A Story by Henry Boulton

A witch put a spell on Mummy. She would sleep unless her son told her nice stories. So Henry told the story…

Once upon a time there was a little boy called Henry. Henry went into a magical forest and met a unicorn. All the trees were sparkly colours in the forest.

The unicorn said, “In the pink sparkly tree there is a little door which is the back door of a fairy’s home.”

So Henry knocked on the door and a little fairy came out.

“Are you the little fairy the unicorn was talking about?” said Henry.

“Yes” said the fairy.

“Could you shrink me for a bit so I can visit your house?”

“Yes” said the fairy.

So Henry entered the house after he’d been shrunk.

“Would you like some dinner?” said the fairy.

“Yes.”

So Henry ate the food until he was full up.

“I want to play.” said Henry. So Henry, the fairy, and Henry’s other fairy friends played together in the lounge.

The End.

The story was so good that it woke Mummy up and broke the magic spell and took all the witch’s powers away.

Holiday in Stratford-upon-avon

We are having a 3 night sleepover in Stratford-upon-avon.

  

Sunday 24th July 2016

 

We went on a boat in Stratford-upon-avon. It was very fun on that boat.

 

Monday 25th July 2016

We went to a Tudor farm.

It was very fun playing with that little girl. She was Dutch.

In the farmhouse I tried one of the children’s beds. It was comfy at the head and the feet but not so comfortable at the legs and body. There were little doorways that used to be windows.

  

They had a lot of vegetables that they were going to put into pottage. They had pottage, pottage and pottage. They could not afford the sugar.

     

We watched them eat a meal. The Master was the first one to sit down at the table and start eating first. They had spoons and not forks.

  

It was very fun doing the spinning. I did the carding and the rolling and the spinning and it was all very, very, very fun.

     

We watched an owl fly.

 

We fed the pigs and we finished up all the food on the goats.

  

I saw the cow being milked.

 

I was herding the geese.

 

I went down a fun willow tunnel.

     

I saw butterflies and bees, both in the meadow.

  

We did a Tudor dance.

  

Tuesday 26th July 2016

We went to the MAD museum of kinetic art.

 

When we were going up the stairs we saw a big marble run thingy.

  

At the MAD museum we some some trains as well.

 

We saw a big marble run made out of kitchen stuff. You had to put your foot on the pedal, the black bit of the pedal, to start the kitchen marble run.

There was a magnetic and wooden run that you could make your own marble run out of.

 

It was wonderful.

  

We went to Shakespeare’s birthplace.

  

We got to Anne Hathaway’s cottage by a taxi.

 

I made a village from big building blocks and then there was a pretend earthquake.

  

I found some fairies in the garden. Some of them were asleep in the flowers. Some of them were awake. Sometimes some of them landed on my hand.

  

We played chase through the lavender.

  

I made a Tudor tile from clay.

We did some brass rubbing of Shakespeare.

I beat Mummy at the Tudor game.

We went for a walk in the woods.

Wednesday 27th July 2016

We played mini-golf. The mini-golf was tricky.

I made a mask at a Tudor house.

I went on a rowing boat and I helped do some of the rowing in both directions.

I went to a butterfly farm and a butterfly landed on Mummy’s head.

We saw some ants and other insects at the butterfly farm.

I really did enjoy my holiday.

Standalone Farm, Letchworth

There was a model railway. I put lots of 20ps in to make the model railway work.

I really liked the playground, especially the wobbly blue tractor.

I saw guinea pigs and rabbits and chicks. They weren’t in the same bit but they were quite close together.

I fed the lamb. The lamb pulled quite a lot.

We saw piglets having milk from their mummy.

The metal starts off straight and you heat it and then bend it and bend it and bend it until the metal makes a horse shoe.

I saw a cow being milked.

I milked a plastic cow.

 

There were lots of things to play with. I liked playing with all the stuff.

  

I drove two electric cars. I really liked pressing the pedal down with my foot on the cars. This was my favourite thing.

Lambing at Wimpole

A few weeks ago we went to see lambing at Wimpole Farm. One of the babies had a bit of trouble getting a leg out so it only had one leg popping out. The one in the photo didn’t have any trouble though. It came out really fast. The mummy sheep licked the lamb.

The newborn lambs got some boobie from their mummies because sheep are mammals.

The older lambs were out in the fields.

We saw piglets at Wimpole Farm. We also saw a blue tractor which I could pretend to drive.

 

I liked pretending to milk a cow but it wasn’t a cow instead it was a bucket. I saw bees in the beehive.

We went to the playground at Wimpole. My favourite was the wobbly floor.

North Norfolk Railway and Wells-next-the-sea Beach

We went to Holt Station. I really liked the train planter and I also really liked the model railway in the carriage that didn’t move (they were still building it).

I really liked the model railway in the room. There were lots of lights.

We went in the big train. It took us out of Holt Station. I saw lots of bogies on the way that weren’t being used. I saw a signal box near the railway.

There was a green carriage by the railway that had been turned into a cottage.

I would like to go on the North Norfolk railway again one day.

Then we went to the beach. Mummy, Daddy and me built a sand castle with a moat.

Mummy paddled in the water but I didn’t want to. I saw a seal. It was looking at the people with black wet suits on and I think the seal was wondering if they were seals too.

