Covid-19

Covid-19 is a new illness that affects your lungs and air ways. It's a virus that has spread all around the world. The symptoms are similar to if you had the flu or a cold. At the moment, all over the world, over 590,000 people have covid-19 and there are 27,367 people dead.

Covid-19 also affects me, for one we have bad internet connection here and as most schools have shut down thousands of kids will go on internet, so it has gone from bad to terrible. Me and my sister have been limited to 2-3 hours on the internet by my Nan because she needs to work.

Nanny has had to close her online shop because she can't guarantee that the things she's sold will get to the people who have bought them because of so many people being sick and self isolating so we won't have as much income.

I think people are being stupid though I saw some of it on the 11th when I went shopping, everyone was panic buying things like bread, meat, bottles of water and toilet roll like they were going to die of hunger, also I don't get why people are buying bottled water when there is water in the tap drink that instead of wasting money on something that is killing the earth.

We have made more recipes or altered our usual recipes to make them go further we don't have as much food as we normally do. Nanny is hoping to only go out once a fortnight but we probably will have to go out more for milk because most shops are limiting you to one carton per visit.

Some people are going out like nothing matters and are letting there kids walk around the streets this actually proves that some people don't care that they could be spreading the virus and potentially killing others. They are being selfish and are a risk to other peoples health.

Coastal Landfill

I think we can all agree that the sea is becoming more and more polluted every day.
So much so that there's now plastic pebbles floating in the sea and the beaches are covered in rubbish like plastic bottles and tin cans.

Some of this is down to the 1200 or so coastal landfills in the UK that are at risk from erosion.
Some are already spilling tonnes of waste into the sea leading to a pollution time bomb around the UK coastline.

Powerful storms and rising sea levels mean once-hidden waste could be exposed to pollute oceans and beaches, according to coastal policy expert Mark Stratton.

"One of the biggest risks of doing nothing at these sites is that the defences will fail and you’ll potentially have former landfill either eroding out onto the foreshore or leaching into the water. Alongside that there’s a potential impact on human health depending on what’s in the sites" he said.


Landfill sites before the 1990s had basically no restrictions about what rubbish could be dumped in them, therefore not a lot is known about what they contain so it can be very dangerous.

Many landfill sites were on the coast and some were used to raise land levels and even as part of flood defences, but as climate change is bringing higher sea levels and stronger storms the flood defences are weakening and in some cases bursting.

There's probably over 77,000 tonnes of waste in all those landfill sites combined. Leaking landfills may also be the source of the bizarre plastic pebbles that are being found on beaches, experts say these lumps of plastic are formed from burnt waste dating back to the 1980s.

Book Review: All The Things That Could Go Wrong By Stewart Foster

Ok so all the things that could go wrong is a great book. It is about
two boys, one called Alex and one called Dan here's a little preview of the book.

Dan is angry. Nothing has been the same since his big brother left and he's taking it out on the nearest and weakest target: Alex.

Alex is struggling. His O.C.D. makes it hard for him to leve the house, especially when Dan and his gang are waiting to get him at school.

Then the boys' mums arrange for them to meet up and  finish biulding a raft that Dan had started with his brother. The two enemies stuck together for the whole of the school holidays- what could go wrong?

ok so I'll give that a ...



for being so good and giving me a view of what being bullied feels like.

Book Review: Blitzcat by Robert Westall 📖

Blitzcat by Robert Westall is a great book. As soon as I started reading I was absorbed ( that could be because I'm a bookworm though ). Any way I'll tell you a bit about the book.  Ok to start of with its about a cat called Lord Gort who tries to find her old master. By travelling many miles and  having many new masters she succeeds in her goal.

But her old master didn't recognise her which made me cry a little bit at the end. Over all its a good book and if you like emotional stories this book is for you. I give this book ...

rose theatre: Hamlet

yesterday we went to Shakespeares rose theatre, which much to our surprise, opened again. you can see my older post by clicking here .

ok so hamlet is the play we saw. we also went to Cliffords tower were me and abbie fought to the death (well almost).

My Birthday 🎁

Nikki's cake

Abbie's cake

         Today is my eleventh birthday here's how it started. I woke up had breakfast and then opened some pressies. The first thing I got was a designabear and it is called cupcake, and the second thing was some books by R J Anderson I've got the first two books of one series and one of another.  I then saw Abbies unicorn cake and it looked grate.

Then grandad went to cut down my cabin bed so it was normal bed but part of a present was that grandad put up a wall TV in my room  he also rearrange things. Later my friend came around as well as some of her family  they must have had seven presents including: a pare of unicorn pyjamas, a Rubik cube, sparkle creation, a orange spiky squeaky ball and colour your own messenger bag. Then I saw my friends cake. It's very good here are some pictures

The Rose Theatre

The Rose was built in 1587 by Philip Henslowe and a grocer named John Cholmley. It was the first purpose-built playhouse to ever stage a production of any of Shakespeare's plays. The theatre was built on a messuage called the "Little Rose," which Henslowe had leased from the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark in 1585.

The Rose was the first of several theatres to be situated in Bankside, Southwark near the south shore of the River Thames. The area was known for its leisure attractions such as bear/bull-baitings, gaming dens and brothels. It was located in the Liberty of Clink, a liberty outside the jurisdiction of the City of London's civic authorities.

