Monday
Monday 14th July 2025
Use active reading strategies to retrieve information and make inferences.
Modelled/shared:
What animals avoid Max at the Park?
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Why do you think that Max decides to go home?
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p.25 Why does Max roll up and lie in the gutter?
p.25 What dilemma does Max face now?
p. 28 Why do you think that Max caught nothing in the park?
p.29 Why is Max disappointed when he meets the hedgehog stranger?
p.30 Why does the author describe the telephone box in the way that he does?
p.30 What do you think a second bump on the head will do to Max?
Monday 14th July
LC: Create an effective character description
Read this Wanted Poster for Mr Wolf in the Goldilocks story.
What features can you spot?
Reread the poem, then create a Wanted Poster for Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer, using information from the text to help you.
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats
As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians,
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
They had an extensive reputation
They made their home in Victoria Grove -
That was merely their centre of operation,
For they were incurably given to rove.
They were very well known
in Cornwall Gardens, in Launceston Place
and in Kensongton Square -
They had really a little more reputaiton
Than a couple of cats can very well bear.
If the area window was found ajar
And the basement looked like a field of war,
If a tile or two came loose on the roof,
Which presently fails to be waterproof,
If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chests,
And you couldn't find one of your winter vests,
Or after supper one of the girls
Suddenly missed her Woolworth pearls:
Then the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"
And most of the time they left it at that.
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a very unusual gift of the gab.
They were highly efficient cat-burglars as well,
And remarkably smart at a smash-and-grab.
They made their home in Victoria Grove.
They had no regular occupation.
They were plausible fellows, and liked to engage
A friendly policeman in conversation.
When the family assembled for Sunday dinner,
With their minds made up that they wouldn't get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens,
And the cook would appear from behind the scenes
And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow:
"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow!
For the joint has gone from the oven - like that!"
Then the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"
And most of the time they left it at that.
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a wonderful way of working together.
And some of the time you would say it was luck,
And some of the time you would say it was weather.
They would go through the house like a hurricane,
And no sober person could take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie - or Rumpelteazer?
Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?
And when you heard a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash
Or down from the library there comes a loud ping
From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming-
Then family would say: "Now which was which cat?
It was Mungojerrie! AND Rumpelteazer!"-
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!
14.07.25
LC: Maths Adventure
Monday 14th July 2025
Assessment: Sound
