This afternoon we are going to write our letters to the pirates - will they let Funky Monkey go?!
Monday, 9 June 2014
Funky Monkey in kidnap drama!
This morning we found a message in a bottle in the water tray - it was from Funky Monkey! He wrote to tell us that he's been kidnapped by pirates and wants us to rescue him! We talked about how we could rescue Funky Monkey. Lilly said we should go on a pirate ship to find him, and Matthew and Jamie thought we should get some swords to fight the pirates. Trystan said we should use binoculars to find the ship and Aaron added that we should use binoculars and clipboards so we can try and find another message and write down what we found out. Lilly said we could write to the pirates - we agreed that this was a good idea. Ollie said we could say "Give Funky Monkey back" but Jamie thought we should write something nicer if we want the pirates to give him back - "Please can we have Funky Monkey back." Fallon said Funky Monkey wants to come home and we should write "Please let Funky Monkey come home because he might be tired and hungry and thirsty."
This afternoon we are going to write our letters to the pirates - will they let Funky Monkey go?!
This afternoon we are going to write our letters to the pirates - will they let Funky Monkey go?!
Friday, 6 June 2014
The Pirates Next Door!
Today we read a book called The Pirates Next Door. It's about a family of pirates who move into a town - but the people who live there don't want pirates as neighbours! They think they're dirty and scruffy, they fire cannons from their ship, and they were digging up the roundabout in the middle of the night! Only Matilda was friendly to the pirates. But when the pirates headed back out to sea, they left a special present behind for everyone, which made them change their minds about whether pirates were really all that bad..!
We talked about how people were feeling in the story and why most of the people in the town didn't want the pirates around. We discussed whether it was fair to try and get someone thrown out of a place just because they were different and you didn't like them, and how the pirates might have felt about being treated so unkindly.
We realised that lots of our values link with the story, mostly because the people in the town were not showing them! They weren't caring or showing friendship, they didn't want to share their town, they didn't trust the pirates, they weren't co-operating and all working together to make the town a nice place to live, and they weren't tolerating the pirates.
We decided that if some pirates moved in next door to us, we'd be very kind, friendly and tolerant. If anyone moves next door to us, or near us, or into our class - we are going to show them kindness and tolerance, even if they are a little bit different to us - just like Matilda did!
We talked about how people were feeling in the story and why most of the people in the town didn't want the pirates around. We discussed whether it was fair to try and get someone thrown out of a place just because they were different and you didn't like them, and how the pirates might have felt about being treated so unkindly.
We realised that lots of our values link with the story, mostly because the people in the town were not showing them! They weren't caring or showing friendship, they didn't want to share their town, they didn't trust the pirates, they weren't co-operating and all working together to make the town a nice place to live, and they weren't tolerating the pirates.
We decided that if some pirates moved in next door to us, we'd be very kind, friendly and tolerant. If anyone moves next door to us, or near us, or into our class - we are going to show them kindness and tolerance, even if they are a little bit different to us - just like Matilda did!
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
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!
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!
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
Challenging maths!
This morning Harry, Maddie, Grace, Lucy and Aaron were doing some challenging maths work on partitioning. They learnt that when you partition a number you split it up. They were partitioning two digit numbers by splitting them into tens and units. Look at their fabulous work! Well done all of you.
Treasure maths
Today we've been practising our addition skills using pirate treasure coins! We had different amounts and had to work out how much treasure we'd have if we stole some treasure from another pirate! Although we could count the coins to see how many there were, we were practising working out what the calculation would be and then how to solve it by counting on in our heads. So, if Jamie had 5 coins and he stole 3 from Maddie, the calculation would be 5 + 3, and by working that out in our heads we know it's 8! We did have a big calculation to solve when we wanted to work out how many coins we had altogether, so we put them altogether and counted them.
Tomorrow we're going to be practising our subtraction skills - will we be able to work out how much treasure we've got left after some is stolen by another pirate?!
The Troll!
This morning we read a book called The Troll by Julia Donaldson. It's about a troll who gets mixed up with a crew of pirates who are on the hunt for treasure! We talked about the story and how different characters were feeling at certain times. Then we talked about the words used to describe how different characters move, such as 'pattering', 'lolloping' and 'scuttling'. We moved around the classroom just like the characters in the book. We also thought of some words of our own to describe movement - we tried sliding (Maddie's idea) and galloping (Trystan's idea).
In the story the troll sees hoof prints in the sand. We talked about different animal prints and had a special challenge - 8 animal footprints that we had to match to the animal name! The animals were:
dog
duck
badger
fox
heron
otter
squirrel
deer
It was quite tricky but we did really well, especially identifying the deer and duck prints. Congratulations to Maddie and Lexi who were our overall winners - both girls correctly managed to identify five of the eight prints. Well done!
Monday, 2 June 2014
Ship Ahoy!
This morning we've been having a lot of fun exploring our new topic, Pirates! We've been reading pirate books and playing on our new pirate ship in the role play area. We've been learning how to talk like a pirate and we've been role playing steering the ship, lowering the anchor, following the treasure map, looking at the compass, firing the cannons, walking the plank and digging for buried treasure! Arrrrr!! We also used some big boxes outside to make a pirate ship.
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