The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch

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Write a diary from the point of view of Mr Grinling. Use this video to get some ideas for your work: The lighthouse keeper’s lunch is ‘delicious’. Can you think of any synonyms? Can you think of any antonyms?

Alongside writing a lighthouse description, your children could draw a lighthouse with this How to Draw a Lighthouse resource! Younger children might enjoy colouring one in that's already been designed, here. Key features of a lighthouse: This activity will not only help pupils with their literacy skills, such as descriptive writing, it will also help them develop and improve with their geography knowledge and skills. For example, writing a lighthouse description will involve them discussing where lighthouses can be found and what they’re used for. It would tie in well with a lesson on ‘features of the seaside’. As seen in this, Features of the Seaside Lesson for KS1, a lighthouse is a key human geographical feature! Can this resource be used at home? Role-play the different characters in the story (Mr and Mrs Grinling, Hamish the cat, and the seagulls). How were they feeling at different points in the story? Mr and Mrs Grinling star in a number of other books including The Light House Keeper’s Catastrophe, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Rescue, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Picnic, and The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cat

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The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch has been successfully adapted for the stage. David Wood wrote a musical play based on the story which was first performed at the Oxford Playhouse in 2000 with two professional actors and a large cast of children drawn from local schools many of whom had never been inside a theatre before. It was also adapted in 2017 by Nicola Sangster and Gareth Cooper for the Pied Piper Theatre Company.

Write a sequel for the book, showing how the fisherman in the boat stopped the seagulls from eating his lunch. Stunning lighthouse pictures: http://abduzeedo.com/amazing-pictures-lighthouses Activity 3: Grace under pressure Choose two types of sandwiches and make a Venn diagram to show which children like / don’t like each of them.

Explore the forces in action when Mr Grinling rows his boat out to the lighthouse. What forces are in action when his lunch is being carried along the wire?

Use this exciting and engaging Describe the Lighthouse Writing Activity Sheet with your class, to help them construct and write their own sentences about a lighthouse! To help pupils write a lighthouse description, this resource includes a great, easy-to-follow template with a useful box of keywords that children can look through and decide which adjectives best describe the lighthouse before recording their own sentences below. Can they include a wide range of expanded noun phrases about the lighthouse in their sentences? Use the lighthouse in the book as a starting point for a design and technology activity. Get the children to study a variety of lighthouses and talk about the requirements for an effective design. What are the main elements of a lighthouse design and why is it built in this way? What kind of things does a lighthouse need to withstand? What colours are used for lighthouses and why might these colours have been chosen? Sue Cowley takes The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch as inspiration for four fun-filled, ocean-themed activities... Lighthouses have a bright light at the top of the tower to help sailors see and stop them crashing into the shore To help children become familiar with the differences between the geographical features of a town and the coast, you can give them this Town and Coast 'Where Does It Belong?' Worksheet to do. This worksheet will get young learners to identify features and place them in the right location.The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, by Ronda and David Armitage, is a brilliant book for inspiring classroom activities around the topic of the sea, its history and the brave people who keep us safe at the seaside and away from dry land. The wonderful vocabulary within the story is in itself a great reason for choosing this book to start your topic. Words such as ‘industrious’, ‘concocts’ and ‘brazen’ help this tale trip off your tongue. Get your children thinking about what these new words mean, using the sound and the context to help them work it out.