Carlo Gems Blog: July 2014

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Negative number tasks to do.

http://www.thegreatmartinicompany.com/negativenumbers/negative-number-addition.html

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/negnumorder.swf

http://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Negative_Numbers.asp?Level=2

Friday, July 25, 2014

Have a great holiday Ibrahim and don't forget to email us.

Some new narratives to read.

Text type: Narrative

Purpose: To entertain

Audience: 5/6J and visitors

The Lighthouse

One stormy night in the small shoddy village of Magile in Sweden. The whole village except the lighthouse keeper was having a party to celebrate New Year. Meanwhile the lighthouse keeper was writing in his dairy and was infuriated by the noise of the party and slammed the window shut.

At that very moment the power blacked out through the whole village. The lighthouse keeper noticed that the light was of at once, but he didn’t know why. He hurriedly grabbed his toolbox and rushed up the rickety, spiral, creaking staircase.

He reached the top puffing and panting. He wasn’t used to sprinting and he put his toolbox down and checked the gears. None of them were moving.

“That’s odd; he thought the gears always run like clockwork.”

Then he thought it must be the bulb so he hurriedly climbed the old wooden ladder that led to the observation platform that held the bulb. He opened the hatch and the wind bit him instantly. He chattered so hard that he thought his teeth would fall out. He clambered up the last few rungs and scuttled over and opened the magnifying lens and checked the bulb. As he was checking it he heard the ear-splitting noise of a foghorn of an incoming ship. Noise hit him like thunder and so did the dread of what would happen if he didn’t fix the light. He hurriedly lifted the bulb to check the circuitry underneath the bulb, but he was in such a rush that he didn’t look where he was going. He tripped over backwards the bulb shattered beyond repair. He skedaddled down the stairs and threw open the door. He was surprised and shocked to see the villagers strolling up the steep hill path to the lighthouse.

The villagers had also heard the foghorn of the ship and noticed the lighthouse was off and were carrying oil lamps they were going to make a human lighthouse, but they had to work fast because the ship was only a minute away from crashing into the jagged rocks. The lighthouse keeper hurriedly ordered them on the platforms of the lighthouse and around the lighthouse. The ship turned away in the nick of time and they actually heard the ship scrape the rocks.

By Lucifer