Easter Holidays

YUM!!! I could smell the chocolate from miles away!
I went to wake up Jamie, "GET UP ITS EASTER AND YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!" I yelled at her,
She woke up and sleepily yawned, she came to the side of the crib and glared at me but when she saw the chocolate her face brightened up a bit.
I lifted her out of the crib and placed her on the floor, she struggled to open the tightly rapped egg but eventually ripped it open.
I ran into my room and opened my chocolates.

"THIS IS THE BEST EASTER EVER!" I shouted.

By Paris

The New Car

Vroooooooom!!!!!!!!!
Our cloud white car speeds across the highway.
MMMMMMmmmmmmm ,,, overtaking two cars coming back from Palmerston,
Our car fits eight people!! Two in the front, three in the back and three in the middle.
I sit there admiring the view, with all the greenery and hills,
Grass juts out like a Spanish flamenco dancers dress.
I press the open button and like observatory the roof opens.
I sit back and relax.

The taste of things

The taste of things

I love the taste of radiant, juicy fruit,

And the crunchy skin on a roast goose,

I desire the crumbly apple pie,

And the intense flavoured cake reaching way up high,

I love the crunchy bacon rind,

And glossy, minty sauce that we smother on top,

I love the taste of cheerful, crunchy, golden roast potatoes,

And crisp, fresh coleslaw or salad,

I love the taste of lots of things,

(Including the taste of gummy rings!)

 

Archimedes (pulleys)

We use pulleys almost everyday!

Archimedes was a great mathematician and engineer who was born 287 years BC in Syracuse, Sicily. He is credited with coming up with the idea and the use of modern day maths equations and the way things like levers, pumps and pulleys work. Archimedes had wrote in a letter to King Hieron that he could move any weight with pulleys, he boasted that given enough pulleys he could move the whole world! The king challenged him to move a big ship that would take lots of men and a great amount of work to move the sea. On the planned day, the ship was loaded with lots of passengers and a full cargo, and the king watched to see if Archimedes could do what he said he could. Archimedes knew he could improve his mechanical advantage for lifting or moving an object using pulleys.

 A pulley moves a force along a rope without changing how big it is. When engineers work with pulleys they often make sure that the rope of the pulley moves smooth and evenly, without catching. These systems are known as simply "pulley systems" because they use the same rope through the whole system, if the pulleys were attached with more than one rope the system would be a "complex pulley system".

By Katie

Automaton by Blake and Andrew

Have you ever had a cooler toy than this?

It’s called a automaton and it is the coolest toy ever

It can move up and down and has got the most

beautiful  colours on it. It has a  robot face, a spiral

nose and a big hat . So how’s that that for a toy.

My automaton is almost finished. Mine has lots of colours

and lots of features.
When I finish my toy I’m going to

give it to my little brother Mathew

Early Toys by Jeffrey

Did you know that people played with toys 2000 years ago for example, the Egyptians played with dolls, toy soldiers, wooden animals, balls, marbles, spinning tops and knuckle bones.

The Ancient Greeks children liked playing ball games; they also liked playing knuckle bones, spinning tops, dolls, model horses with wheels were popular, hoops, rocking horses. Don’t you think it would be good to live at that place?

The Romans also had toys for the children to play with at that time. There were wooden or clay dolls (which were a delight to the girls back then), ball games and board games were a favourite to the boys at that time. They also fiddled with animal knuckle bones. The first doll house was invented in Germany!

So now you have seen what the Ancient Civilisations had fun with, would you like to have been a child in the Ancient times?

Ancient toys by Will

Toys have been played with for hundreds and thousands of years.

If you think toys were only invented in the 20^th century think again! Toys have around since before the early Egyptians.

The toys then were like the toys now but they had no electronics. Back then, they played with board games, dolls, marbles, toy soldiers, knuckle bones, spinning tops, wooden animals, balls, inflated pigs bladders and many more.

So now you know what all the children in the ancient times played with.Would you like to be a child then, or do you prefer the technology today?