Holywood Hullabaloo

Hi Everybody,

Today I have read the word document about Barnacle Geese,

here are my quiz answers:

1.  They spend the summer in Svalbard.
2. 1,800miles
3.  300 birds.
4.  2kg
5.  Branta leucopsis.
6.  Bear island.
7. 36 hours.
8.  Before climate change geese laid there eggs on the ground on islands now they lay there eggs on cliffs so polar bears don’t get them.
9. 4 Months.
10. By putting coloured darvic rings on some individuals to show how far they fly each year.

By Joe 🦆😀

 

I have been doing  epic and I got the quiz all right.It was about horses.

Holywood   vs   Ny Alesund!!!!!!

We are back and we are doing an IDL arctic project on what is different between Holywood and Ny Alesund.

Holywood and Ny Aselund both have a post office but the only thing that doesn’t look similure is the way it looked and the way it looks now, the difference between Holywood and Ny Aselund is that the houses are made out of wood and the walls here at Holywood are sometimes made out of wood but mainly made out of stone or brick. Another difference  is that they have an arctic research station. If the arctic was here would we have an arctic research station?  the climate here is usually -1 but here but the climate there in February and march is normally -9 to -16, April is -6 to -13, may is 0 to -5. At Ny Aselund, in summer the sun never sets and in winter the sun never rises. When you are looking at some of the pictures they look fabulous and the landscape they have is stunning, the view, looking out a window into the mountains is amazing. Holywood landscape is in the middle for me and the view in some places, not really good some other may be amazing you might take a picture. Which place do you prefer? Which place would you stay?

by Oliver

 

Hi all, Caspian here!

Today I did some facts about woodpeckers and a business card for the play Julius Caesar. I also highlighted in my book how I would like t change the story. I decided to make Julius listen to his wife and not go out to get murdered. Also I did some woodpecker facts and here they are!

1. They have strong bills for pecking out nests in trees.
2. They have very long tongues.
3. Their brain is small to avoid brain damage from pecking.
4. Woodpecker skulls inspired bike helmets.
5. They can peck 30 times per second.
6. They close their eyes when pecking to avoid debris.
7. Their nose is specially designed to avoid debris getting in it.
8. They cannot be found in Australia.
9. The imperial woodpecker is extinct.
10. 32 woodpecker species are found in India.
11. I saw a red crested woodpecker in the woods.

I also have some more god facts for you!

1. Apollo was the god of music, light and healing.
2. Aurora was the goddess of the dawn.
3. Bellona was the goddess of war.
4. Cupid was the god of love.
5. Vulcan was the god of fire and blacksmiths.

Rom-Halan! (Vulcan for goodbye) I am running out of aliens to translate. This is very bad.

Hello its me Tanith,

I am very sorry that I didn’t do a blog yesterday, I fell asleep before I did one. I looked at a lot of holidays in the Arctic and decided to go and see the northern light in a snowcat with my family. I drew a picture of the northern lights and of my family where we are all looking up to the sky. The trip lasted 3 hours and it was magical. We all want to go back to see them again.

Today I have done some spelling and some noughts and crosses with my mama. I have also done some maths in my book and sumdog. We had a lovely walk in the woods when it was snowing. I hope we get hot chocolates tonight.

Love from Tanith xxx

Day 16 of home school learning.  Today i done sum-dog, then i done my Cinderella news report.

In the hub today we have been…

…reading choose your own adventure books

…playing games to practise our spelling

…writing wee books about a party like in Prince Cinders

…getting to grips with some new algebra

-colouring by numbers

…trying to complete a sudoku (tricky!)

…starting a goose lantern

…researching climate change in the arctic

…making goose hats and wings

We hope you have all had a fun and busy day too!