5C - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

This week in year 5 we have been writing our own versions of 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'. Here is Max's opening paragraph.

Previously, we saw tiny Charlie Bucket floating high in orbit above his home town. Everyone was wildly excited, apart from Grandma Josephine who was petrified! After winning the Chocolate Factory, which was a marvel, Charlie was returning in triumph.

“Get us out of here!” screamed Grandma Josephine loudly.

“We must go higher!” Mr Wonka shouted excitedly.

“You mad man!” screeched Grandma Josephine, her voice filling with fear.

Rachel's space narrative from 5E

This week in 5E, we have been creating our own versions of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Each pupil created their own planet and alien. Below is Rachel's build up, where the elevator arrives at the unknown planet:

Although the elevator was programmed to float, it somehow dropped in time with the erupting screams spreading like an infectious cold, but an even crueller flu, which made Charlie deflate like a balloon. 

"Help!" Grandma Georgina screamed. How much worse could it get?

When Charlie reluctantly opened his heavy eyelids, he notcied he was covered in shattered glass, and was laying on a flat, ivory ground, trembling with fear. He moved his head, lookig at a dark, liquid blue sky. 

"Diiing!" Something screeched, and Charlie saw the most astounding thing in his life. He was frightened and amazed, his heart pounding.

5G's Narrative Writing Inspired by Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

This week we have used the original story of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator to inspire us to write our own versions of the text. Instead of landing on the Space Hotel and meeting the Knids, we have created our own planets and aliens and told our own adventure story! This is an extract from Kristian's narrative.

'Where are we?!' cried Grandma Josephine.
'Now look what you've done,' Mr Wonka retorted, 'We're in space!'
Charlie stared out of the window at the vast blackness of the sky. It was an extraordinary sight, there were stars everywhere and the planets seemed to line up from biggest to smallest. 

An hour later, they saw a planet which did not appear on the charts of the Solar System. No one had ever seen it before. 
'Where are we? What is this planet?' Charlie asked Mr Wonka.
'I don't know,' he replied. As it turns out, it was the planet Brazian. They landed on its strange surface and began to explore. There were curious trees of fire and volcanoes rose up from the ground like great furnaces of light and heat. Fire dripped down their sides. At the bottom of a valley lay a fiery ocean of boiling water, if they had stepped in it, they would have been burnt!

'We've discovered a new planet!' Mr Wonka gasped, staring around in wonder at the sight spread out before them. 

5C Alien Character Description

This week in 5C we have been continuing our work on 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'. In the book, Charlie and the gang are attacked by deadly aliens called Vermicious Knids. We made up our own aliens and wrote a character description.

Strangely, it resembled a nut but it had sharp nails on the tips of its fingers. It was as tall as a sky scraper and as fat as an oompa loompa. Its deep purple skin was covered in prickly hairs that gave off a deadly, pungent smell. At the top of its body it had a colossal red eye that could melt you with one stare. Surprisingly, it tiptoed inconspicuously on its dainty feet.

By Ben

5E's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Narrative

This week in Year 5 we have been continuing our journey in space through the eyes of Roald Dahl. We have rewritten the opening of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

Below is Katie's narrative, which is describing the moment when Charlie entered the Space Hotel:

They were feeling anxious and worried; nervous that just ahead of them they could see the mammoth Space Hotel shaped like a diamond. Carefully, Grandpa Joe attached their shimmering glass elevator to the humongous Space Hotel. Suddenly, inside the hotel - FLASH! - down like a lightening bolt, the Knids appeared.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Narrative Writing by 5G

This week in Year 5 we have been re-telling the story of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Here is an extract from our shared writing as a class. We hope you enjoy it!

Charlie Bucket was an ordinary boy to whom the most extraordinary things happened. Mere hours after being told he was to inherit Willy Wonka's legendary chocolate factory; he found himself hurtling through the skies in an elevator to collect his family, accompanied by none other than Mr Wonka himself. It was an exhilarating ride!

They landed with a bump in the living room of Charlie's tiny, bedraggled house to be greeted by the astonished stares of Charlie's parents and three, bed-ridden grandparents.
'I have the most unbelievably amazing news' he exclaimed as he exited the elevator excitedly. 
'Spit it out then', replied Grandma Georgina rudely.
'We are all going to live in Mr Wonka's factory, he says I am going to take over from him one day!' 
A beatific beam spread across his face as he spoke.

Unsurprisingly, this announcement was greeted by a great deal of joy and excitement, followed by a rather heated debate about how, exactly, the bed-ridden grandparents were to be transported to said factory. After eventually agreeing that the enormous, unweildy bed could be squashed into the elevator, they set off. They had not got very far however, when Grandma Georgina began to panic in a most obnoxious way.

'This man is cracked! He's as crazy as a teapot, as loopy as a broomstick!' she shrieked as the elevator rose higher and higher into the brilliant, azure sky. The sun was winking off the glass walls of the elevator as they ascended, and even Charlie and Grandpa Joe began to feel a little concerned...

5E's Character Description of Willy Wonka

This week in Year 5, we have continued to study space and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. We wrote character descriptions for the wonderful Willy Wonka. Here is Ashiq's:

The enthusiastic Willy Wonka wears a plum velvet jacket whilst his Oompa Loompa assistants fondly dance and sing. He is as smart as Albert Einstein, although his ideas are as mad as a hatter. The recent owner of the famous chocolate factory, Charlie Bucket, admires Willy's out of this world actions. Mr Wonka loves to sample his delightful treats and care tenderly for his minion assistants.

Willy Wonka Character Description, 5G

Mr Willy Wonka

Mr Willy Wonka, an adroit man,with eyes full of more wonders than the human mind could ever imagine. He wears a purple blazer - as smooth as can be - a smart bow tie and golden trousers over his lanky legs. His hair curls round like little twirls of spaghetti and blows gently in the wind. Brown polished shoes cover his feet, gleaming in the rays of the Sun. His creased face hides an extraordinary talent. This man may look old but that has no effect on his mind, he remains as sharp as any man ever was. 

Mr Wonka is a little insane. He is incredibly generous and gave his entire chocolate factory to Charlie after Charlie proved himself to be worthy, Willy Wonka is a great judge of human character. He is rather formal and uses odd phrases in his speech, often confusing people. He is however, an intellectual and a genius inventor!

By Nancy, 5G