Jack and The Beanstalk Tall and Short Stories

Monseigner Money Spider one afternoon was abseiling down the bank vault, when he slipped - Gosh ! he felt a goon !

As his furry foot became ungripped, he tripped the switch … from OFF to ON !

When he ran, the button slipped - and the photocopier began.

Soon, the whole bank was like a disco - it didn’t matter much if there were four bank robbers on the go !

Monseigner Money Spider narrowly missed the light switch, as he fell … so ON he switched the alarm as well !

You’d never seen a bank so well lit, as when Monseigner Money Spider’s spidery legs danced a bit !

Needless to say, he couldn’t decide where on his spidery web to sit … so, needless to say, his size 12 spidery legs and his size 14 boots didn’t fit !

Monseigner Money Spider didn’t mean to at all, but he landed on the photocopier - a great soft landing from his fall !

Monseigner Money Spider pressed the button “START” … Ooops ! three sheets of paper into the air started to depart.

With the photocopying speed switched to “FAST” - a splash of ink went quickly past.

Off the printer set … printing more money than even a money spider could spend in an entire year, I bet !

Until four, the photocopier printed more and more. By five, Monseigner Money Spider could hardly be seen alive !

As quick as a flash, Monseigner Money Spider tried to put the cash back - but a million pounds fell out of Monseigner Money Spider’s sack !

As on a thread, he dangled … in his pockets his stolen loose change jangled !

At six in the evening, you couldn’t see Monseigneur Money Spider anymore … underneath a pile of tenners as high as the bank vault door !

With all the cash that the out of control money - making machine printed, Monseigneur Money Spider was immeadiately minted !

The stakes were so high, he caught a fly - lucky, ‘cos he’d never be working again as a bank manager’s pet building cobwebs in the sky.

The bank manager, naturally, was delighted as punch - though all the money from the bank had disappeared when he returned from lunch !

Monseigneur Money Spider’s Easy Money Maths Assessment

Here is a Maths game not so hard to do … in fact, it’s easy as one plus one - which, of course, is two ! Look at your syllabus (the subjetcs covered in your curriculum) and makr them along this continuum line below. Which topics do you find the hardest and the easiest to do ?

EASY……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….HARDA

Fistfight Over A Fistful of Fivers

How many £5 notes would be in the following amounts ?

30    65    120    150    225    900    750    345    525    400    600    800    1000

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The biggest ever spider decided to take a trip … he set off from his home in the Amazon jungle and across the Pacific Ocean did flip. The biggest ever spider had legs that really were quite long - so he needed an enormous web which could hold his weight - that wouldn’t break and would be incredibly strong. The world wide web was bigger than a trampoline - it had to be in order to hold the biggest spider that had ever been seen. Off he set, bouncing at quite a height - onto Mount Kilamanjaro, where he stopped off for the night. Once the spider had rested, the elasticity of the web, he tested. He bounced up and down to check the elasticity and within minutes, ended up in Mexico city ! Once he’d made it around the globe, the biggest ever living spider, hoped that his next journey would be considerably wider. Perhaps, even big enough to take in the entire universe, so he could trip between the planets and the moons, of course. The world wide web might even cover the hole in the ozone layer, and cast a shadow across Earth, making it much greyer. I wonder if any of the world’s computer users know, how many wider spiders are making the internet go ?

Find ten maths sites that the biggest ever spider could use on the internet to help with the following maths problems.

1. If you were an enormous spider and the world was covered in an enormous spider’s web, where would you travel to and why ?

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Answers :

When Monseigneur Money Spider built a web, to catch all the flies in the bank, he hardly expected that the Bank manager would join in the prank. Very soon, he too was caught - red - handed with much more money than he ought. As well as one or two tasty insects that Monseigneur Money Spider picked up for tea, he also caught a five pound note, that wrapped in the thread, couldn’t get free. Soon, he was having a really swinging good time, dangling above the gold bars, hung on a spidery string line. As he span around on his spidery thread, he abseiled down the bank vault and almost crashed his head ! His spidery web made a great trampoline … for climbing upto the windows, when they needed to have a clean. Monseigneur Money Spider had never seen so much money - as when he made a spider’s web from the bank door to the dunny !

