The Pirate Cruncher

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You could draw a picture for each pirate in your jotter and write their character profiles alongside them. Look at the map on the inside front cover. Could you write a story based in one of the locations (e.g. Monster Hole or Groggy Head)? Make a list of similar place names that you could use as story settings in the future. Can you write a reply to Tom as you instead of Sophie ? Think about the information he gave you and reply with the same information about yourself , for example:

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!” Congratulations to Zahra, Inaaya, Samiya, Zayn, Raihan Luwisa and Mahrosh for excellent home learning this week. 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. Use the first line of this book as the starting point for your own story (‘It was unusually quiet in…’). 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.This video shows the author telling the story to a group of children. Could you retell the story to an audience? Can you think of some questions that you would like to ask the author? 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? 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. I can imagine a ship-load of treasure” roared Captain Purplebeard, “Diamonds and rubies and gold beyond measure.”

Look at the treasure map on the inside front cover. Could you create a map of your local area in a similar style?

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My dear fellow pirate, do ye want to be rich? To get treasure beyond yer wildest dreams, to find nuggets of gold as big as ships’ beams? And diamonds and rubies the size of yer eyes! Just follow this map to claim yer prize. From a friend, kiss, kiss, kiss.

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? 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!”The Pirate-Cruncher' is a superb tale of skulduggery on the high seas in which Captain Purplebeard, of Penzance, and his motley crew set out to find treasure hidden on an island in the middle of the ocean. Twinkl are offering a collection of free interactive resources and worksheets for parents throughout the school closure. These can be accessed on any device, with no apps to install. All you need to do is to sign up for a free membership. Can you write a prediction about what you think might happen next? Try not to peep at the rest of the video – we really want you to use your imagination to make upa pirate adventure that could happen at this point in the story. Maths: Can you use your dienes to subtract? Remember to draw how many tens and ones you start with and then cross them out to takeaway.

Year 6 :- Missing from the group photograph are Tia and Jenson. Lucas / Most books. Freya/ Best effort and Sam / Top points 👏👏👏

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. At one point in the story, one of the members of the crew disappears. Write about what happened to him. 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?”