Showing posts with label Holly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holly. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 July 2015

My Amazing New Sweet

One day, I went and visited my uncle. He is my favourite uncle because he works in a chocolate factory. His job is to make exciting new sweets with personality.
Each time I visit him he gives me a new sweet. All I have to do is to try them and say what I think.
This time, he gave me a new sweet, called a Floaty Fizzer. When he put it in my hand, I thought it looked like a normal sweet. It had a dark pink wrapper with the words Floaty Fizzer on it in yellow.
I carefully unwrapped it. It still looked like an ordinary sweet. It was a pale pink rectangular bar with little holes in it that looked like bubbles.
“What does it do?” I asked.
“You just have to wait and see,” he replied.
I put it up to my nose and smelt it. It smelt like sour strawberries. Still normal.
“Taste it, and see what happens,”my uncle said.
 I bit into the bar. At first it was quite hard, but then it became soft after chewing.
It was fizzy and sweet and it tasted like fresh strawberries. On my tongue, I could feel little bubbles.
When I finished the whole bar, I felt myself lifting off the ground.
My uncle said “Quickly! Go inside before you float away!”
But it was too late. I was already in midair!
I had to hold onto the roof to avoid floating away.
“Don’t worry; it will wear off in a minute.” Said my uncle.
It better do!” I said in a weird high-pitched voice.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you that all of the Helium in your body makes you have a weird high pitched voice that makes you sound like a duck.”
Aaaaaah!” I said again weirdly.

1 minute later…

Eventually, I drifted back down to the ground.
“What do you think?” asked my uncle.
“I loved it! It was amazing!”
“Do you want another one?”
NO WAY!!! It was really fun, but I was also terrified.”

What a lovely uncle.

THE END

Sunday, 21 June 2015

Officially Amazing!

Sorry that I haven't done a blog post for a while, but so much has been happening.
For two nights, I went to the African Spirit Game Lodge, and I've seen loads of amazing things.
Here's what happened when I went there.
Within 5 minutes of arriving, we came across a mother cheetah with her cubs, which was amazing. But what was even more amazing, was that the mother had just chased and cornered an injured nyala, and was about to have it for her dinner. Here's a photo.                                                                                                    
Cheetah

























The next day, we woke up really early, so that we could go on our game drive. We left the lodge at 6:30. Although the weather was sunny, it felt quite cold as we rode along in the open top game vehicle, because it is actually the middle of winter in South Africa.
The game drive
We saw 20 giraffes, including a baby :), warthogs, impala, nyala, and even some lions!
Giraffe
Warthogs
female lion
young male lion
We stopped in the middle of the bush and had a drink and some biscuits. I found some animal poo. Can you guess which animal it comes from?
Can you guess which animal made this poo?
We went on another game drive in the afternoon, where we saw rhinoceros and elephants, plus lots more giraffe, warthogs and buck. We tried to drive back along a dried up river bed, but got stuck behind the herd of elephants. They went really slowly and would not hurry up. It got dark and it became quite freaky, because you would never know if something would leap at you from behind, like a leopard, or a pack of lions.
white rhinos
mother  (left) one week old baby (center) teenager (right)
It was when we were driving back to the lodge in the dark, when Mum spotted the caracal.
Our ranger said that they can jump as high as a tree, and they catch birds out of the air.
I found it really beautiful and awesome.
caracal

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Hello from South Africa!

Hi everyone!
I am really REALLY missing you. I can`t stop thinking about you!!!
I've been having a really good time. But we've done lots of flying and driving.
Sunday night, I slept at a friends house. Her name is Simmi.
She has two dogs called Sam and Max, and she's also got two cats called James and Misty. Simmi is seven and she's got two big brothers (Tyler and Michael) and a big sister (Sherae).
Right now I'm at my Grandma's house. On Monday, me and Hayley made mud pies in the garden. I made a camera and Hayley made a family of chameleons. I am going to have lots of fun with my Grandma.
I wish you were here with me. :(/:) Well, look out for my next blog post! Bye!
P.S.
If you want to E-mail me, here you go: holly "at" dougandkerry.net
:)

Sunday, 7 June 2015

Thank you!!!

Friday 5th June 2015

At my laser games party, I had loads of fun, and I just wanted to say thank you to everyone.



Thank you ANABEL for my lego and my little toy!

Thank you GABBY for my skipping rope, my Petanque balls, my glow in the dark 3D stars, and my homemade bracelet!

Thank you NOEMIE for my squinkies!

Thank you ROSE for my 10 euros!

Thank you JAMES S for my minion scooter!

Thank you ALYA for my Romeo cushion!

And finally, thank you
CRISPY
ADITI
JAMES S
NOAH
ALONSO
SAMYAK
ROD
JUSTUS
ANNIE
NOEMIE
MARIE
LUCIA S
and GRACIA, for my lego technic airplane!


Here are some photos from the party:








Monday, 27 April 2015

New York City

I have always wanted to go to NYC.














Did you know that in New York there is a river called the Hudson river that meets the Atlantic ocean? This is what it looks like.


The tallest building in New York is The One World trade center, which is 1,776 feet (541 m).






I find New York very interesting, and that`s why I would really like to go there.





That means, if I go to New York, I can visit other places in America. For example:
The grand canyon
Yellow stone national park
Walt Disney world
Statue of Liberty
Niagara falls
and the white house.