There were three big boats that weren’t streamlined and they made big waves. the first one was a green boat. It made very big waves. The red boat which came after the red boat made big waves too. Daddy was trying to build a castle near the water to get the moat to fill in quickly. Daddy’s deadline was the first red boat coming.

  

We went to a playground near the beach and I did a lot of very good balancing. There was a pirate ship. I went down a slide at the playground.

I really liked the ice cream I had there.

 

Audley End with Home-ed Friends

We met some friends at Audley End in the garden near the car park. I really liked playing tag.

I really liked seeing the flowers in the gardens.

We played a pretend game in the willow shelter. L- told us a story in the “spaceship”. I found a space rock on Mars.

We went to the stables. We rode a pretend horse and tried on a costume.

Then we went to the playground.

Next we went to the fountains. I played with the baby J- near the fountains.

Sophie told us a story.

Then we went to look in the big house.

Adventures in London

   Yesterday we were at the Tower of London. We saw a Raven.

   

We went on a moving floor and I saw a lot of crowns. (Really it wasn’t very many crowns.) Then we came off the moving floor. Today I made a crown like one of the ones I saw but it didn’t have enough jewels to be that crown really.

   

We learnt that there used to be animals kept there. The tigers had a fight with a lion. By mistake they opened the cage and probably the tigers got out and then they got into the lion’s cage and the lion ran away but it got caught and died.

   

The polar bear caught fish in the Thames by the Tower of London. It jumped into the Thames to catch the fish. Normally it was chained up.

   

The guards stand very, very still. They wear red and funny hats.

  

There were lots of pretend horses wearing suits of armour. There was one black one that wasn’t wearing one and I said I would chose to ride that one.

  

One pretend dragon looked quite scary. It was a good job it was a pretend dragon. Its eyes were red lights.

   

We went on a boat to the London Eye. We watched a film showing London things. We wore 3D glasses. At the end of the film we put them in a special bin. It made it look like things came out at me. It did blew some bubbles at me.

   

The London Eye was taller than I was expecting. It was really, really tall.

   

I saw lots of trains and buses from the London Eye. I could also see the Houses of Parliament.

  

I enjoyed my day in London. My favourite bit was seeing the Crown Jewels.

Helping on a Community Farm

  

I did some weeding. I used a trowel to start with but then I switched to a rake. It got really tiring for me and then I decided to play on the pirate boat. L was being the Captain and pirate and driver.

  

I saw some tadpoles. They were wiggly. One went down into the water below.

  

We were watering plants. We had to turn the tap on but then I saw a red nozzle and it was supposed to fix on to the tap but it had fallen off. We put it back on and filled up our watering can.

  

I cleaned some golf balls.

I planted some raspberry plants.

Tesco Farm to Fork Tour

 

We went on a tour. I held a dead fish. It felt a bit cold and a bit warm. I saw its gills. Part of the side of it opens up and that part of the side is where its gills are.

 

We ate some cheese. I liked the cheese. I didn’t like the one with green bits over it but I did like the one that was covered in white. I had different cheese because some of it wasn’t vegetarian.

 

We saw a dough making machine and we saw dough being made inside it. I saw one big dough being lifted out.

 

I did some icing. I made a cake with it.

In the warehouse I went into a freezer. I went in a tiny bit but then it felt too cold. Other people stayed in there for quite a bit but then it was too cold for them. That’s how you would feel at the arctic without warm clothes on.

 

The people that work there normally eat in the room where I had food. There were raspberries, strawberries and blueberries and there was some bread too.

I liked the tour. My favourite bit was seeing the bakery.

 

York Mini-Holiday

Sunday 14th February 2016

On the way we stopped by a narrow gauge railway and we went on the narrow gauge steam train. I got to pull the whistle. I looked at the firebox. It was a short ride from one station to another. It was lovely. I did like pulling the whistle and looking at the firebox.

The playground was by the narrow gauge railway. There were lots of toys to play with. My favourite bit was sliding down the shoe slide.

The sun went away very quickly and it started snowing.

When we got back to the hotel we played a game. It was Junior Catan. I played with a pretend steam train. It was one of my Christmas presents. Thank you Great Auntie Mary.

Monday 15th February 2016

I went to a museum called Dig. I dug to find Roman stuff and Viking stuff and Victorian stuff. I looked at bones and I looked at x-rays. I blew a Viking horn and I tried a Viking helmet on and I made a little Viking made out of paper and wet stuff called pen.

We looked around the Viking area. I saw a ship and I went into a tent and saw a game that I wanted to play but I wasn’t able to because there were too many people.

 

When we got back to the hotel I played the Robot Turtle game. There were lots of walls that you can’t fire lasers at in the way but you can fire lasers at the ice walls. I wrote a program that started with laser, laser. It was a long program.

Then we went back around York and had a run around in the park and we saw a ruin in the park.

 

Tuesday 16th February 2016

We went to the Railway Museum. We went under a train and we saw a carriage and lots of engines. We saw the Mallard and I sat in the driver’s seat. We went inside a bullet train.

   

I went inside the Mallard experience and it was all cold because it was blowing out cold air at me and going very fast.

We went on a Diesel Miniature Train. It was on a miniature railway. I went on with Mummy and Daddy.

 

There was a model railway with cargo and passenger trains going round on it.

There was a bit about signals. You had to press the red button to start the train and we had to press two other buttons to change the signals by the side of the track. We saw people mending a train.

   

I played in the play area.