Jack and The Beanstalk Tall and Short Stories

Where is the word “nail” inside these sentences ?

1. The snail crawled over the cabbage leaf.
2. The decorator nailed the picture to the wall.
3. I bought a new bottle of nail varnish remover.
4. The nail fell out of the cupboard.
5. Nailed to the pinboard, you will find ten pins.

© Jacqueline Richards 2008

Farmer Giles had the stompiest feet,

He even dug compost with a stomping beat,

In the first competition heat,

He squashed three cabbages small and neat,

Needless to say, none of the carrots were now fit to eat !

And when he sat down, he used a turnip as a seat !

 So, now, his turnip picnic, is more like crackers for a treat !

Divide the class into teams, each with a different vegetable team name, say, “the turnips”. Then, team by team, each team devises a vegetable maths question - if the opposing team can answer it, they get a point, otherwise it’s a point for the designing team.

Farmer Giles’ Compost & Co

How many words, like compost and competition, can you think of that begin in the two letters “c” + “o” ?

The strawberries and the blackberries were having a race - they wanted to see who could build the biggest compost heap into outer space. Divide the class into two teams - each team member adds one vegetable on top of the pile - but none can be bigger than 10 cm wide - then adds onto the cumulative sum. The winning team is the one which reaches the top of the whiteboard first and fastest (as well as adding up the size of all the vegetables correctly).

When the loose goose slipped his noose, he ran across the farm and created havoc around the house. The loose goose ran through the letterbox and up the stairs, underneath the table and laid an egg on one of the chairs. There were feathers flying everywhere ! The cows moo –ed “Don’t move so quick and watch the cat !”, before the loose goose knew it, he’d “SPLAT !” in a cowpat. Three ducks ducked for cover … as the loose goose came to hover. What bother ! A dog barked and ran away, when the loose came to stay for the day. Even the birds, who’d been sleeping in their nest, fluttered their wings because of the loose goose pest. When it came to laying eggs, the loose goose was always best. Then the loose goose flew over the barn and lay another in the hay to keep the egg warm. In the farmyard, the loose goose was looser than ever, he fluttered around, leaving loose feathers. When the loose goose went outside to stretch his legs, out popped another one of his eggs. In the kitchen, he laid an egg in the frying pan – he laid the biggest egg that any goose possibly can. The loose goose quacked out loud … and very soon, his quacking drew quite a crowd. All the frogs came to watch the loose goose lay a size six batch … after a while, some began to hatch. The loose goose called to his gander cousin – he’d had an order from the market for another dozen. The sheep, as he was knitting a new woollen coat, asked the goose to lay one for the goat. There were many more eggs than a goose could eat … a few got crushed by the horse’s feet. The loose goose laid so many loose eggs on the garden washing line, they had to be kept on with pegs … the loose goose wasn’t only loose with his eggs.

 © Jacqueline Richards 2007

By the side of the beanstalk, in Farmer Gile’s field, grew an enormous carrot that belonged to the pirate’s parrot - Farmer Giles’ proudest ever yield. Although the potatoes that year were small, like the beanstalk that grew up the wall, the carrot soon grew strong and tall. There weren’t many peas and the cauliflowers were small - but this year’s enormous carrot was the biggest and best of all. At harvest, when it was time to pick it, Jack tried hard, but it was impossible with just a spade to nick it. Farmer Giles dug a hole through which he could almost see Australia, but when it came to gathering giant carrots, his efforts were a bit of a failure. It took three tractors to haul it out … and a rope that was as long as one of the beanstalk branches to pull it about. At first, Farmer Giles thought that it was completely stuck, so he called to Captain C. Waves to bring his fishing hook. They tugged so hard that even the beanstalk shook. Inch by inch, upon a winch, the carrot flew from the ground then even span Jack around. To take it to market, Jack tried to weigh it on the scales, but the enormous carrot was heavier than Wales. When it came to cooking it, needless to say, the carrot didn’t fit. So the woodcutter with his axe, tried to cut off a bit. It took a bulldozer to lift the enormous carrot back up and the soup that it made could fill five hundred cups. The fairies in Bluebell Glade, went gathering mushrooms - so the feast was the greatest ever made. The carrot stew was the tastiest ever, that year, which Jack and Farmer Giles are still eating, on the beanstalk grapevine, I hear.