The Rose contained substantial rose gardens and two buildings; Cholmley used one as a storehouse but I don't know what Henslowe used his for. North of London, professional playhouses like the Curtain Theatre and The Theatre had already been open for over a decade.

In York they have built a replica of the rose theatre and that is were me, Abbie and nanny went yesterday. The play we saw  is called a midsummer nights dream and it is very good in my opinion  it made me laugh and the fairy's were dressed up as trees. They were doing things like one fairy took someones bag and dumped it in front of the person it belonged to.  I don't think abbie liked it though because she was hardly looking at it.The theatre is like a pop up one  but more impressive  especially on the inside  but sadly after the second of september it will be taken down as it was only open for ten weeks. 

Camera Project 4

Today I did camera project 4 it is called "one object, five ways", you've got to choose a colourful object and photograph it five ways, I chose my bike and I got pictures of the handle bars, the wheel, the seat, the sprocket and a side view of the bike itself. What will your object be?

  

Clumber Park

On Monday we went to Clumber Park with my sister my friend and my friends mum and brother. At Clumber Park we had a picnic and there were greylag geese and they wanted our food. There was also a young squirrel who took some of my sandwich I gave my friends brother some of my sandwich to give to the squirrel after that we went to a woodland play area and me and my friends brother blew
bubbles and saw who could blow the biggest bubble.We went on a boat that had information on like when the river is low you can see the remains of a old boat that sank.

 We went on a brige that has been wrecked because some one drove back and forth and wrecked the brige there were lodes of notes saying things like we hope it is rebuilt soon and that kind of thing.
Clumber park brige is over 250 years old though

A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah lean

I got A Dog Called Homeless from my public library and it is the  longest book I have read.

This is how the story starts, My name is Cally Louise Fisher and I have not spoken for thirty-one days. Talking doesn't always make things happen,however much you want it to. think of the rain; it just happens when it happens. when the clouds are ready, when they're full, they drop the water. It's not magic; it's just putting something back where it belongs. 

Cally can see her mum who has been dead for a year but no on believes her so she stops talking. she sees her mum with a wolf hound and a tramp called Jed in the end it turned out that the wolf hound was a gift to cally from her mum and Jed looked after the dog and was trying to find Cally     

 I think it is lovely book and the best one yet I think it would be for 8 up and give it 5 out of 5

my dog likes reading it to

Bug Handling

On Monday we went to Animal Ark to learn about and handle bugs I did not handle that much I held a Millipede  that was all.  Abbiegail  held a Millipede, a snail, a cricket,
a stick insect  and a  tarantula

At Animal Ark we saw some snakes and some snake skin  here is some info about snakes .Snakes are long legless lizards  that eat other animals such as rodents, birds, eggs, fish, frogs, lizards and small mammals .
There are lodes of types of snakes including  the black mamba  the green mamba the boa family
the back mambas are venomous snakes were as a boa would strangl you and eat you hole 😊

No Hunting

I think all hunting should be band because it is cruel it is endangering animals like  the rhino its being killed  for its horn the same with elephants but there being killed  for there tusks and is that fare  no it is not fare because in a few years thay mite  be extinct😬

 And I think people should stop cutting down trees because it is destroying monkey's home's 🐒 . And  killing tigers and leopards for there fur 🐅🐆.

Photo from speakupforthevoiceless.org

  

tiger 🐅

 leopard 🐆

Infestation Of Ladybirds

We have a infestation of ladybirds in our back garden one of our conifers is coverd  . The  ladybirds are the beetle of the family coccinellidae, generally have red black or yellow with black ,red or white spots  

 ladybirds 

Autumn At Shirebrook valley

skeleton leaf

skeleton leaf

On Monday we went to  shirebrook valley. We named trees and learnt how leaves decay .Leaves decay  by bugs like  slugs and snails eat the leaves and make a skeleton leaf                      

me digging

today we went to the park and played then we walked around  the lake I picked some black berries and we gave them to the chickens ( except the ones I ate)

me and my sister 

First Day Of Autumn

  The first day of autumn is rely exiting because it means we are near to Christmas yay!   it is  warm here at the moment but we don,t mind  because it was raining in summer autumn
 is the third season of the year it  marks that summer is finished  and winter has begun  autumn last 89 days which is 3 months it also means that it will be Halloween soon .Halloween is on 31 of October I am looking forward to Halloween this year

My First Stem Session

a compel of days ago  I went to a stem session and made goo and learnt about polymers  I made a new friend called Kara  we lit a 20  pond note on fire it burst in to  flames and there were no ashes then we made goo my one is green with red glitter

HOW TO MAKE SLIME (GOO).

1. put 6 spoons of glue in

 2 put 5 spoons of  food  colouring in

 3. mix for 10 minis and add some borax in be tween 

me and Kara built a Tran station it was so big I built the Tran and put a person in it Kara built the  station .  I like my new friend .we put a tablet into water and the water trend ed and and we put salt in water and it just  sank to  the bottom then we put  a orby in a glass cup and it got bigger

Polymers are very large molecules made when many smaller molecules join together, end to end          the smaller molecules are called monomers in general ; lots of  monomers  molecules a polymers molecule. the  polymers formed are called addition  polymers.

Wednesday Group

Last   wednesday I went  to wendsday group with Nicky and her sister Alicia and her brother Luke and me .

In wednesday  group I made a mothers day card and played Mincraft ,pool ,table tennis and a ipad here are some  pictures .

me macing my card 

after I made my card