The Night Pirates!

This morning we read a story called The Night Pirates. It's about a boy called Tom who goes on an adventure with some girl pirates to steal some pirate treasure! We talked about the way the story was written, including similes "quiet as mice" and "stealthy as shadows" and questions, such as "But where were they going?"

One group worked with Mrs Batson and came up with the next part of Tom's adventure, which they acted out. It was an exciting story about travelling to Dinosaur Land and tiptoeing past some sleeping dinosaurs to steal the treasure!

One group worked with Miss Ayres and wrote the first part of a story as a group about Tom's adventures. Our target was to use a simile in our story and some questions, just like in the story The Night Pirates! This is what we wrote:

One sunny day the day pirates went to Tom's house. Fast as cheetahs they climbed up the wall to Tom's bedroom. They crawled under the bed and hid something. What do you think it was?
When Tom was looking for his toys under his bed he found a piece of paper. It was a treasure map! What do you think Tom did with the treasure map?

Then we continued the story ourselves. Here are the next part of our stories!

He went to pirate island. He found treasure. He stayed on the island. (Harry)

He found footprints from the pirates but Tom also found coins. Also there could be bandits. But what is that? It might be a parrot. But Tom was the sleepiest boy in the world. (Grace)

Tom found a parrot in his room. The girl pirates hid the treasure in his cupboard! But one of the coins was wooden. Tom threw the wooden coin in the bin! (Maddie)

Tom went on a boat to pirate island. He stole treasure from the pirates. He found a bracelet. The next day he stole more treasure. He took it home. (Lucy)

Tom was looking for treasure and he found treasure. It was lots of gold coins. (Matthew)

He tried to find pirates. One grown up pirate guarded the treasure. He sneaked under. The rest is a mystery! (Aaron)

Super writing from everybody, well done!