Lots Of Carrot Maths For Parrots

If the carrot weighed 100 kilograms, measured ten metres long and four metres wide …

1. What percentage of the carrot’s length was above the ground when 30% was pulled out ? Give your answer in m and cm.

2. How much of the carrot’s length was above the ground when one - fifth was pulled out ? Give your answer in m and cm.

3. How much of the carrot’s length was above the ground when 0.5 was pulled out ? Give your answer in m and cm.

4. How much of the carrot’s length was under the ground when 20% was pulled out ? Give your answer in m and cm.

5. How much of the carrot’s length was showing behind a beanstalk, if the beanstalk, by comparison, was 3.2 metres wide ? Give your answer in m and cm.

6. How much of the carrot’s length was above the ground when 80% was pulled out ? Give your answer in m and cm.

7. How much of the carrot’s length was above the ground when one - quarter was pulled out ? Give your answer in m and cm.

8. How much of the carrot’s length was above the ground when three - sixths was pulled out ? Give your answer in m and cm.

9. How much of the carrot’s weight was above the ground when 25% was pulled out ? Give your answer in g and kg.

10. How much of the carrot’s length was under the ground when 0.4 was pulled out ? Give your answer in m and cm.

11. If the carrot was pulled out at a speed of 10 centimetres per hour, how long did it take to become completely free ? Give your answer in hours and days.

12. If the 2.5 metres of the carrot was pulled out, how much was still underground ? Give your answer in m and cm.

© Jacqueline Richards 2008Answers : 1. 70 %

2. 2 m = 200 cm

3. 5 m = 500 cm

4. 8 m = 800 cm

5. 4 - 3.2 = 0.8 m = 80 cm

6. 2 m = 200 cm

7. 2.5 m = 250 cm

8. 5 m = 500 cm

9. 2500 g = 2.5 kg

10. 6m = 600 cm

11. 10 x 10 = 100 hours = 4.16 days

12. 7.5 m

Jack’s horse, Tony the Pony had knees that were knobbly and bony. Whenever he went galloping around the town, you could hear his clip - clopping, before he came around. Tony the Pony liked to trip around the beanstalk … but the beanstalk was so big that it did take a while. He often met Farmer Giles sat upon the stile. Tony the Pony was so fast, you could hardly see him as he went racing past. Tony the Pony was quite great, he jumped over every one of Farmer Giles’ gates. Galloping in the middle of the meadow, in the dew, before very long, he’d dropped a horseshoe. Tony the Pony looked all around, but he could only see daisies growing on the ground and the odd poppy was all that he found. The puddleduck lent him her webbed flippers, showing Tony the Pony how to waddle in slippers. Naturally, he looked quite a pillock, trying to look like a duck, waddling around the hillock. He quickly gave up on the matter and headed off to the footpath, where the ground was flatter. Next, Tony the Pony, tried to fly like a bird, though wearing feathers on his saddle, he looked quite absurd. Along came a centipede, with a clakkerty beat. So Tony the Pony asked him to lend him one for his hooves - he was sure they’d suit a treat - and that he would no longer topple over, in the middle of the wheat. Very soon, of course, with one hundred shoes, he was once more quickly on the move. The centipede’s shoes, of course were tiny and petite - hardly a fit for Tony the Pony’s galloping feet. When Tony the Pony came across a pig, he asked him for one of his trotters - hoping they’d be a little more big. In the pig’s trotters, Tony the Pony started to totter. They didn’t look all that nice and he fell over once or twice ! Next, Tony the Pony asked a sheep - who said his woolly slippers could be bought in town where they were quite cheap. The hillside that Tony the Pony was climbing was so steep, he fell back down in quite a heap. As Tony the Pony considered the problem over some hay … along came a butterfly passing his way. The butterfly said he had some left over from his caterpillar days, and that the fashionable multi - colours were quite a craze. Tony the Pony tried them on for size, when he tried fluttering like a butterfly, the animals in Jack’s beanstalk couldn’t believe their eyes. When the weather got worse, they shrunk and didn’t fit his feet, of course. So, Tony the Pony borrowed a pair of socks, from a cow, asleep on the rocks. Resting on a log, was a very noisy dog - who suggested that perhaps furry feet were what Tony the Pony might need to make him all tidy and neat. The cow said they no longer fit his udder and in the cold weather, they only made him shudder. Tony the Pony stretched them somewhat to see if they’d fit over the size twelve hooves that he’d got. Tony the Pony walked further down the path … he skidded in a puddle and landed in a mud bath ! Whilst he was washing his socks by the riverside, a fisherman showed him the fish that he’d caught with pride. But Tony the Pony wasn’t interested in them at all - he much preferred the Wellington boots that made the fisherman ten feet tall ! “I’d like a pair just like that !”, remarked Tony the Pony as he straightened his hat. When the fisherman went off cooking, Tony the Pony stole them, whilst he wasn’t looking. His new Wellington boots, fit a dream - he especially liked the colour, black with splashes of green. He paraded his footwear all over the farm, stomping up and down on the spot, in order to keep his four feet warm.