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

My wonderful weekend in Paris

Friday 10th April

I left school early, to go to Paris, as most of you might know.
I`m going to carry on the story of me going to Paris...

After I said goodbye to everyone, I got in the car, and headed off to Paris.
On the way, I saw some Graffiti on the walls, and that gave me some ideas, so I made my own in my little book. Here are some of them:











After the 6 hour drive, me and my family went to find, our hotel, which was just outside Paris.
In the hotel, there were 6 floors. We stayed on the 5th floor, room 522.

Saturday 11th April

In the morning, we went and had our breakfast in the restaurant that was under the hotel.
After that, we went and got my mums race number for her marathon.
Then, we went into Paris and we saw the eiffel tower, and we went on a boat trip along the river, Seinne.


When we finished the boat trip, we went and checked in at our next hotel.

Sunday 12th April

Sunday was the day of my mums marathon. There were 56,000 other people running the marathon as well. After 2 hours, me, my dad, and my sister went up the eiffel tower for the 1st time!

Here are some pictures we took up there:












Finally, my mum finished her marathon! Well done Mum.













Monday 13th April

On Monday, on the way home, we stopped off at Palace De Versaille for a wander around the gardens. Unfortunately, the palace was closed, but we enjoyed the gardens never-the-less.
Here are some photos we took:










Look how small I am compared to the tree!

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Pierre Fermat, Holly, prime numbers and square numbers

Back in January Holly introduced us to an interesting fact about prime numbers and square numbers. This is something that was discovered by a famous mathematician from Toulouse called Pierre Fermat. The green prime numbers circled here can all be made by adding two square numbers together:
Today in 4G we checked this:
And here are all the ones we did:

One little correction...

Sunday, 22 February 2015

The Riddle

In the holidays my Dad told me a riddle, and now you have to figure it out!

Here's the Riddle:

So their is a little village, and in that village, it is against the law to cut your own hair. There are two
Hair dressers, one with scruffy hair, and one with beautiful hair. the one with scruffy hair is called Emerald, and the one with beautiful hair is Ruby.

If you lived in that village, would you go to Emerald, OR Ruby?

The answer is:
Emerald
Because: Ruby gave Emerald the scruffy hair, while Emerald gave a beautiful haircut to Ruby.

Thursday, 5 February 2015

The Blue Macaw

When I was off sick, I watched Rio 2, where the Blue Macaws are under threat due to deforestation. Then I thought that the endangered animal that I could choose was a Blue Macaw.

I also chose it because it is a rainforest animal, and it is a very rare bird.

Monday, 26 January 2015

What Am I?

A water-lover
A baby-protector
A meat-eater
A loud-roarer
A grass-creeper
A colourful-creature
A milk-appriciater
A frindship-maker
An adorable-fighter
A fast-runner
An endangered-animal

Monday, 19 January 2015

More on Holly's post

Holly posted a fantastic post at the weekend about square numbers and prime numbers. If you haven't had a look at it yet, it's really interesting: have a look! Also read the comments.

It's certainly made me, Mr Gregg, think. In 4G today we looked at the numbers Holly's dad had talked about, and used it for our counting circle:
These are all the "four times table plus one" numbers, they are the " 4 times something + 1" that Holly's dad talked to her about.

We looked for prime numbers among these. We used a 100 square, but it would have been better on a hundred-rectangle like this:
All the prime numbers are circled. The ones that we're looking at are the green ones. (It never works with the red primes.)

Then we found that all of them could be made by adding two square numbers.

1    4    9    16    25    36    49     64    81

Can you do it? If you can make any of those green primes by adding two square numbers, write it in the comments below.

Friday, 16 January 2015

Tiger cub

I’m walking through the beautiful
Forest floor,
I hear lots of lovely sounds,
Including my feet, rustling through
The leaves.

I see some very tall trees.
I’m camouflaged in to the grass,
So I cannot be seen.

I feel soft, crunchy leaves,
Under my feet.
Sometimes, I go down to the river,
Often, I see other animals,
Like toucans, monkeys, jaguars, etc.
I always hide under a tree when it rains.

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Number 44

44 is in the 1, 2, 4, 11, 22 and 44 times tables.

44 is NOT an odd number.
44 IS an even number.

44 number sticks and Cuisenaire Rods.

Barack Obama is the 44th president of  USA.

There is a song called "44 blues".



Tuesday, 6 January 2015

England

Two days after Christmas, I went on holiday to England.
It was very busy in the airport, and when we got on the plane, it took quite a long time to take off, but me and Hayley didn't mind, because we were on our i pads.

When we arrived, it was time to hire a car.
Our new car was silver, and what I liked most about it, was that in the middle seat, there was a handle, and you pull it, and the seat comes down, and then inside there is another handle, and you pull that, and it opens, and you can reach into the boot.

My two favourite things that we did in England, were
going to the amazing Peter Pan Pantomime, and going to the cinema to watch Paddington. Here is a picture of Paddington bear:
We met lots of friends, and I had an awesome time!

When we arrived, back in France, 3rd January, we had a rest at home.
The next day, I went to Gabby's house, and we did a lot of roller blading, and one time, I was taking a video of Gabby on her roller blades, and suddenly Gabby fell over, and her bum got all wet! It looked like she had had an accident in her pants!

Here's a trailer:

Sunday, 14 December 2014

My favourite snowflake

This is my favourite Snowflake that I have made:

It has been so much fun making these snowflakes!