Month: June 2020

Hello folks how are you all?

For my artists around the world task l chose to learn about… Hayo Miyazaki! Here are some facts about him.

• He is a Japanese manga artist.

• He is also an animator, filmmaker and co founder of Studio Ghibli.

• He is 79 but he is still working/ drawing!

• He made at least 38 movies!
• Every film he has made contains a flying scene because of his love for airplanes.
• He traveled a lot when he was a child and that is what inspired his artwork.

Here is my picture of Princess Mononoke in his style.

Today l made a map of my garden with my daddy and sister. It was great fun but a little bit hard to start with. The most interesting part of the task was learning how to draw an accurate map from our rough measurements. Here is the finished result…

Until next time…

 

 

 

Hi everyone!

Today I learned about mapping. I did this by mapping my garden. I learned about measuring distances I also learned about:

• scale
• orientation
• reference points
• perimeter
• area
• grids

Daddy helped with my grid, but here is my finished map.What do you think?

 

Hi,

Yesterday I did some of my maths and reading then we went on our bikes around Dock Park but we didnt go into the play bit as we are not allowed because of the coronovirus. I can’t wait until they open again.

Today we made our own campfire. We got an old pot, got some cotton wool and covered it in vaseline then added small sticks. I lit it with a lighter. I was very careful. I remembered that u kneel down on one knee and keep your distance from the fire as it’s very hot! We got marshmallows and toasted them then squashed them in a biscuit. It was yummy.

After that we checked by plants to see how they are growing. Look at the difference. I think the radish pot that is getting sun and water looks the best.

I was so hot mum filled the paddling pool up so I could cool down. I wish one of my friends  could come and  play with me in the pool. I cant wait until this virus is away!!

Hi Everyone

Yesterday, I made a catapult out of lollipop sticks for “week in the woods”. The instruction the teachers gave us used big bits of wood, but I didn’t have enough, so we used lollipop sticks instead. It was a bit frustrating building it, but it was fun shooting it at my dad.

It went 5m92cm cool right.

Here is how to make it if you want to do it too.

Catapult video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBKEUUiBBFY

Today I also went on a walk in the woods with Beans (my dog) and my mum.  My mum and I went about identifying trees on our walk (Beans was very busy sniffing the scents so didn’t seem very interested in knowing which trees were which).

Here are some of the trees we found (we downloaded a free app from the Woodland Trust to help us identify the trees)

• • Birch
  • Oak
  • Goat Willow
  • Hazel
  • Norway maple
  • Ash
  • Rowan
  • Common Beech
  • Elder

We also spotted some climbing and parasitic plants (parasitic plants are plants that grow on other plants and gain some of their nutrients from the host) :

• Honeysuckle
• Ivy
• Lichen
• Moss

We also saw or heard these birds:

• Grey wagtail
• Chaffinch
• Jay
• Raven
• Buzard
• Pheasant

We also some Ermine moth caterpillars who build nests in the willow leafs branches.

See you later

Joe

Today I’ve been quite busy. First I went shopping with my mum. That didn’t take long. When we got back from the shops I did my Maths. I did some of the textbook. After that I did my English. I started a power point about horses. I am putting the facts that I don’t know on it. Then I did my Spanish. I am using the app Duolingo. I’ve recently started a course on French. That wraps up today’s blog bye. By Orla.

Hello,

Today I helped doing the gardening, lighting a fire, melting marshmallows, building a den then had my gymnastics class.  Today in gymnastics we had some fun time, we had to draw our teachers as characters – I picked Minnie & Mickey, then had to spell our names with stuff in the house, I choose Nutella Ice Apple Mickey Hat.  We then worked on some of our shapes and I have to work on my forward roll to straddle sit for next weeks class.

Hi,

Today we worked on setting a fire, made s’mores, built a den and cut the grass for Mum.

Today is very warm! We had a great day in the woods, we saw lots of wild flowers and took pictures of them, the foxglove was taller than me and the thistle was as big as Zara!

There were a lot of broken empty egg shells lying everywhere as well.

We checked out all the dens from last year but not much left of them so we built a new one, it was great fun.  I then found a big bouncy branch low to the ground that we could sit on and bounce so I called it a swing saw.  The ground  was quite dry when we arrived but by the time we left it was very muddy and we went home very dirty. 😃

 

 

I have taken a couple more photos of the swallow chicks.  Look how much they have grown!  I think they will fledge soon.