The Pirate Cruncher

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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!” 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 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.

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: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?I can imagine a ship-load of treasure” roared Captain Purplebeard, “Diamonds and rubies and gold beyond measure.” 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. 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.

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.” 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.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. Use the first line of this book as the starting point for your own story (‘It was unusually quiet in…’). Maths: Answer these addition and subtraction questions. Remember to look closely at the symbols + or - Congratulations to Zahra, Inaaya, Samiya, Zayn, Raihan Luwisa and Mahrosh for excellent home learning this week. 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.

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