July - Wk 2 .... Oxford Story Day, Geology in Beds and Woburn Sands Festival

It was a very busy week!

Oxford
We went to Oxford for a story telling day based around Alice in Wonderland and visited the Story Museum.
The first place we went to was Bodleian library with all of the old and rare copies of Alice in wonderland. There were other books written by C.S Lewis, Tolkein and of course, Lewis Carol .

Then we went to the story museum and got given a leaflet to put stamps in about the authors we learnt about.The authors chose their favourite character from a book and then there was a room on each of the characters.                             

One of the authors' favourite charactors was Till Eulenspiegel who is a German Robin hood type of character. There were many stories written about him but this one was like the Emperors new clothes.

This author was dressed as Hanuam, the Indian monkey God.

















This author Kevin Crossley Holland had chosen Merlin from Merlin.This was probally my favourite as it was magical when I walked down it.

Look how series he is and his book looks so old. He's creepy

This was really cool you chose a costume, wrote a sentence on a board of what you are meant to be,sit on the thrown and then a voice will say what you wrote. I was the naughty princess of the stars and I was dressed as a cow girl.

This was really magical because we stepped through a wardrobe and entered a room that looked like Narnia. It felt like I stepped into the book. I often dream of being in stories or things I have watched I wish it came true.

This was cool,my dad made me scrub the decks because it's TREASURE ISLAND arrrrrrr (read with a pirate accent).

This was Just William. It reminded me and my dad, of the den/shed in Secret Seven and Horrid Henry.

This was a song writing workshop where we wrote a song about a mad hatters tea party.

My Mum had a stall at the local Festival which was brilliant.  I met some HE friends them and went with them for a while, and a lot of ex-sch friends were there too. There were loads of things to do and watch.








Cubs
At cubs this week, I became a sixer. Yey! I am so proud. :-)

  

Home Ed club
My sister and I went to a Home Ed club which we thought would be brilliant. We did some street dance but it was quite easy for us. We did stepping to the side while clapping, jumping while clapping then we played loom bands.

I learnt how to do fish tail in loom bands. I've wanted to learn this for ages.

After that we went to the park and guess what, I got to the top of that. It wasn't the best park in the world but it was good.

This was really fun apart I didn't go on it because I couldn't reach.






















Woburn Sands Folk Festival
I went to Woburn Sands for a folk festival with a friend. First we looked at some poetry. I have 3 favourites and this lady is one of them. She sang songs and she read poems. One was about being young one was about being old, called Vintage, and one was about Narnia.

This man was a story teller called Yaw Asiyama. He told a story about learning spellings and made me, my friend, my sister and my Mum stand up and be part of the story.

This was Mister L (Greg Loftman) Gregs who did rap kind of poetry. You can find him on facebook.  Another poet did short 6 liners, but too many of them! 

After the poetry we looked round the stalls of crafts and other things, then had lunch.

As we were about to leave, there were a few Morris Dancers performing in the street.











Geology

We went on a couple of Home Ed organised Geology trips. First we saw the sand pit which was in the woods at Apsley Heath.People from the village used to be able to take sand from here.It has the sand it used to be the bottom of the sea.






Below the sand there is a special layer called Fullers earth. This has been used since Roman times for many things including taking the grease out of wool.  We saw some bell pits which are the remains of mines for Fullers earth.We also saw lots of lumps of iron.

We walked down the path to a roman laundry.

Two days later we went to  Potten were there was a quary by the scout hut.We saw the layers of iron and sand from 100,000000 years ago.It was really cool to think were we where used to be under the sea.We saw fossil worm holes and a layer of fuller's earth which is ash from a volcano.The big holes are nest's of birds called Sand Martins.