Can you see “Tony” hiding inside these words ? (sometimes, the letters may be jumbled up).

gluttony

country

dictionary

disappointingly

bouyant

continuity

consilatory

conventionally

stoney

botany

attorney

contrary

institutionally

torrentially

Horseshoes Add the letters S - H - O or S - H - O -O to complete the words

horse ____ w

____ rt

____ t

____ cking

____ pping

____ wing

____ vel

____ wn

____ t

____ t

____ p

____ al

____ re

____ ne

____ ddy

____ cking

____ ut

____ wer

__ __ r __ ud

____ p - keeper

____ rten

2. Whenever he went galloping around the _____, you could hear his clip - clopping, before he came around.

3. Tony the Pony liked to trip around the beanstalk … but _____ beanstalk was so big that it did take a while.

4. He often met Farmer _____ sat upon the stile.

5. Tony the Pony was so fast, you _____ hardly see him as he went racing past.

6. Tony the Pony was quite great, _____ jumped over every one of Farmer Giles’ gates.

Which Shoes Fit Which Animal ?

trotters  … horseshoe … flippers … hooves … waders … 

horse - pig - frog - cow - duck

© Jacqueline Richards 2007

Answers :1. had

Jemima Puddleduck had a twaddle waddle. Whenever she went out in a puddle for a paddle, she didn’t walk straight, but with a skewift waddle. Try as she might, to walk upright, she wobbled considerably, as she took off in flight. Although she tried to walk in a way that didn’t wobble and didn’t sway … she was such a plump duck that she fell over in the hay. She looked at all the other animals around Jack’s beanstalk and studied hard about how, like a catwalk model, to walk. The frog, she noticed, leapt about, whenever he wanted to jump from one lillypad to another. So Jemima Puddleduck tried that at first, but still her walk wasn’t straight … she skidded and crashed into the farmyard gate. Then she tried a long jump, over the duckpond, she landed in the middle, in even more of a muddle. Then the puddleduck tried to swim, like the athletes that she’d seen in the gym … or like the pond - skaters, who really knew how to skim. But when Jemima quacked, the ice on the pond cracked. Jemima Puddleduck didn’t float and was at least five metres from a boat. She fell right in. Luckily, the water was quite shallow, not deep, so Jemima Puddleduck from the waters could still peep. The birds, she noticed, when they flapped their wings, were much better at waddling than anything. So Jemima Puddleduck fluttered and tried to fly instead of sit … she looked quite ridiculous, sky - diving a bit. Jemima Puddleduck wished that she had fins, just like a fish, then her waddling would be quite so twaddle - ish ! Perhaps even strut like a lion or a tiger would be better, but when Jemima tried, she splashed so much, all the animals got wetter ! Jemima Puddleduck exercised daily, jogging in the park. Her twaddle waddling even drew a crowd, it was such a lark. To see how much time it would take and how many ripples that she could make, she waddled her way across the lake. Soon, the puddleduck was paddling so very fast, that none of her friends in Jack’s beanstalk, could see her as she waddled past.

