Holywood Hullabaloo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello,

Today I designed a Halloween costume for a magic girl. I drew it in my exercise book and labelled all the types of fabric used and all the magic powers. I also designed a mask to go with it. For literacy, I wrote a spell. I hope you like it.

Some drool of a wolf, a purr of a cat,

A look of a doll, a fallen crow’s feather,

A sneeze of a fox, a step from a horse,

A bee in a flower, the hug of a golden child,

Stirring widdershins, for the call of a unicorn.

Be happy and smile every day, love from Tanith xxx

Hi all, Caspian is back.

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)

Hello,

I did my reading and writing today. I read Snow Time by Molly Brett. It is about the woodland animals having fun in the snow. I answered some questions to check I understood the story then I copied out two paragraphs to practice my handwriting. I found my maths a bit tricky today but mummy helped me by showing me ways to help me get the right answers. My Halloween lesson was all about spiders. These are the things I found out.

1. A spider has 8 legs.
2. Spiders have two body parts.
3. Some spiders can bite.
4. Some spiders spin a web.
5. All spiders make silk.
6. Most spiders have 8 eyes.
7. Spiders do not have wings.
8. Spiders eat insects.
9. Spiders have blue blood.
10. Spiders lay eggs.

Stay safe, be happy and smile every day, love from Tanith xxx

Hi all, Caspian and Tanith are back!

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!