Author: Caspian

Hi all, Caspian is back!

Today I have been researching facts on Guy Fawkes. Here they are:

1. He was not the master of the plot to destroy James I.
2. The plot master was really Roberts Catesky.
3. St. Peters School, in York, were Guy was taught, does not celebrate bonfire night in respect for their former pupil.
4. In Spain’s 80 Years War, Guy was known as Guido Fawkes.
5.  When he was arrested, he gave a false name of John Johnson.
6. He tried to blow up Parliament to, ‘Blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains!’
7. He was tortured for four painful days.
8. He was hung drawn and quartered.
9. He is classed as ‘The 30th Greatest Briton’.
10. After his torture, he signed a confession.
11. There is an island named after him.
12. There is also a Guy Fawkes Inn.
13. There were 36 barrels to be blown up.
14. He was arrested before he lighted the fuse.
15. People build Guy Fawkes effigies to burn.

Also, remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot,

We see no reason why gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot.

I’ve also done some Sumdog today.

See ya tomorrow!

Hi all, Caspian is back!

I forgot to write my blog last night so I will tell you what I did yesterday and today on this blog.

I’ve completed a couple of the school comprehension worksheets and worked through some long division exercises. I have also done some angle estimates, some more perimeter questions and had a refresher on fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.

I asked Mum if she could give me some work on marine biology as I want to be a marine biologist. So she asked me to research a man called Jacques Cousteau. I read through some articles online, found him in one of my encyclopedias and watched a few videos about him. This is the information I found out about him.

1. He lived 11th June 1910 – 25 June 1997.
2. He wrote books to help him get money to fund his marine research.
3. He was captain of the boat Calypso.
4. His middle name was Yves.
5. Unlike Naval tradition, he was buried on land where he lived.
6. He made a film called The Silent World.
7. He worked for the French Navy in World War Two.
8. He invented scuba diving.
9. At summer camp, he cleaned the lake.
10. After a car crash, he swam in the Mediterranean to strengthen his arms.
11. When he crashed, his dreams of becoming a pilot was crushed.
12. He lived for 87 years.
13.  He made a s how called Shipwreck.
14. An Irish millionaire bought the Calypso for Jacques.
15. One of his quotes was, ‘Farming to us is hunting. In the sea, we are barbarians.’
16. He founded the Cousteau Society.
17. One of his movies was called Jacques Cousteau Oddessy.
18. He once appeared on the Tonight Show.

I think he was a brilliant man and I really want to follow in his footsteps.

I also designed a poster about the damage the human race is inflicting upon the oceans.

SOS! Save Our Sea!

If we don’t save our oceans, we will destroy two thirds of all life on earth.

To stop it, you MUST recycle and clean the sea!

Do you want to be known throughout the Universe as the Ocean Killers?

No? Then do as I say!

We hope you are all okay. I am glad we are still shielding as Mum’s breathing is really bad at the moment and speaks to the doctor loads. I read the news with Mum and Mark every day and the pandemic is horrid. We are having a letter writing day tomorrow when we are going to write letters to all our friends and we speak on the phone a lot with our friends. Stay safe people!

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Today I have been doing some things to get ready for Halloween. From what I have heard, Scottish Halloween is not as similar to English Halloween. So basically…I’m glad I get a year to understand.

Anyway I had to design a Halloween costume. I went for the classic Headless Horseman (Without the horse). Then, design a mask. I didn’t go classic this time, I went for a zombie soldier. I tried to think outside the box but all I could think of was Soldier Piggy from Book 1 of piggy. It is a game you can play on Roblox and it is based on Peppa Pig, but made less childish. Anyhoo… I also had to write a poem about Halloween. Here it is:

Halloween,

When ghosts gleam,

Witches fly through the night,

And vampires start a fight,

But they are not real,

They are children,

The doors of houses, fishermen,

The sweets, bait,

The children, fish,

Drawn to each door like magnets on metal,

They grab the sweets.

Run away home,

And hide the sweets as midnight snacks,

That is the story of…

Halloween!!!

Visu labu! Latin for goodbye.

Hi all, Caspian is back!

I have been working on comprehension today – Willaby Castle and the History of Castles. I really like visiting Lowther Castle near Penrith. We haven’t been for ages because of Covid but it is on our bucket list for when we stop shielding. We want to visit the bird sanctuary again as there is a really cool eagle. Last time we went, all of us held a Harris Hawk and fed it.

