The Pirate Cruncher

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Enquiry: We are comparing the experience of passengers on the Great Western Railway. Look at the pictures of the different carriages in the gallery below and infer which was first class and which was third class. Then can you sort the descriptions into the correct class on the table? Shiver me timbers!” laughed Captain Purplebeard, “You should know by now that never ever can a pirate have enough treasure. If there’s a beast it better beware, I can smell the gold we’re nearly there.” In this video, the author / illustrator shows you how to draw a pirate. Can you use some of his techniques to create your own illustrations? I would love to see your completed work. You can send me pictures of your work or anything else you would like to show me. Congratulations to Zahra, Inaaya, Samiya, Zayn, Raihan Luwisa and Mahrosh for excellent home learning this week.

English: Here are some words linked to the our story The Pirate Cruncher: booty, bellowed, trudged, sneered, shanty, loot, fiddler, unfurled. Draw a picture of each to show what they mean. Challenge: Can you write synonyms for each word? You could draw a picture for each pirate in your jotter and write their character profiles alongside them. Enquiry: Use this video in the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zovFQQ2SwBc and pictures in the gallery below to infer how people felt about the Great Western Railway being built. Write a sentence explaining how you think they felt and why. You scruvy sea dog!” bellowed the Captain “Be it made up or monstrous, it’s no match for me. I’m Captain Purplebeard, scourge of the sea.”

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I t is really important that your child continues to read when they are at home. We have created an account with "Oxford Owl". Here you can find lots of freee-books and comprehension activities for your child to read and do. Year 6 :- Missing from the group photograph are Tia and Jenson. Lucas / Most books. Freya/ Best effort and Sam / Top points 👏👏👏 Go home!!” roared Captain Purplebeard, “I’ll keelhaul you all, you cowardly landlubbers! The only thing you need to be frightened of is me!” Maths: Answer these addition and subtraction questions. Remember to look closely at the symbols + or - By thunder! That sounds just like our sort of plunder or my name ain’t Purplebeard of Penzance. Finish your grog lads – we set sail at once!”

The fiddler unfurled his map and sang “I’ll show ye me map if you’ll take me there, there’ll be treasure enough for us all to share!” Use the first line of this book as the starting point for your own story (‘It was unusually quiet in…’). As they clamboured ashore no one saw a thing wrong, too busy to heed the fiddler’s last song. “Off you go boys but I think I’ll stay here, I doubt what you’ll find will bring you much cheer. For a pile of old metal, you don’t really need has brought on a dangerous case of greed! And being greedy you know is wrong which bring me at last to the end of my song!” When you have written yourpredictionyou can watch the rest of the story. Which ending did you prefer, yours or JonnyDuddle’s?

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His shanty caught the ear of dastardly Captain Purplebeard. Putting down his ale and wiping his lips, Purplebeard bellowed out the window “Treasure you say? Can you show us the way?” In your jotter, draw 3 and label three containers that hold more tha n 100ml and three containers that hold less th a n 100 ml. With an adult, can you look around your home and find containers that have liquid in them . Can you find out the capacity of the containers (look carefully on the bottle for ml or l). For example, y ou might find milk, shampoo, juice or sauce.