The Pirate Cruncher

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Please choose theage 6-7 booksfor Year 2. The books are best looked at on tablets or computers/laptops. You could draw a picture for each pirate in your jotter and write their character profiles alongside them. 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.” 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!” Congratulations to Zahra, Inaaya, Samiya, Zayn, Raihan Luwisa and Mahrosh for excellent home learning this week.

At one point in the story, one of the members of the crew disappears. Write about what happened to him. When you have written yourpredictionyou can watch the rest of the story. Which ending did you prefer, yours or JonnyDuddle’s?

Purplebeard hears of the treasure through a fiddler who roams through the dark and nasty streets of Port Royal singing a ditty that mentions the treasure. Once he hears the ditty and the fiddler unfurls a map of the location, Purplebeard sets his heart on owning 'a SHIPLOAD of treasure' and gathers together his men who are also hungry to get at the hidden wealth. Go home!!” roared Captain Purplebeard, “I’ll keelhaul you all, you cowardly landlubbers! The only thing you need to be frightened of is me!” 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. Look at the treasure map on the inside front cover. Could you create a map of your local area in a similar style? Flamingo – if you are confident at Level One you could ask an adult to work through Level Two with you.

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? 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?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: 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!”

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?” 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. 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. 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. Year 6 :- Missing from the group photograph are Tia and Jenson. Lucas / Most books. Freya/ Best effort and Sam / Top points 👏👏👏English: Can you make a prediction? We are going to use the story of the Pirate Cruncher to help us predict what will happen in other stories. Watch this story by the same author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E4qmlFAQTw and pause it at 3 minutes 55 seconds. What do you think will happen next and why? Draw a picture to show your thinking and write a sentence for your prediction. Remember to think about how the story is similar to books we already know! 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. English:Write a character description of Captain Purplebeard from the Pirate Cruncher. Can you describe what he looks like (beard, hair, face, clothes) and his personality?

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. 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 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.” All was unusually quiet in Port Royal, but if you listen carefully on the quay side, down the alleyways and in the candle-lit taverns, you could hear the faint sound of a fiddle floating on the wind. >Outside the Thirsty Parrot Inn an old fiddler appeared, and as he fiddled he sang a song. “I was sailing one day and what did I see? An island of gold in the scurvy sea! With a fiddle-dee-dee there’ll be treasure for me. Fiddle-dee-dee, across the sea.” Use the first line of this book as the starting point for your own story (‘It was unusually quiet in…’).Maths: Answer these subtraction questions. Think about which strategies are best to use for each (fingers or dienes) 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. 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. 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? In maths, the term capacity is used when measuring how much liquid fits inside a container. It is measured in millilitres (ml) and litres (l) .