Friday 23 September 2016

Today at school our first lesson was a assembly about genes for jeans day. It's where you wear jeans and donate at least one pound. In assembly they explained about how gingerbread men are a bit like ginger bread men. they have the same recipe, but look different. If something goes wrong with the recipe it ends bad. Like you add HOT CHILLI to the gingerbread man. Imagine what would happen. After assembly we had maths. we learnt about rounding up and down. If you have to round 7562 to the nearest 10, then you have to look to the left of the ten. In this case, 2. If it is 5 or above then you turn the number into the next highest number. Plus the number/s to the right ALWAYS turn to 0's. So, like this: 7570. But if it is 4 or below, you round it down and the number stays the same. However, the number/s to the right always turn to 0's. Like this: 7560. That is how rounding in 4 digit numbers works. It was hard to understand at first, but I figured it out. After lunch I had IT. We had IT for the whole afternoon. In IT we went on google classroom, a sort of virtual classroom where you can text your classmates. We texted each other and then wrote facts About our facts. My fact was that Fenrir Grayback, the werewolf in the Harry Potter books, was named after a ferocious giant wolf, Fenrir, from ancient viking mythology. It was a cool fact and I got a lot of comments! 13

Last Wednesday, Chris Riddell, the author of the Ottoline and Goth Girl books, came for a visit an he told us about his books and other things to do with him. Like he told us his manager was a stern person like the stern woman from the Incredibles. He also said that he went to work in a hot air balloon, which is really inconveniant because his studio is at the bottom of his garden. Then someone pointed out that he had a Blue Peter badge. It was gold! That is the highest rank in Blue Peter! He got it on world book day. Apparently, the lady who gave it to him was dressed up as the white witch of Narnia. I was also amazed by the fact that he based Mr Munroe, on his daughter! She combed her hair in front of her face, so she looked like A monster! After that he signed some of our books that we ordered. I have the first three Ottoline books to prove it, they are even SIGNED. You don't get that often, do you?