Time travel writing

As part of our time machine topic we have been thinking about what it was like to write in different eras.

We learned about Viking Runes, and made our own rune stones out of clay.  We also tried writing with a quill and ink.

Here is some of our work.

Time travel treats

On Monday we looked at a time line of history and all the different periods, such as Ancient Egypt, Romans, Vikings, Tudors, Victorians, and the 20th Century. As a class, we decided that the Viking era would be an interesting time to learn about, so we left Wolfgang Tempus a message asking him to go back in time and gather some information.

The next day he left us an answerphone message saying that he would travel back in time for us, but in the meantime he has left us a little surprise hidden in the nature garden.

After following some clues we finally found a time capsule from the Victorian times.

We discussed what all the different items might be, and then wrote some captions about what we would put in to a time capsule to let people know about life today.

Some of our ideas included Skylanders, ipods, cameras, McDonalds Happy Meals and modern hot water bottles (we found a Victorian hot water bottle in the time capsule).

Wolfgang takes us back in time.

Today we had another message from Wolfgang Tempus the time-traveler.  His time machine had vanished on Wednesday morning, and now we know where he went.

After watching the message we started to piece together the mystery.  We worked out that one of the people in the film could be Jesus.  Mr Littlewood then told us that he'd done a little bit more research and found out that it WAS Jesus, and that the other man was called John the Baptist.

We learned about the story of John the Baptist and talked about why people get Christened today - we remembered Reverand Stordy telling us about Christenings at the font at Ecclesfield Church.

We ended the day by making a storyboard to retell the story of John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus.