My sleepover

On Sunday the 19th of May I had a sleepover at my nanna and grandad's. But before thatI was taken to the Cambridge City Folk Museum. At the museum we went to the kitchen. I put on an apron and pretended to be the shopkeeper. There were lots of things that were laid out on the table to play with. In the last room which was called the childhood room where all the toys were kept In the childhood rooms it had the old dolls house and a replica you could play with. There were lots of other toys and even some books.

At the end of the museum we went to the shop and bought a game called heads and tales.

With nanna and grandad

Wearing boaters with grandad at the Folk Museum

Nanna and I pretending to be at the seaside

What I know about a few of my relatives and ancestors

Today I have learnt a bit about my ancestors and relatives.

1. Richard Kingsnorth from the Commonwealth time (1649-1660) had a story just like John Bunyan.They both Preached to Baptists. But trying to hide from the people who would try to get them in prison. Anyway John Bunyan was found a number of times and put in prison. As for Richard he was safe and nobody found him.
2. Even though Richard had the main story there were  people who came after him.Such as the Pullens. 

We walked up the footpath to the house where Richard Kingsnorth lived and led the first Baptist church there.

The beginning of the walk started at Chapel Lane (it got this name because it was the way the villagers would walk to the church)

The house where Richard Kingsnorth lived in the 1600s (and the church met)

William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce was a hero! He was a hero because he did the hard work of helping abolish the slave trade. Also his friends Clarkson, Pitt, Newton, More, Charles Fox and some more people helped him.

The slave trade was where people from other countries such as Africa were taken to different countries to work. They did things such as getting sugar. All the jobs they did were making other people richer while they were treated terribly.

He married Barbara and had six children and for some of the time he lived in London.

William Wilberforce statue at St John's College

Romantic poetry

On Friday mum took us to Byron's Pool to write Romantic poetry. She told us that we should write about Byron's pool and how we feel about it.

Here's the poem that I wrote. I hope you like it!

The blossoms by the water's edge

The water moves
like a gentle tunnel,
leading to the blossoms.
The trees move in the windy air
beside the lake where the sun shines down.
I see a cottage far down the lake.
I'm happy even if I just see the trees
Blowing in the windy breeze.

About the poem Daffodils by Wordsworth

Today, I was learning about some Romantic poets that had a bit of their life in Cambridge. We read some poems written by Coleridge, Byron and Wordsworth.

My favourite poem was Daffodils, by William Wordsworth. I liked how it started off quite gently and then it suddenly had a big difference with the sound as he sees the daffodils. He suddenly is feeling even happier than he was.

I also like it because it was like a dream or even a day filled with wonder. My favourite part is the last bit when he says:

For oft when on my couch I lie,
in vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills
and dances with daffodils.

It's about when he's remembering the daffodils and it makes him feel really happy.

Seals

On Saturday the fifth of May we went to Blakeney Point. Blakeney Point is a place where you can watch birds and seals. First we went for a walk around the marshy area.

Looking at the wildflowers - I worked out later that they were Gorse flowers, using my wildflower book.

To see the seals you have to go for a boat trip unless you have super dupper good binoculars. Here are some pictures from the boat trip.

Some boats that we saw.

The seal colony

Two seals fighting with some seals behind them.

Then we went to Oxburgh Hall. At Oxburgh Hall we went down the priests hole. A priest's hole is where priests used to hide when they were in danger of being captured. Some Catholics let them go and have a priest hole in their house. Here is a picture of me coming out of it.

We also went to the gardens. The grounds were big but there was a smaller formal garden called a 'parterre'.

Bec and me in the garden next to the moat.

Caution: Lots of birds

On the second of May 2013 we went to the Wildlife Discovery Area in Anglesey Abbey.

At the Wildlife Discovery area we went to lots of different places and saw lots of different animals.

One of the places we went to was the wildlife lookout. One of the animals we saw were pheasants.

We also went to the Lime Tree lookout. The Lime Tree lookout was my favourite thing. It was a giant treehouse.

On the way home we bought some peanuts at the shop to put in our bird feeder at home.

Entrance to the wildlife discovery area

Lime Tree Lookout

Bug hotel

pheasant

Bec, Jacob and I with our binoculars

our bird feeder

this is where we put it!