Night Mail

Here's 5G performing Night Mail by W H Auden::



You can see the original poem in the Night Mail film here:

Recipe books

We've been busy cooking, eating and packaging biscuits. Here are our recipe books:

My Story: No Way Back

My story it is quite sad but not that sad. It is a really good story and it turns out to be quite happy. It is a long journey on a boat out in the deep sea to New South Wales.

New South Wales, is a place that they are getting transported to. It is a jungle with lots of animals that have been sent for food resources for the people, so that the people can live there without starving. The people that got transported are the people that got sent from jail and that’s the place where they will live forever. I guess it’s one type of punishment because before there were sentenced to death, so to live somewhere else forever the rest of your life is better than never knowing what your life would have lead on to be.

After being there for so long she got married to someone from New South Wales but then he had to go to war and he died. Then she was very sad because she had four kids as well to look after on her own. When she found out he was dead she found someone else and they got married and he also had four kids so they had to look after twelve kids. That must be hard work, very hard work. She was very happy till he died so she was alone with 12 kids to look after. Her second husband died of old age.

She did not have a very good life in my opinion but she died at a really old age of at least 90 years old.  Her children had grown up to be a kind and caring people which is a very good thing and I think she was very proud of them.

This book is probably best for people that are 9 to 13. The best book I have ever read!

national geographic kids almanac 2013

This book is not a story book it is a book that is funny and got informatshion. It has lots of diffident supjests like awsome adventure animals and fun and games.  Most of the facts I had no idea about, like a fact that said that mites live in your eyebrows and that horses lock there legs round each other so they don't fall over.  Some Animals sleep standing up like a horse and many other animals.  It has many games like mazes. This book is full of facts, adventures and games.📚

The Isle of the Dead

Here's our book inspired by our reading of Odysseus, and Arnold Böcklin's painting The Isle of the Dead:

How much do you know about he Odyssey? Test you basic knowledge with a quick quiz of eleven easy questions: Click here

Insula Dulcamara

Here is our book of 100 word challenges on the theme of Insula Dulcamara:

Mythological Creatures

After meeting various mythological creatures in the book Odysseus, we created some of them ourselves. Have a look through our book (click on the image to expand the book, and then on the arrows to turn the pages. Click Escape to minimise it again):

My story No way back

No way back is a very good book. The oldest daughter always steals because they do not have any food.  She is always at home and she is only aloud out at the week ends  but not for very long.  She is a nice girl but steeling is her habit.  Her mum had a bible which she had to give away to get some money. Her mum was really sad so the oldest daughter tried to get it back.

It is a bit sad but not so sad that it will make you cry.  It is about a big family and they are poor. The oldest one got sent to jail and it was not a very nice jail.

I love this book. I never want to put it down. It is set in about 1979 and it is set in Paris. In jail she and her friend are sentenced to death.

I haven't finished but I am going to guess what happens: She gets out of jail, but her family are gone. It might be a happy ending - I do not know.
 no way back here is a link to the my story web.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel

Diary of a Wimpy Kid are all good books the whole series but the new one is the best it is very funny. Diary of a Wimpy Kid makes me want to read a lot more books because they are funny and amusing.I definitely recommend this book to you.

Here is a video of Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books talking about how he began writing these books.

When he was a kid he liked Calvin and Hobbes cartoons a lot.

And here's the trailer for the book:

My Brother's Famous Bottom

This book is about to two twin brothers about two years old they are called Tomato and cheese and they had an older brother about eight years old. The story is about their and the grumpy old nextdoor neighbor. The family do not get on with their nextdoor neighbor. The family made a mini farm in there garden it is very weird. The nextdoor neighbor is not so keen on the mini farm and always comes over to complain, he always gets a red face when they get in a argument with the family they are worst enemies. It is called my Brothers famous bottom because Cheese one of the twins that got caught wearing no nappy by news reporters.  They thought it was a nice bottom so they used it in an advert and it became famous.

I was a Rat

Let me introduce you to a boy called Roger he is a very poor boy and he has no  mother or father. We think he lives in a seller all on his own with no one to speak with, no one to be with he was all anlone. He had no manners because in his early life he never learnt anything from his parents, for his life in the future. He was called a rat boy by the people in his villige. He eats very weird stuff like pencils because he has never eaten real food before. But he does get very well looked after now by his new parents and gets fed real food. Some times the book turns into a mystery. He has a very nasty Doctor who takes him away from his home which is one of the mysteries for his new Mum and Dad.

In the end it turned out happy and he had a normal life and he went to school but he still ate all of the pencils and he got very told off he had to go to the head teacher and Roger got a whipping with a cane and he had a red mark down his back. He hated school from then on because he always got told off because he did no work, because he didn't know how to so he got put down to year 1 and he is 7 or 8 years old. He never wanted to come back to school ever again. Even though he did not want to he gave it one last go and he was actually learning and he started to like school but of course he still ate pencils. Luckily his new teacher is a lot kinder and softer.