Tower of Pisa. Leaning thoughts.

Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean? I'm sure you are all wondering why. Write what you think as a comment and when you all have I will put the answer in. Don't cheat!

Callum's Amazing Language Lesson

Here is a quick wee lesson on Italian from me

Me and the pigeons

In Venice we went exploring walking down twisting turns and not always knowing where we were going. We. Went to the basilica where people prayed. On the way into Venice we saw a big canoe and we saw a lot of pigeons. Lucky we had nutella sandwichs because they flew on me.

The Quarter History of Venice

Venice is not what you think. It isn't built on water, it is built on islands of mud. But of course the people didn't make them. Before Venice was built there were 116 islands and the first people who got there were fleeing Huns who were invading Rome. The people built on the islands using wooden pylons.

Venice got very rich by using ships to trade things that others wanted and they had. They were good at making and sailing ships which is what you would think, because it is a city almost built on water. Then they started losing money because Portugal had stuff that they had sailed to different countries for.

Venice is today is now a place for tourists coming and going. Its like a playground for tourists and only 60000 people live here which surprises me, because I thought Venice would be bigger than Christchurch.

Ireland

I thought Ireland was cool . It had lots of green grass, hills and it rained often. In the towns all the houses were stacked together.

The favourite thing I did in Ireland was going to the zoo. I liked seeing the tiger up close it was so close it licked the window.

We went to Dublin, Athlone and Galway.

I learnt that the Irish have two languages. Irish and English

Amazing LegoLand

The mummiest facts

 We went to the British Museum today. Lots of mummies!

A day out at Portsmouth

At the place called Portsmouth they had lots of old ships. We went on a tour of the port. We saw navy boats and my favourite navy boat was a Cargo ship on the tour, but my favourite boat of them all was the HMS Victory. The captain was Admiral Nelson. He was shot in the spine and he didn't want to be buried at sea so they pickled him in alcohol and once they got home in memorial they drank the alcohol that his body had been soaking in. The HMS Victory fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

The Plane

To get to London first we had to get to Hong Kong which took 11 hours. When we were going to London it took 12 hours and we had little screens in front of as we had movies and games and tv, but also a moving map which showed were the plane was.

I spent same time doing games my favourite game was invaders it was a space game I had to destroy the aliens. I won eventually but it was hard.

Callum's super birthday

The leap of faith I did was so freke. So freke I felt like I was going to 

pass out. when I did the jungle climb i went straight to the top it was so fun.

Lego building bricks

I was wondering how Lego was made of so i went online and it was made of a type of plastic.

Home Learning: The Rocket Part Two

Home Learning Rockets

This rocket is going to be my first home learning challenge. It will be cool.

materiasl.

• tissue box.
• cardboard.
• tooth paste pack.
• coke bottles
• porridge box.

The V8 Super Car

At the v8 supercars we saw some amazing v8s we even saw Greg Murphy's car. When they did the qualifying the cars went really fast my favourite bit was the drifters they made lots and lots of smoke and I mean lots.