this scene.

The crime scene - Part 1

Write in character what the reporter and eyewitness might be saying in this scene.

Hot off the press - Slimegate!

Ransacked rooms leave students hopping mad ...

The incident in class yesterday was reported in local and national newspapers this morning. 

Here is the special online edition from the Brixton Blog. 

The story has begun to go viral across the internet and is now being referred to as slimegate.

Write a short paragraph about what happened yesterday morning. 

Remember to include:

1. What happened when you arrived at school in the morning.

2. What you saw in the classroom and how you felt.

3. What you did in the classroom.

Challenge question

Who do you think the culprit was based on the evidence?

Terrible Tuesday

The evidence so far ...

Nocturnal activity

What do you think is happening in the picture?

Where are the frogs going?

The witching hour ...

What do you think is about to happen in this sleepy suburban town, high up in the night sky above the clock tower, when all are safely tucked up in bed? 

The dream ...

1. What does it feel like being trapped in a cage, with hundreds of animals staring at you and taking pictures?

2. How do you feel about the animals who trapped you in a cage at the zoo?

3. When you woke up from your dream, did your feelings about the animals and zoos change?

Challenge

What other questions would you ask the character to find out about how he felt trapped in the cage?

Roles reversed!

 We have been thinking about how animals feel while they are trapped in cages in the zoo. What would happen if the roles were reversed and it was humans in the cage?!

How do the animals feel in this image?

How might the people feel?

Trapped in the zoo!

It was the end of a fantastic day visiting London Zoo. On my way to the exit, I saw a brightly coloured bird swoop past me. So I went to investigate. I followed him, running as fast as my feet would carry me, over a wobbly bridge. By now it had grown dark, very dark and there were no people left in the zoo. I was completely on my own! Then, I began to hear some strange noises ...

Continue the story below.

What should happen to the orangutan?

Do you agree with the businessman who wants to spend money improving the life of the orangutan in the zoo? He will paint the walls, make sure the cage is cleaned regularly and buy another orangutan as a friend.

or 

Do you agree with the bearded man who wants to take the orangutan out of the zoo and set him free in the rainforest of Borneo?

Trouble at the Zoo

We acted out a scene from Zoo by Anthony Browne.

The people around the family are trying to look at the orangutan.

What are each of the characters thinking? 
How do you think they feel?

Set me free!

Which of the animals do you feel most sympathy for and why?

What's up mum?

Write in role what the mum was thinking in the car on the way to the zoo?

Overtaken by a snail!

Zoo - investigate the characters

Next term we will be reading Zoo by Anthony Browne.

What can you tell about the personalities of the four main characters from looking at their pictures above?

An epic battle

Terribly black, terribly scaly, terribly knobbly, terribly horned, terribly hairy, terribly clawed, terribly fanged, with vast indescribably terrible eyes, each one as big as Switzerland.

The world is under threat from the huge and terrifying space-bat-angel-dragon, which wants to eat all living things (people, animals, forests). It doesn't care what it eats, so long as the food is alive!

Write a short story showing how Hogarth and the Iron Man could have defeated the horrifying space-bat-angel-dragon.
 

You need nerves of steel to eat here!

Write what you think the family might have been saying when they were having their picnic on top of the hill.

What changed and how did the family react?

Whose side will you take?

For or against

Think about whether you are for or against trapping the Iron Man.
Write about who you agree with and why.
These might be the farmer, Hoggarth, Hoggarth's dad, a member of the public, the town councellor,  the NOPDWT (National Organisation for the Prevention of the Destruction of Wild Things) or the Police.