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Vocabulary focus: What does the prefix omni- mean? Can you find any other words beginning with omni-? What do they have in common? What is an omnidrone? Where is this? Describe the setting using your senses. What is the omnidrone doing to Bob? Is someone controlling it? How is...

What is the woman doing? Where is she? Why is she lying on the floor? How is she feeling? Why? What happened to her clothes? What happened to the building? Why is the TV off air? Are the leaves and acorns important? Is the house in the distance important? What does...

First share the title - 'Another Rainy Day' - without showing the image. Ask children to draw what they imagine this picture to look like. Tell them there is one person and one animal in the picture. After drawing, ask them to compare the two...

What can you see? What do you think is happening here? Why are the warriors walking through the water? Why do their bodies look like skeletons? Are they Viking warriors? What happened to them? What happened to the longship? What/where is Valhalla? Do you think it...

What happened to the moon, clouds and stars? How did it happen? How are the animals involved? What time of year is it? How do you know? How might the moon be returned to the sky? Design a machine to get the moon, stars and clouds back in the sky. What...

What is the bird on the left doing? How do you know? Do you think that the bird's song is good or bad? Why? Does that bird often sing? What is the bird on the right thinking? What might it say when the other bird has finished singing? Which...

What's happening here? Why is the woman in red holding two suitcases? Why is the woman in black making a bubble over her? What will happen when the bubble is completely formed? Is there someone inside the smaller bubble? If you could travel in a bubble, where would you like...

Show the image without the title first. Who do you think this is? Why is he carrying all of those jars? What's inside them? Why are they attached to his clothing? Couldn't he just carry them in a bag? Why is he wearing this clothing? Is he going to...

Banned words! Describe this building without using the words 'metal' or 'castle'. List nouns/adjectives/verbs for this picture. Use these to compose sentences describing the setting. Can you describe the castle using a simile? Why might you do this in your writing? What is the effect of it? Where...

Why is the mechanical octopus holding these objects? What does the scroll say? What is in the bag? What is the key for? (A door? A chest?) Who created this octopus? Is someone inside it? Who is controlling it? Create your own mechanical octopus and choose 8 items for it...