Grace Darling Journals.

We have produced some stunning writing about the amazing sea rescue done by Grace Darling and her father William in September 1838.

Here are just a few of our authors.

Mrs Kineavy's socks!

George knocked my socks off this afternoon with an amazing opening sentence to his Grace Darling Journal.

Hold onto your socks, here it is...

My life would have been normal if it wasn't for one storm and that is what changed my whole life.

What if?

What if we received a box from a museum. Should we open it?

What if the box had gloves in. Should we put them on?

"There might be something delicate and precious."

"It might be something really old."

What if we found a book. Should we take it out?

"It looks like it's been in a fire." 

"It looks as if it has got wet."

"It looks ancient old!"

"Be careful with it."

"There is a label on it."

"It says Journal of William Darling."

Should we open it and read it? 

What if it tells us all about life on Longstone lighthouse?

Will it give us any more details about the rescue Grace and her father William did?

What if the last page, the day of the rescue was missing? Why might that be?

"They were so busy doing the rescue they forgot the diary."

"It was so terrible that William was upset and wanted to forget all about it."

Reading multiplication sums.

We have carried on with counting and grouping today, but this time we had to read some sums. 

We learnt that in a multiplication sum such as 3 x 6 the first number tells us how big and the second number tells us how many. So 3 x 6 means the number 3, 6 times.

  

Thomas, Connor, Kellen and Oslo made a great discovery.

Counting and grouping.

We have been counting and grouping into 2s, 5s and 10s.

"These are in groups of 5, there are 20 groups."

"We are making groups of 10."

"I've made 6 groups of 10."

"We made nine groups of 10 so we wanted one more group to get to one hundred."

"We've got three groups of ten."

"We've made ten, five times."

"I've made five sets of ten."

"We've made three lots of ten."

"These are grouped in 2s."

"I've made 8 twos."

"I've got eight groups of two."

"This is fifteen twos."

"I made 11 lots of two."

"We counted these in 5s."

"This is five groups of five. I've got 25."

"I've made eight fives."

"We looked at the symbol X, it means groups, sets or lots of.

Who is this?

We looked at parts of a picture that started to tell a story. We only saw a small part at a time so we could really think about each new bit of information, ask questions and make up our minds about what we would discover.

There was a young lady in old fashioned clothes.

A storm was brewing and the lighthouse was shining out to sea.

We talked lots about what she was looking at, the rough sea, her wooden rowing boat and her worried expression.

Then we saw the wrecked ship. It must have crashed in the storm. We decided this lady had seen the ship from her lighthouse and rowed out to it. She must be very brave.

Now we had a name to go with this brave lady. 

Grace Darling. 

We then had a quick visit from Grace to our classroom and asked her some questions we needed answering. She rescued some people from a boat. Others died.

Then we watched a film about her life and the amazing rescue she did with her father, William.

Watch it here      http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dd493/clips

An unusual place.

Somewhere in the world is an unusual place.

There is a circular room. It is about 6metres across.

In that place was a room and some stairs. Unusual stairs. If you went up the stairs you came to a bedroom with very little furniture. 

What could this place be? "A castle?" "A house?" "A lighthouse?"

Who lived there? 

Further up the stairs were more rooms. What was in them? "I know, there is a lantern room."

Somebody lived in this place with their family.

"Are you Mr Grinling?" No

"Are you real?" Yes

"Were you in a film?" Yes, after I died.

"Are you a lighthouse keeper?" Yes

"Are you young?" Yes

"Are you a boy?" No

Outside a storm was brewing....

then raging....

into a full blown tempest.

The walls of the lighthouse were strong. 

If they could speak I wonder what they would say...

"I am strong." 

"I'll keep you safe."

"The storm is terrible."

"The wind is freezing cold."

What do you still want to find out about this story?