Author: Joseph

Hello Everybody,

This week I have been learning about one of my favourite places in the world, Australia! My favourite thing about Australia is the wildlife. Did you know that Australia has lots if unique types of animals. Including marsupials (marsupials are mammals that keep there babies in pouches) they are also the only country in the world to have mammals that lay eggs (like the duck billed platypus and the echidna). Did you know that Platypus are one of the few mammals  that  are  venomous? Males produce a venom from a stir on their back legs.

his a picture of a koala I did.

I have also been learning about the great barrier reef! Did you know that its the biggest coral reef in the world, it is two times bigger than the next biggest coral reef! I did the full David Attenborough great barrier reef tour on line and found out a lot, it is really good. Here are some pictures of some of the creatures that live on the great barrier reef. I’d like to learn to scuba dive so I could explore the reef in person.

I have ordered some Australian biscuits when they arrive I will show you how to do a tim tam slam.

see you Joe

Hi Everyone

How are you doing? Hope you are well. Yesterday night I made ice cream with my mum and dad, it was lovely we made our own type. It’s called Ambrosia ice cream Sunday(Ambrosia is the immortal honey and fruit/food of the gods in greek mythology) , it’s called that because its got honey and home made honey comb in it. Here is some pictures. See you Joe.

Hi everybody

It is Dakota day! Hi Dakota hope you enjoy High school! Hope you also like my cartoon picture of you.

See you Dakota.

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It’s Merissa day! Hope you enjoy my drawing of you as a cartoon character Merissa. Here it is! 

Good luck for high school.

See you Joe

 

Hi everyone

It’s Daisy day! I know you like manga style art Daisy so I hope you like my manga style you Here it is.

Hope you have a good time at high school.

See you Joe.

Hi Everybody,

Its Charlie day!

I have done a manga style drawing of you. Hope you like it Charlie.

         

I will miss Charlie when he goes to secondary school but I’m sure I will see him out of school. See you later Charlie.

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Hi Everyone

Today I did some Andy Goldsworthy inspired art, for those of you don’t know who Andy Goldsworthy he is a very famous artist who lives in Dumfries and Galloway he uses nature in his art look him up. I really like some of his art its really beautiful, my favourite things of his is his archways made out of sticks and stones they look like a gate way to another dimension. Here is my Andy Goldsworthy inspired art.See you Joe

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

Have I got your attention? If so keep reading, if not why are you reading this? If you are reading this it turns out I have got your attention after all.

Hi everyone,

Today I want to tell you about penguins and science.  The ‘kaboom’ is the sound of your minds being blown!

You know Miss Dale set us that sheet about Charles Darwin and the HMS Beagle? Well, I did one of the tasks to do with that, the one that you had to do a scrap book about your favourite animal. My favourite animals are penguins so I did a poster (I didn’t have a scrap book) about penguins. See what you think.

Next, I was going to tell you about science. Well, I did two of the kitchen science  tasks. I did the witches brew and the lava lamp experiment. They work really well. Hope there are more tasks in the future like it. Here are some videos of the experiments.

 

Is smoke coming out of you nose and ears? Then good because that means your mind has blown!

Bye everyone Joe.

Hi Everyone ,

Today the first thing I did, was to creat an imaginary creature from the literacy tasks, inspired by Darwin’s voyage on the HMS Beagle. I called it a pygmy wolf (pygmy means small) have a look and see what you think.

I have also prepared for my book club with my Nanny this afternoon, and done some maths worksheets.

Here is video of my pygmy wolf (my dog Beans) Dreaming of hunting in the rainforest to make you smile. She inspired my drawing above.