Adding Paddling Puddleduck

Write a mathematical equation to show your working out to the following maths problems.

1. If Jemima Paddleduck travelled at a speed of 25 km / hour, how long did it take her to travel across the duckpond, 1 km wide ? Give your answer in minutes and seconds.

2. The ripples made by Jemima Puddleduck travelled across the duckpond three times as fast. How long did a ripple take to cross the duckpond ? Give your answer in minutes and seconds.

3. Jemima Puddleduck swam one fifth of the way across the pond in breast stroke, the rest she swam front crawl.

a) How far did she actually swim using each stroke ?

b) What proportion as a ratio did she swim each stroke ?

4. Jemima Puddleduck ate one lump of bread every four hours, thrown by a fisherman on the duckpond. Each lump of bread roughly measured 2 square cm. One loaf of bread contained 20 slices of bread.

a) How many bites were in one slice of bread ?

b) How long did a slice of bread measuring 16 cm long x 12 cm wide last(in hours and days) ?

c) How many loaves of bread were needed to feed Jemima Puddleduck for a whole year ?

5. Jemima Puddleduck dropped a feather every 5 metres. If she waddled across the pond,

a) How many feathers did she drop ?

b) How many of her 150 feathers were left ?

* you will need to find out the formula for working out the circumference of a circle.

Find all the words in the story that include the letters set - ADDLE, then write a brief definition of the following words. Give an example of how the word can be used in a sentence. Example - saddle, paddle.

Add the letters M - I - N - G to complete the words.

Smashing Splashing !

Circle the word “ash” inside these words.

smashing

flash

lash

wash

splash

fashion

gash

washer

stas

mash

bash

rash

rasher

washing

slash

smashed

© Jacqueline Richards 2007

Answers :

1. 60 / 25 = 2.4 minutes = 2 mins 24 secs

2. 60 / (3 x 25 = 75) = 0.8 minutes = 48 seconds3. 200 : 800 m = 1 : 44. a) (16 x 12 = 192) / 2 = 96 bites b) 96 x 4 = 384 hours = 16 days c) loaves + slices = (16 x 20 = 320) + (365 - 320 = 45) / 16 = 2.8, therefore, one loaf and 2.8 slices

hemmingslimming

In the field next to Jack’s beanstalk, was a haystack, that was almost as tall as Jack’s beanstalk itself. When Farmer Giles had been out harvesting, that is where he took a break, looking through his binoculars at what birds he could see on the lake. Sometimes, it was well after two, when he awoke from his afternoon snooze. But this day, he didn’t get much sleep at all - when he sat down in the pile of hay “OUCH !”, he cried, as something sharp got in the way. Farmer Giles jumped up - perhaps it was a bee ? or even a hidden pitchfork, that had been forgotten accidentally. Although he took a closer look, there was nothing at all to suggest what had been stuck. So he sat down again until … “OUCH “, he cried out again in pain. What was it that put him in such a spin ? Yes - you guessed it : a shiny, new pin. Mrs. Giles, the farmer’s wife, came along to help get it out with her knife. By now, Farmer Giles was in quite a fluster - summoning up all the courage that he could muster. He put on a plaster and a bit of ointment, too … then went to the hospital, where there stitched him (and his denim dungarees !) back together just like new.

Hey ! Hey ! Hey !

Should it be “h -e - y” or “h - a - y” inside these words ?

1. T __ __ __ arrived early.

2. “__ __ __ - watch out”.

3. He was quite a c __ __ tt __ person.

4. T __ __ __ ‘re not good friends.

5. The pitchfork was in the __ __ __ stack.

6. She __ __ stil __ put on her coat.

7. T __ __ __ ‘ll never come back here again.

8. Little Miss Muffet ate cuds and w __ __ __ .

9. He lived in a s __ __ nt __ town.

10. The road veered s __ __ rpl __ left.

© Jacqueline Richards 2008 Answers :

1. They arrived early.2. “Hey - watch out”.

How many words can you think of that include the letters R - U - R ? Example - rural.