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Monseigneur Money Spider was in a spin. The revolving door of the bank where he lived was stuck and his patience was wearig thin. He didn’t know how to get out … nor could he get in. When it came to finding his way around the bank vault, he didn’t know where to begin and the thread on which he hung was getting precariously thin. He hoped it wouldn’t snap, at all, and he wouldn’t be able to climb back up the wall. Monseigneur Money Spider tried to dismount, but there were so many millions of bank notes piled up high, that he quickly started to lose count. He went to take a look around the vault, wondering what it was that was at fault. Monseigneur Money Spider was having a real good time - but he hadn’t expected that his trip would cost him so many nickels and dimes.

Money Makes The World Go Round Merry - Go - Round

Circle around the word “round” inside these bigger words. Then make a snetence using the word as an example. roundabout

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‘ Arry the ‘airy spider was so very hairy, that he frightened away all the creepy crawlies in Jack’s beanstalk because he was so scary. When one hundred ants needed to shoo, ‘Arry the ‘airy spider just said “Boo !”. When ‘Arry showed his fangs, the ladybirds all ran away … and didn’t come out from behind a leaf for all day. ‘Arry was a monster spider - whose eyes glistened wider and wider. When ‘Arry took a munching big bite, Jack’s beanstalk wobbled, the chaffinch fell from such a height that he broke his leg and could no longer take flight. When ‘Arry appeared, the insects got in such a flurry … that one hundred millipedes walked off in a hurry. Of course, a hundred millipedes hurrying at quite a speed, is enough to scare off even an ‘airy spider, scurrying to feed. At last, Jack’s beanstalk was rid of the critter … and ‘ Arry the ‘airy spider was left picking up left over litter.

Circle ‘ Arry the ‘airy spider hiding inside these words. Where are the letters A - R - Y ?functionary

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Circle ‘ Arry the ‘airy spider hiding inside these words. Where are the letters A - R - Y ?

functionary

examplary

emissary

missionary

documentary

discretionary

commentary

arbitrary

reactionary

fragmentary

elementary

cautionary

stationary

scary

wary

Write ten sentences that include one word ending in “- airy”. Example - extraordinairy, fairy, dairy, ordinairy.

Write one sentence with each of these words.

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The tarantula from the Transvaal, who came to stay in Jack’s beanstalk shook the leaves of the beanstalk when he started to walk. He was the spidery - est creature that had ever climbed up a wall. In fact, he span so many cobwebs that he could hardly be seen at all. He left on the chairs, tarantula hairs, and almost got sat on - because nobody cares. Munching flies with a tarantula appetite, he saw a grasshopper and took a big bite. He devoured three dragonfly before settling down for the night. In the Transvaal, of beanstalks, there aren’t very many, nor a few money spiders (and they don’t have a penny !). The tarantula from the Transvaal, slipped on a raindrop and started to fall - that’s when he really started to have a ball ! Though he didn’t have any pegs, the tarantula’s eight legs, were great when he was crawling on the washing line … it helped him abseil down Jack’s beanstalk and get to the bottom on time ! 

The Starry Tarantula

Tra or ta ? Which is the correct one to use ?

s______ t

______ get

______ iff

______ nish

s______ k

______ t

s______

______ ngle

______ lly

______ me

______ mper

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______ ctor

 Tar or Ter ?

ex ______

ca______ing

cat______y

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mat______

______nsaction

pat______

______nquil

bat______

______mp

flat______y

______nscribe

bat______y

______ffic

clat______

______ditional

fat______

______il

grea______

______ck

chat______

mouse______p

jit______y

______demark

lit______

coa______ck

knit______

______ilblazer

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______ct

______gedy

______jectory

______nsgression

Answers : Ta or tra ? start; target; tariff; tarnish; stark; start; star; tangle; tally; tame; tamper; tangy; tank; tractor Answers : Tar or Ter ? extra; catering; tractor; cattery; train; matter; transaction; patter; tranquil; batter; tramp; flattery; transcribe; battery; traffic; clatter; traditional; fatter; trail; greater; track; chatter; mousetrap; jittery; trademark; litter; coatrack; knitter; trailblazer; otter; tract; tragedy; trajectory; transgression

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 The Multi - Millionaire Quiz

Circle the word “multi” in these phrases and give an example in a sentence where the word might be used.