I have also done some maths. I worked on a speed graph, Venn diagram and finished off with some decimal conversion to fractions.

Finally, I researched spiders. I found a massive spider in our bathroom last night. Mum took it out. It was huge!

1. After mating, Black Widows eat their mates.
2. Black Widows don’t enjoy attacking humans.
3. Most spiders aren’t poisonous.
4. There are 40,000 species of spiders. Yikes!
5. Tarantulas bite as hard as a cat.
6. Spiders can live anywhere except Antarctica.
7. Black Widow venom is 15 times worse than a rattle snake’s venom.
8. Spiders spin different types of web.

If you don’t like spiders, move to Antarctica!

Auf Wiedersehen (German for good bye)

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We are doing a joint blog today as we have done most of our work together as a team. First we had our French lesson. Mum gave us both ten words related to Halloween and asked us to find the word in French. We found some words in French were very similar to the English spellings but others were really different.  For example, zombie = zombi, ghoul=goule, pumpkin=citrouille, broomstick=balai. We did our research by using our English to French dictionary and also watching some programmes online. Tanith was really pleased because she already knew black cat is chat noir as she really loves watching Miraculous Ladybug where Chat Noir is one of the main characters!

We then worked on our maths separately. I worked on area and capacity, Tanith looked at subtraction machines and her times tables.

We finished the day by creating a skeleton from raw pasta!

Meet Bob! Bob the Almighty is the skeleton of an alien warrior race. He comes from the planet Paistametrix. He has one pair of arms where the hands each have three digits – useful when eating chicken wings. He also has one pair of pincers – in life his pincers contained a toxin to spear his prey.  He stands on a pile of bones – the remains of his victims from a few weeks ago! He has six joints in each leg – useful when dancing at the warrior Friday night discos on the neighbouring planets.

We are really enjoying our Halloween themed lessons.

See ya!

 

Hi all, Caspian is back!

I hope you all enjoyed half term. I have done quite a lot today. In comprehension, I answered questions and did some freehand work on River Rescue, toll bridge charges, and the Amazon Basin. I think it is dreadful that people are destroying the rainforest and stealing animals from their natural habitat. I also did some maths – coordinates, decimals to fractions and perimeters. Mum set me a Halloweeny literacy piece of work. I had to write a short story about a witch but from her broomstick’s point of view.  This is my short story.

I am bored, tired and hollow. I am a broomstick. Mistreated by the evil witch. Every time she makes a potion, she draws woodlice that eat me inside out. She knows I am a sentient being and that is why she blames me when I crash. I cannot help it because of the woodlice eating me. I would rather be in a motel!

The end.

Hi all, Caspian is back!

I’ve been quite busy today. First, I read about what it would be like to be the first person to land on Mars. I don’t want to be the first at all! Then I worked through three of the comprehension exercises. I finished the day off with some maths questions. I’m helping Tanith with Sumdog at the moment. Mum made apple pie for pudding tonight which was nice.

До свидания (Russian for good bye.)

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Today I learnt about Sherpa Tenzing and Edmund Hillary and how they reached the summit of Everest. The flag of Nepal, where Everest is situated, is the only flag which is not rectangular in shape. I would like to visit the bronze statue of Edmund Hillary in New Zealand one day as it would be nice to see a statue of such a great man. I hope there is a statue of Sherpa Tenzing also as Edmund Hillary would not have reached the summit without the help of Sherpa Tenzing.

I also did some maths. We went for a walk after lessons so we all got some exercise, our dog included!

Rom-halan (Vulcan for ‘goodbye’)

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Today I have been doing some work on the seasons. We went on a walk to New Bridge to look at the changing landscape now autumn has arrived. Then we did some writing once we got home. I chose to create a four panelled piece about all of the seasons and used both pictures and written facts. Later on I spent some time on a maths website.

See ya!

Hi all Caspian is back.

Today I have made a goodbye card for Mrs. Queen and will deliver it tomorrow. I have also done 2 pages of maths and according to the title, done a stop motion. It is about forces shifting to a living organism war machine then reverting back to it’s natural state.

For tea we had a lovely chicken dinner and finished it off with a lovely jelly and dark chocolate orange. Mmmmm!!!!

Thats all today so,

Dovidenja!!!!!!!

(That is Latin for goodbye!)