Downe house - Charles Darwin

Today we went to Downe House in Kent. It was the home of Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was a naturist, scientist and an explorer in the 1800s.

He came up with the Theory of Evolution.

He also found out about the theory of Survival of the fittest and Natural Selection

When he was 22 he sailed on the Beagle for 5 years around the world. He collected bugs, tribal people and animals from his visits.   He studied them and drew them on his books. Then he found out what family they came from and categorised all living things.

He published a book called the Origins of the Species. It took him 20 years to publish it because it had alot of things in it which went against Christianity and their beliefs about God and creation. But he still got yelled at and was hated by many people.

This is a painting of him just before he died. We saw the painting in his house.

Math lesson 4 equivalent fractions

A equivalent fraction is a fraction that is the same as an other but its written differently. Examples are  1/2 and 2/4 are both the same.

This is useful to know do that when your working with fractions you can simplify them.
When you add fractions, you need to simplify them so you can add them. they all need to be the same.

Here is an example of equivalent fractions to half.

England - Geography Report

England is know for fish and chips, the Big Ben and it's long history.

England is located above Europe.

England is 130,395 km² big. It go into Australia 58 times. Can you believe this?

53.5 million people live there. WOW. Thats over twice as many people in England.

In England they speak English. 95% of people speak English as thier first language.  Other languages spoken as a first language here is Welsh 1%, Polish .5%, Punjabi .5%,, Hindi .5%, French 23%. Spanish 8%, German 9%.

In England they have a monarch government. This means that there is a Queen, but she is just a head of state and has no power over the rules in the country.

In England they use pounds as their money. England is in the the EU but keeps its own money.

Englands national animal is a lion.

The other national animal is a unicorn.

This is the official emblem.

Some of the famous people from England are King Henry the 8th. He is famous because he chopped off the heads of his wives because the church wouldn't let him divorce them. He became the head of the church in England let let people divorce their wives. He also took all the churches money away from them.

Queen Victoria is famous because she ruled for over 63 years. She was very cranky because she was very sad because her husband Albert die when he was young. Lots of her kids died too.

In England they have bangers and mash, beef cobbler and bubble and squeak.

Bangers are sausages. Bubble and squeek is left over vegetables that are fried up in the morning.

If you go to England you need to see the Tower of London, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and lego land.

There are lost of old houses and mansions and castles to see in England. The gardens are amazing.

Music lesson 3

Todays music lesson looks at different and wierd musical instruments.
We went to Siegfried's Mechanisches Musikkabinett in Rudeshiem.
Most of the instruments here come from the Black Forest in Germany. 

This is a band in one. This needs electrical power. It has 19 instruments in it.

This is a organ it gets wound on the side and makes very good music. They usually had is monkey to dance and they would get money.

This is a music chair when you wind it up and sit on it... It makes music. I think this is very cool and a very smart idea. 

This is a smokers music box. When others wound up and the button is pushed the six sides come out and they hold things and it play music. I think that they can put things in it other then smokes.

This is a organ grinder and I got to play it. 
You wind a handle around and around to make the organ play.

England Geography Report Draft 1

England is know for fish and chips, the Big Ben and it's long history.

England is located aboth Europe.

England is 130,395 km² big. 

53.5 million people live there. 

In egland they speak English. 

In England they have a monarch government.

In England they use pounds as there money.

Englands national animal is a lion.

In England they have bangers and mash, beef cobbler and bubble and squeak.

If you go to England you need to see the Tower of London, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and lego land.

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Great first draft Morgan.  Things to watch
Capital letters for proper nouns.
Spell the country correctly.

Questions still to answer
What other languages are spoken here?  percentages?
How does England compare in size to Australia? (how many times would it fit in there?)
what famous people come or came from England?  What are they known for?
What are the houses like? What is the plumbing like?

Your opinion  - Isn't it a bit weird that the emblem is a lion?  There is actually another animal - what its it?  Put in the photo of the emblem.

Pictures of the famous places

Extras I'd like to see:
Explain things alittle more - What are bangers?  What is mash?

Grammar lesson 3 - adjectives

Adjectives are describing words.

They are used a lot to make good sentences. Here an example. “The kids played in the park.” Then with adjectives it could be “The daring kids played in the local slide park.” See how it changes how good it makes it so much more exciting?

Maths lesson 3 times tables

Times tables are another essential thing to math. hey are the building blocks and without them, you can't really do maths.

Times tables are use often to work out big answers and hard numbers.

We have to know all of our times tables this year.