Holywood Hullabaloo

Today I get to work on Sumdog & Epic in the sun

Good morning everybody, today is my birthday and I am very excited. Mum and dad got me a big trampoline for the garden so I am just going to go out and help my dad build it. I will post later with the finished job. Have a good day everybody.

Hi there
Rory here.
We went into the garden to have a look at plants and talked about what is a flowering and non-flowering plant. Here is an example of a flowering plant from our garden.

Here is an example of a non-flowering plant from our garden.

We then talked about the parts of a plant. I got my big outdoor chalks and drew a diagram outside with the labels.

Bye for now.
Rory.

I have some swallows nesting in Millie’s stable.  They nest there every year and this one is no exception.  I am pretty sure that some eggs have been laid in the nest as the swallows have been sitting in it but I haven’t managed to get a photo of them doing that.  This is the nest and I’ll keep you posted on what happens.  Mrs. Madden.

Hi all, Caspian is back.

Today I have been doing research on France and Spain, and also writing down numbers and colours in both languages. I have also done my usual maths, spelling and reading. I have put some time in on Sumdog, 49 questions and got them all right. My new book for reading is Goosebumps, Return of the Mummy by R L Stine. Last night mum made butterfly buns which I called buttered fly cakes! I ate five of them and now I feel a bit like I’m having a slow sugar rush!! 🕷🍰

 

I forgot all about my blog yesterday, sorry.

Today I learnt how to write alliteration. It is when two words start with the same letter or sound. Like, three cat cushions. Then I did French and Spanish colours and numbers. I also found out some facts about France. I am still reading about Whizz Bang Winnie with mummy. I an using this book to copy out sections to help my handwriting and spelling.

Byeee, see you tomorrow love Tanith x 🐩

 

Machine gunners is a book about the world war. A boy called Chas finds an aircraft in a forest. There is a dead German guy and he has a machine gun so Chas and his friends pick it up and make a den to keep it safe. They also try to hide it from the adults. Chas was the second best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth. I really enjoyed the book, it was also really interesting. Hope you enjoyed my blog bye. Take care. By Orla.

Sorry I meant to add about the zip wire challenge . We were able to make a zip wire from the upstairs bedroom window down to the tree in the garden , it took us a while to work out the best and safest way to construct it . We used washing line with the smooth plastic coating on , we found a chain that we use for our hanging basket to hold whatever would be going down the zip wire (teddys and garden gnome) as it had 3 clips to hold in place , we then used shackle as the pully as it had a small wheel on it . I found that the heavier the teddy the faster it went but it weighed the rope down more (gravity), the lighter the teddy the slower it went but no weighing down . It was good fun , a few car’s stopped to ask what we were doing , I’m not sure what they first thought 🙈
The window size rainbow picture we made because our house sits so far back off the road with tree’s in the way so my mum and I decided to do this one together to show our support .Merrisa x

Today’s blog is no where near as cool as yesterdays but I’m doing well in the sumdog challenge and today I did about 500 questions today and had a read next to a fire I lit. I also did some spelling workout.

By charlie

Hi everyone , we are keeping busy and safe . I am still continuing on with my school work , maths , English , reading , spelling etc . Here are some of the thing’s we have been doing along with my usual work and the big Thursday day’s. 

I love drawing Manga , I have a lot of book’s which helps with creating the correct way to Draw the faces. I prefer to not colour my manga portraits as I feel that it be more animation manga rather than sketching manga. I enjoyed re creating a Van gogh painting , I love the way the colours blend in , it makes it look like the painting is alive . We hace veen doing alot of baking , something I enjoy doing with my Mum , we made Empire biscuits , banana loaf, shortbread angels and cinnamon rolls . Thing’s always taste better home made . On our walks we see alot of nature , we have a stunning loch 2 mins from us . The loch has alot of swan , geese and ducks on and other types of birds , sometimes we like to just take 5 mins from our walk to enjoy our surroundings.  We find alot of other thing’s on our walks , wee broken bits of newly hatched chick eggs  , caterpillars , all sorts of birds , weasels , fox etc etc The best thing about living in the countryside is the nature , the bad thing about it is my cat’s catching the bird’s,  the poor wee swallow  in the photo was rescued .  We have been spending cosy night’s around the fire while star gazing and looking for satellites. I have also been going on BBC bite size and doing some work from there . I decided to have a go making a model plant cell , this was very interesting , I learnt a little bit about how plant cells and animal cells have certain features in common such as thr mitochondria , membrane,  nucleus and cytoplasm . Plants cells also have a permanent vacuole . In the photo’s you will see a plastic tub (This acts as the cell wall) with water,  one grape(acting as the nucleus which contains the cells  genetic material) , handful of peas (acting as the chloroplast. These are where photosynthesis takes place) , water filled plastic bag ( with the water acting as the vacuole ) and a small amount green food colouring. The photo of the pea on its own is photosynthesis taking place . We have been doing alot of gardening so decided to give our poor garden gnomes a wee makeover , we painted 6 in total , how cool do they look 🙂 . Stay safe everyone from Merrisa.