Fiery animation

We used an App on the iPads called Imotion to create some great Fire of London animations. You can't watch the animation on the blog but here are some screen shots.

When all the pictures are captured you can choose the speed that they are shown in the animation.

Book creators

We have put all our knowledge of The Great Fire of London together into books on the iPads. Unfortunately we can't show them properly here so you'll have to look at screen shots!

Connor and Holly

Olivia and Sam

Oslo and Justin

Phoebe and George

Time travellers

Squirrels and Badgers travelled back in time and met up with Samuel Pepys! He told us lots about the fire and we told him all we knew. 

Samuel Pepys showed us how a fire squirt worked!

He told us how he sent his wife away to safety with his gold and treasures. We asked him about burying his wine and cheese. 

We found out loads of amazing facts that we hadn't heard before.

Quaker wood, the second visit!

Squirrels and Badgers had a perfect morning at Quaker wood today. The children were amazed at how much it had changed since our last visit in March! We had 4 activities to carry out over the morning - flower identification, using nets to collect insects and bugs from the long grass, searching for bugs in the earth and under leaves and pond dipping. 

Here are a few pictures to give a flavour of the morning:

Working really well together in groups

Collecting insects with nets

Having a closer look

Pond dipping

Mason found lots of different bugs in the undergrowth

Kellen to the rescue when something got stuck in the pooter which he had to suck out (luckily not an insect!) !!

Isobel was a whizz at identifying what she had found

The boys found a huge spider!!

Thank you to the activity leaders at Quaker wood, the volunteers who came with us and to the children for behaving so beautifully (the leaders were very complimentary of them).