Before morning snack, I answered two sheets of mental maths, followed by a walk I wanted to go on. After snack, I wrote a polar bear story called “The Friendly Polar Bear”. Here’s a link to my story: The Friendly Polar Bear After lunch, we started my science project. First, we read about dolphins and … Read more

On Thursday, we finished the second batch of “Rocks, Soils and Fossils”. I wrote about what I think makes the soils different in our woods. The title of my work is Woodland Soils. Here is my work: Woodland Soils Today, we looked at three soils, from our woods. All of the soils were the same, … Read more

On Thursday, I learned how to say “shark”, “dolphin”, “whale”, “crocodile”, “seal” and “beaver” in Chinese. I found a picture of each of the six animals. Then, I wrote the Chinese pinyin for each of them. Here is a video of me saying them in Chinese:

On Thursday, I wrote a piece of work about the honey badger. The title of my piece of work is “The King of Africa”. Here is my piece of work: The King of Africa Today, we are going to talk about the symbiotic relationship between the honey badger and the honey guide. A honey guide … Read more

On Wednesday, we went to see the film Dolittle. I wrote a film review. Here is my film review: The film Dolittle is named after the main character, Dolittle. Dolittle can speak to animals, including dragons! He gets called by Queen Victoria because she’s poorly. Dolittle and his animal friends go on a quest. My … Read more

Maths In maths, I did the Progress Test for: fractions, divisions and multiplications. The test was a bit hard. I was proud to get 45 out of 47! Chinese In Mandarin, I learned how to say: good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Here is a video of how to say the greetings:

On Thursday at the woods, we were sorting out the hazel coppice. I weaved some wood, that mummy cut down, through three trees. I put the wood that couldn’t bend between some trees.

In the last challenge of Course D, on Code, I had to make my own dance party. I had to choose my own song and then sort out my disco background. Next, I put in my main dancers. Afterwards, I programmed the first part of the dance routine, using measures to get it in time … Read more

Here is the recipe for our mince pies: Stir together a pinch of salt and 200 g of self-raising flour Mix in 50 g margarine Add 30 ml of cold water Use a knife to stir a stiff dough Put some flour on a board Put the dough on the board Roll out the dough … Read more

On Code, I completed a harvester challenge puzzle. To complete the challenge puzzle, I had to use conditional blocks. Conditional blocks like “while” ones let you repeat something until you get to the end of a path or pick all of a crop.