I’ve adapted the mystery I did based on Michael Morpurgo’s “Homecoming” so that the first clue spells out: “The wizard Dumbledore” (instead of Bennie the Thug), the second spells out: lemon sherbets and the third: desk drawer.
Before class make sure to hide some lemon sherbets in your desk drawer.
Leave a Harry Potter book open on a desk and footprints or something along those lines trailing from it or around the room. You could have more than one book open.
Tell the children that you’ve received a mysterious package of “top secret” folders and a note that says someone has left a treat in the room for the class if they can solve who left it, what it is and where it is hidden. Hand out envelopes with “top secret” on the cover and the clues inside.
This lesson would pair fantastically with my Harry Potter themed potions-mixing maths lesson, either as a “test” before Dumbledore asks them to measure out potions or as a reward for making the potions for him.
There are 4 differentiated clue sets including one with pictures for SEN (which took aaaages!). Would make a good interview lesson.
For a lesson plan based on the original lesson and any extra resources (Other Adult Planner, definitions to hand-out to students who need it, ect,.) check out the original grammar mystery here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks2-differentiated-grammar-mystery-nouns-verbs-adjectives-homecoming-michael-morpurgo-11668989
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Excellent idea! Thanks a lot!
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