__ __ mou ____ __ le __

__ ost __ __ m

__ ob __ ste __

__ evol __ tiona __ y

__ es __ __ rect

__ eso __ __ ceful

__ es __ __ gence

__ eq __ i __ e

__ eq __ i __ ement

__ ep __ od __ ce

__ et __ __ n

__ em __ ne __ ation

__ emo __ sef __ l

__ ec __ pe __ ate

__ eco __ __ se

__ eass __ __ e

© Jacqueline Richards 2007 Answers : rumour ; ruler ; ruder ; runner ; rustler ; rougher ; rustier ; run over ; rudimentary ; rough and ready ; rostrum ; robuster ; revolutionary ; resurrect ; resourceful ; resurgence ; require ; requirement ; reproduce ; return ; remuneration ; remorseful ; recuperate ; recourse ; reassure

As the beanstalk started to grow, so did one or two of it’s crows. No wonder, Jack got in such a flutter - when crows all around him flew off and on the gutter. Usually, Spring was the busiest time of year, when things around the beanstalk shift up a gear. The crows were busy building new nests and putting their fledglings to the test. But one crow, Lazy Daisy, was lazier than the rest. When all the other crows in the flock were up getting ready at six o’ clock, Lazy Daisy didn’t get out of bed until well past ten o’ clock … If the grass needed scratchin’, Lazy Daisy was sat on her nest, waitin’ for hatchin’. And she never once did any worm - catchin’. Lazy Daisy waited until some worms were dropped by the other crows as past the beanstalk they flew and on the wind, worms were blew. Lazy Daisy’s nest was only small - because she didn’t collect many twigs at all. When Lazy Daisy fluttered her wings, nothing much happened at all - she hardly made it upto the garden wall, let alone up to the chimney pots to call. But what made all the other birds even crazier, was when Lazy Daisy became even lazier … When it came to doing any work, Lazy Daisy was the first to shirk. If the bird house in the beanstalk needed fixing, Lazy Daisy was out and about, bringing the chicks in. Being chased by cats was much too like hard work, so Lazy Daisy, the crazy crow, much preferred to rest on Farmer Giles’ pitchfork. The scarecrow in the field next to the beanstalk, didn’t scare off Lazy Daisy … Although, the wind flapped his arms, Lazy Daisy stayed put on the farm. When all the crows flew away, Lazy Daisy slept on the scarecrow’s shoulder all day.

Cra - Cra - Cra Crazy Crow Spelling Game

Add the letters C - R - A to complete the words.

Jemima Puddleduck loved to swim - but in the summer there were very few puddles to jump in ! So off she went in search of some rain - that would help get her feet back wet again. Although she remembered that there had once been a storm, in the Summer, the weather had been really quite warm. She left muddy footprints along in the mud - and didn’t find a puddle to swim in as puddleducks should. Jemima Puddleduck heard about a swimming pool - that was in the garden and was really quite cool. She trod along the garden path looking for it but there wasn’t even a raindrop left in the aftermath. Next, Jemima Puddleduck looked underneath a tree - searching for splashes in which she could swim and wash her feathers before tea. Although overhead, grey rainclouds floated high - she didn’t even find one puddle that she perhaps could try. Jemima Puddleduck next tried a tank - but there was no water in it - when she jumped in, she sank ! There was absolutely nothing that she could have drank ! She stopped off at the shops - where there were a hundred bottles of fizzy pop - she fluttered her wings so much, that one or two dropped off the shelf with a PLOP ! She even bought a new umbrella … but the weather had all cleared up, before someone could tell ‘er ! Still no puddle - not one “SPLASH !” - Jemima Puddleduck went looking for puddles in such a dash, that she fell in the trash with a terrible CRASH ! Coming to the conclusion that puddling wasn’t what it used to be … she took a holiday by the Sea. She took her bucket and spade - and even bought a new pair of flippers - but without a puddle, there was little to either drip her or dip her !

Add the letters Q - U - A to complete the words.

© Jacqueline Richards 2007Answers :equateequal