What have you learned about penguins? - The Mayflower ...

Tuesday 1st December 2020

WALT: plan a non- chronological report of a penguin lifecycle.

What have you learned about penguins?

- Emperor penguins grow to 1.15m tall

- Daddy emperor penguins look after the egg on their feet under their tummies

- Emperor penguins are the largest penguins in the world

- Emperor Penguins slide over the ice on their tummies

- They can dive down to 565m deep under water

- Emperor penguins eat fish, krill and squid

- They keep food inside their tummies to feed to their chicks

- The mummy penguin goes in the water for the winter

- They are very quick swimmers because they have strong flippers

- They live in Antarctica



Yesterday you learnt about the features of a report. What can you remember about the features?

Features of a non-chronological

report



Lets discover the different stages of a penguin life-cycle.

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What is a verb and adjective?

a verb tells you what action something is doing.

e.g. the penguin waddled over the slipper ice.

an adjective describe a place, person or thing.

e.g. the black, and white penguin.



What verbs and adjectives can we

use to describe what is happening

during this stage of a penguin

lifecycle?

The white and black daddy penguin is incubating the egg and keeping it warm.

The father penguin is looking at the white, shiny egg.

The feathery father penguins are huddling to keep warm.






lifecycle?

The white egg is hatching.

The cute, small chick is hatching out of the round, white egg.






lifecycle?

The penguin family is trumpeting and huddling together.



What fronted adverbials could we include?

Lets write a plan of a non-chronological together

_______ the mother penguin lays

an egg and carefully passes the

____, ____ egg to the father to

look after whilst she looks for food.

__________ the cute, small chick hatches out of the round, white egg.

____________ the fluffy, grey penguin chick grows up for four years until it is an adult.



Activity

You are going to plan your own non-chronological report about the penguin life cycle.

Remember to include verbs, adjectives and fronted adverbials in your plan!

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