Author: Caspian

Hi all, Caspian is back!

Today I have been learning about forces – push, pull and twist. I applied it to five objects in the house and compiled my results in a table. I found this really interesting and will continue with it tomorrow when I am going to create a stop motion. I have also been doing some maths and for literacy, I wrote down everything I saw in a picture I built on WW1 trench warfare. It is hard to type as Ludo keeps putting his paw on my cheek!

See ya!

Hi all, Caspian is back. Today I have been doing a book review on a book called Black Ships Before Troy, written by Rosemary Sutcliffe. The book is all about the fall of Troy in Ancient Greece. I was surprised by the story line because it was very dramatic throughout. I really enjoyed it. My favourite character is Eris, the one who sends the golden apple in the first place to Earth. The illustrations really work well with the story. 5*!

After classes, we went on a walk through the woods opposite to the park and my dog claimed it as her territory so no trespassing!!!! Mum also made some “Oak Royales” as she calls them.

That is the main list of what I did today so,

DaH jlmej!

(That is Klingon from Star Trek)

Hi all, Caspian is back from baking my first loaf of bread all on my own!

Today I also did some maths and some vocabulary. I had to write down the instructions for the bread. Here they are:

Ingredients:

500g of bread flour

15g butter

1x yeast sachet

1 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

300ml tepid water

1. Weigh 500g of bread flour and put it into the bowl.
2. Weigh 15g of Stork butter and put it into the bowl.
3. Make sure that there are no big chunks of butter in the bowl.
4. Add a packet of yeast, and a teaspoon of salt, and one of sugar.
5. Make a well (a hole in the middle of the mixture.)
6. Pour 300ml of tepid water into the well.
7. Mix well.
8. Knead the dough.
9. Let the dough prove by putting it into the bowl and putting a damp teatowel over the bowl.
10. After the first prove, beat all the air out of the dough and roll it back. Repeat for 5 minutes.
11. Let the dough prove again.
12. Put the bread on the top tray in the oven and set it to 200 degrees centigrade.
13. Check to see if the bread is hollow. If it is, complete step 14.
14. Let it cool for 15 minutes.
15. Enjoy!

Another foreign goodbye, Adiòs!

Hi all, Caspian is back.

Today I found out 10 facts about George Stephenson:

1.He built the first railway in the world.

1. He built the Miner Safety Lamp. It didn’t explode like previous lamps.

2. He was born on the 9th of June 1781…

3. …And died on the 12th of August 1848, aged 67.

4. His train was called The Rocket.

5. His children were Robert and Francis Stephenson.

7.His second child Francis, died when she was a few months old.

1. He has a bridge named after him.

9.He opened the Liverpool and Manchester railway.

1. He was originally a miner, that is why his first marriage proposal was turned down by the father of his first love.

Those are the 10 facts about George Stephenson and his family.

Also Tanith made a lovely cake and did not at all bother to help Mum and I do the washing, drying and putting away.

Au revoir!

Pic of my poster for Miss B-D.

Hi all, Caspian is back. I know I already made a blog today but I wanted to write one about my findings of utter disgustingness. I found two cans of alcohol, both not even finished before thrown away. Whoever it was…ANIMALS DON’T LIKE TO GET DRUNK!!!!!!!!! I also found two bottles of Weetabix’s Get Up And Go. The one tiny bit better than the alcohol was they were empty, but that doesn’t make it better than littering in the first place. I found a smoking packet and some plastic bags. Whoever littered around the road by the Old School Cottages and the road to the railway station…I’ll send an army of Cybermen for you on the 11th of October 2020.

Toodle-oo!

 

Hi all, Caspian is back!

Thankfully this time I didn’t make you wait for 6000 years! Today I have been doing an acrostic poem about evacuees about how they felt during the Second World War. I have created a poster about my favourite place, Silloth – go there after the pandemic, you won’t be disappointed. I also did some more business studies. I wrote down ten reasons why dog toys are good for business and why I have chosen to set up my business selling them. I finished off by doing some decimal work.

Endangered

Very scared

Anxious

Country

USA are allies

Excited

Evacuated

I’m off to do some Sumdog now.

See ya!

Hi all, Caspian is back after a very long time,

The reason I have not been blogging for a long time is because I have been doing long walks, picking berries and trying to get on the leader boards of the Sumdog challenge. Currently I am at 459 questions left and have been decorating my house. In the comments could some of you write down your friend codes because I have a VERY valuable item worth 4230 coins(It is the golden Sumdog). I have got to the Indian Elephant rank and have 2780 coins left before I become an Okapi.

Mum made 30 more jam jars and Tanith gave some of her “Star Jelly” to Erin for testing and in return we got some delicious cup cakes. Me and Tanith have formed a big relationship between ourselves and the lego. I have made an extremely big spaceship. I would like to put a picture of it up but…I dropped it and will rebuild it.

I have also been continuing my business studies work to decide which item I want to retail in my online shop.

I am making bread on my own this week for home economics lesson and I did some work on the periodic table this morning.

That is all from me today, see ya!.

Hello everyone, Caspian is back!

