Holywood Hullabaloo

Today I made my WANTED poster on the blackboard

from Reece

I photographed some signs of wildlife in my garden today.  I have a bird box and there is a sparrow nesting in it – I have seen it fly in and out but I couldn’t get a photo of it doing that.

 

 

 

 

 

I also found the beginnings of a wasp nest in my pony’s stable – this is only about 3 cm long (I took it down because I don’t really want a wasp nest in the stable).  It’s quite beautiful to look at though and very delicate.  Wasps are predators and prey on other insects – they are important because they keep the numbers of other insects under control.  Mrs. Madden

Today I have done an experiment using lemons to power a clock.

 

We did this from a set, that contained a small digital clock, two sticks of zinc and three pieces of wire. We had to do is chop the lemon in half. Then we had to get two forks and stick them in both lemon halves. Next, we put the zinc sticks in each lemon half and connected the red wire to 1 of the forks and the black wire to 1 of the zinc sticks on the other lemon half then we connected both these wires to the clock. Then we attached the white wire to the remaining zinc stick and fork. Finally, we Sellotaped the wires in place and the clock started working!

So how does it work?

The forks acts like positive electrodes in a battery. They are plated with metal which doesn’t react as much as the zinc does. When the forks and zinc plates are put into the lemon, a chemical reaction happens. Electrons create a negative charge which moves from the zinc plates to the forks to make a current this switching on the clock. Lemon juice helps conducts electricity this can also be done with potatoes and grapefruit.

Here are my pictures of my potato and lemon clock.

by Joe

 

If I had three wishes they would be

1. To be a millionaire so I can help friends and family.
2. Buy a brand-new car that has a lot of diesel so we can travel further to see friends with out filling up the car with diesel.
3. I would also like to own a clay pigeon shooting range so dad and I can go shooting whenever we want.

What would your wishes be?

I will be writing  about why I don’t agree about wearing school uniform

I don’t like wearing the same style clothes every day

I don’t like looking the same as everyone else

I don’t like that school uniform costs a lot

what are your thoughts about uniform?

Hello people. What have you done today? First on my agenda was Spanish. Again I use the app Duolingo. Then I did my reading. I am reading machine gunners. Next I was doing English. Also again I did comprehension about the world wars. After that it was Maths I was doing an assessment. It was in a textbook. Then I did some art. It was fun but I have not finished it. Later my family will be doing the cleaning. I do the living room. Also I will tidy the dinning room. That wraps up today’s blog. Take care people out there reading my blog. By Orla.

Caspian is back from a packed day experimenting with flying bears and empty boxes. The flying bear experiment was where I made a jet pack (empty bottles) and went to a high spot then tried a few times to gauge length of flight. Once I threw it on the roof and it was just luck it flew back down! My other experiment was seeing how many boxes the bike could knock down in one go. I knocked all of them down. It was great fun. Mark created a treasure hunt for Tanith and I while Mum made my cake.  Mark and I also helped Tanith more with riding her bike, she is still struggling to balance. I will see you again tomorrow. 🐺

Hello

I had a lovely day. I made a rocket suit for my teddy and saw how high he could fly. Caspian made the rocket launchers.

I studied ladybirds and found two in my garden. I had a day off from maths today so I could spend a day with nature.

Byeee, Tanith 😘🦄🐞

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Today I started off playing in the garden and colouring in in my tent. After that mum and I looked at french words for numbers. I have been practising saying numbers 1-20 in french. It was funny saying it in french.

Then I was on Sumdog and did adding and takeaway.

I decided to do my reading on Oxford Owl today instead. I like hearing the story then trying to read it myself. I spent ages on the laptop looking at different books. My favourite story was about Horses.