_____________________________________________________________

Multiplied ________________________________________________________________________________Multi Multi - national

________________________________________________________________________________ Multiply

________________________________________________________________________________ Multi - function

________________________________________________________________________________

Multi - talented

________________________________________________________________________________ Multiplication

________________________________________________________________________________ Multiple

________________________________________________________________________________ Multitude

________________________________________________________________________________Multi Multi - science

________________________________________________________________________________

Multiplicity ________________________________________________________________________________

back into these words ?

________ note

________ manager

river ________

grassy ________

________ reserve

Federal ________

________ deposit

________ withdrawal

________ rupt

________ ruptcy

________ er

data ________

________ cheque

________ rate

break the ________

blood ________

________ book

________ roll

________ holiday

________ ing

left ________

Jodrell ________

savings ________

sperm ________

co - operative ________

commercial ________

________ robber

Robert The Robber’s Safe Box

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Monseigneur Money Spider thought he’d have a garage sale …

And clear out the broom cupboard of all the rubbish and old mail,

Monseigneur Money Spider went to sweep up the dust,

And a number of crumbs left from the crust.

He slickly scaled down the broomstick …

And got knocked over by the brush and pan as it flick !

Monseigneur Money Spider shot off into mid - air,

Over the table and landed on a chair.

Luckily the cushion made a soft landing, indeed,

And no - one much seemed to notice the tiny money spider as he fleed.

Monseigneur Money Spider stitched a thread,

Then abseiled down it into the reach the shed.

He almost got stuck in one of the shoes,

There were so many, he didn’t know which to choose !

 1. If Monseigneur Money Spider was one - hundredth of the size of the height of the high heel shoe, which was 12 cm high, how big was he ?

 2. If Monseigneur Money Spider floated 125 cm - 75% of the way from the top of the broom to the bottom. Therefore, how long was the broom ?

 3. If Monseigneur Money Spider landed in 20% of the 120 shoes, how many a) did he land in ? b) did he not land in ?

 4. If Monseigneur Money Spider’s 600 cm spidery thread was long enough to go around the vacuum cleaner six times, what was the circumference of the vacuum cleaner ?

 5. If Monseigneur Money Spider took thirty seconds to make it from the top of the broom cupboard door to the handle, half way down, how long did it take him to reach the bottom of the door ?

 6. If Monseigneur Money Spider flew threw the air at a speed of 1.2 m / minute, how long did he take to reach the other end of the hall, 15 m away ?

 7. If Monseigneur Money Spider crawled on 4 of the 8 chairs, what fraction, decimal and percentage is this ?

 8. If Monseigneur Money Spider caught one crumb in his spidery web every 90 seconds, he caught 50 crumbs in how many minutes ?

 9. There were 15 boxes in the broom cupboard and Monseigneur Money Spider made a web on 33% of them. How many had a spidery web on them ?

 10. As well as Monseigneur Money Spider, there were 14 other money spiders in the broom cupboard and 30 ants. Express this as a ratio.

 11. There was a sack of potatoes in the broom cupboard and Monseigneur Money Spider climbed over 9 % of them. If the sack contained 900 potatoes, how many did he not climb over ?

 12. Monseigneur Money Spider couldn’t see in the dark ! The light switched on and off 8 times in one hour. How often is that ?

Game 8 Answers : 1. 0.12 cm; 2. 166.6 cm; 3. a) 24 b) 96; 4. 100 cm ; 5. 1 minute; 6. 12.5 minutes; 7. 1/2 = 0.5 = 50%; 8. 75 mins; 9. 5; 10. 15 : 30 = 1 : 2; 11. 819; 12. a) every 7.5 minutes