I haven’t blogged for a while because we have struggled to get online for a few days. So, what have I been doing? Well, we have foraged for more berries, made more jam and eaten loads more berry puddings! As well as my usual classes, I have a new subject called Business Studies. Mum has offered to give me an interest-free loan so I can start my own online business providing I do my research properly. I have highlighted ten areas of interest and I am mind-mapping them out. After this, Mum is going to show me how I drill down further. Mind mapping is really cool because you can list loads of ideas which connect to a main theme.

I saw Miss Dale a few nights ago and we talked for quite a bit. I heard about the bows and arrows which everyone is making. When it stops raining, we are coming up to school to borrow some willow so we can make some of our own.

I have planned in advance for World Book Day and I know what I want to dress up as… a Dalek! I hope the coronavirus has gone by then. I am worried about all the people getting poorly again and wish it hadn’t happened. I have been helping Tanith with her reading. I let her read my Doctor Who twisted fairytales! We are working on a book together about Leo the owl and Rose the cat. She is writing it, I am illustrating it for her.

I drew some Doctor Who pictures the other night. Tanith really liked them so she drew a Slitheen (the Slitheen home world is Raxacoricafallapatorious) and a Sontaran for me (the Sontarans live on Sontar and are factory-produced clones bred for war).

Ludo has finally been told by the vet that his broken pelvis is the best it can be so he is back to jumping and climbing. His eye is also a lot better. Nessaphina had her fur clipped and looks great, especially as she looks like she is wearing winter boots where her fur is a bit longer.

See you later!

PS I will keep updating you about my business studies. I am really enjoying this project at the moment.

 

Hi all, Caspian is back again to write my story I mentioned earlier. Here goes:

The TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) had materialised in Mesolithic Sweden. Rory stepped out first. “So, we’re on Earth, right, Doctor?” Rory asked The Doctor. “I think so, probably not Britain though.” The Doctor replied.

“I wish Amy was here.” Rory whinged at The Doctor. “Well you were the one that wanted a boys night out!” The Doctor pointed out. “Night is coming, get in the cave.” The Doctor told Rory.

“Oh look, a cave painting of a Dalek! How settling(!)” Rory pointed out. “And a Weeping Angel.” The Doctor continued off Rory. “Well, at least its a painting, right?” Rory hoped with glee. ” Even if it was it still would be dangerous.” The Doctor pointed out. “Great we are going to die(!)” Rory said, thinking it was over. “It is over, Rory, or very well could be. If I wasn’t around. I just need to use my sonic screwdriver.” The Doctor said, reading it off his psychic paper. Suddenly, the Dalek came to life! “EXTERMINATE!” It said its war cry with a harsh emotionless robotic voice.

The Dalek shot the Doctor and he started regenerating, a Time Lords way of stopping death, and blasted the aliens through a crack in space and time.

“Rory, we’re leaving.” The newly regenerated Doctor said.

The End

Mum made us a dalek cake today, it was filled with fruit pastilles when the cake was cut open!

My favourite Doctor Who, the eleventh.

Hi all, Caspian is back!

It has been a very busy few days, from maths, to science, to art history, to foraging, to jam making. Phew, I am exhausted!

We have been out twice foraging for berries. It was great to see Miss Dale and some of our friends on our first outing to gather berries for bramble jelly.  Mum found a recipe online to make bramble jelly and one of our friends in the village gave us a load of cooking apples from her tree as she had too many so we had the base for our first batch of jam. Mum helped make it as it got very very hot but Tanith and I helped with prepping the fruit, sterilising the jars, stirring the jam, checking for the wrinkle (the setting point of the lava) and writing the labels. As you can see, the jam is infected with the piggy virus! (Roblox game characters, made by Minitoon, very fun.) Our second foraging at the weekend was for rosehips, sloe berries, hedge berries (yellow but look like raspberries) and damsons. The berries have been put aside for crumbles, pies and more jam but we made the rosehip jelly last night. We are going to have a go at nettle jelly next but I’m going to let Mark, Tanith and Mum pick the nettles while I shout orders!

On Friday, I wrote a Doctor Who story for literacy. Mum got me to choose a location, five Doctor Who references and two things to do with the Mesolithic. I will post my story later.

I also did some research on Leonardo da Vinci (not the mutant ninja turtle). I found out the following:

1. He invented flying machines.
2. He painted the Mona Lisa.
3. He painted the Last Supper of Christ.
4. He painted Vitruvian Man.
5. Da Vinci’s architectural genius is used to this day by other artists and engineers, such as the Vebjorn Sands Da Vinci Project in Norway.
6. His hobbies were painting, sculpting and engineering.
7. His dad was a lawyer and a landlord.
8. His mother was a peasant.
9. He was also a scientist and a geologist.
10. He was illegitimate.
11. His surname is also the name of the town he was raised in.
12. He didn’t receive any formal education.
13. He could play the lyre.
14. He had ten years of art training as an adult.
15. He was ambidextrous so could right and left handed.

Today, I have read up to chapter 22 of Wolf Brother. At the part where Torak tried to kill Wolf for food, I had to skip the few sentences as I cannot bear to think of dead wolves, they are my favourite beast. I also like the fact Wolf calls Torak ‘Tall Tailess’. I have written three letters today. I will be writing some every day. It was really great getting all the letters from everyone.

That’s all folks!!

(The picture below is Vitruvian Man by Da Vinci.)