[2] How big was Noah’s Ark with facts and figures
How big was Noah’s Ark? Like a 14000 ton Tanker, very sea-worthy, unlike the ark in the Babylonian flood story. We compare the Titanic, Mayflower, etc
Florence Nightingale 22nd June 2011
In 1854 amidst the disease, filth and badly injured soldiers entered a lady called Florence: She did an extremely difficult job caring for those soldiers, cleaning and bandaging their wounds, feeding them and being with them…
Bugsy (Leave) Me-alone 25th May 2011
We called this event: ‘’Bugsy (Leave) Me-alone’ It’s 1929 and what was Bugsy trying to do? (Do the right thing – not join the gangsters) He was being bombarded from all sides by Mr Big who runs the show around here and Dusty Dirty Rat who ran another gang. When we want to do the right…
Cruella snatches Duncan 23rd March 2011
Duncan, our friendly (puppet) Donkey, has mysteriously disappeared from his field, but fortunately there were some clues: a turned over water trough, a hole in the hedge, tyre tracks…
Local Defence Volunteers 16th February 2011
We joined the ‘Local Defence Volunteers’ or ‘Homeguard’ as it was known as. Oh yes, and we also had some trouble from the A.R.P. Warden as well… Captain Montgomery and Sergeant Wimpey had a difficult decision to make when they had to defuse an unexploded bomb…
Sponsor a child 26th January 2011
At times we see awful pictures on the TV of people in the world who are really struggling to survive. Is there anything we can do? At Earith Storykepers we decided there was one thing we could do…
Cowboy crossing the Rockies 12th December 2010
The cowboy was heading west with a number of wagons. The journey was long and difficult and they finally came to a huge mountain range blocking their way. Another problem was that it was autumn and winter was coming…
Christmas Party 8th December 2010
Our Christmas Party: We enjoyed some games. Can you spot the two ‘human Christmas trees’…
S. S. Suevic shipwreck 10th November 2010
Cornwall November 1907 and the night of a violent storm! The ship S. S. Suevic was sailing from Australia to Southampton. It was an appalling night, a gale was blowing and the Captain couldn’t see anything and they were getting close to the Cornish coast…
Robin Hood 23rd September 2010
Can we learn anything good from Robin Hood? The Sheriff was up to his bad tricks again. He was pushing people around and treating the people very badly. The problem was that he was used to getting his own way…
Pirates and treasure 14th July 2010
Pirates and treasure go together like bread and butter. We became pirates but soon ran into trouble – we got taken prisoner by Big Bad Grey Beard’s pirates. But it wasn’t all bad, we noticed where they had hidden some treasure…
Our timelines 30th June 2010
We did a time-line to represent our Storykeeper events and stories. Then we thought about a time-line of our individual lives…
Vote for unusual MP’s 26th May 2010
We gave an opportunity to the children to vote for some very unusual MP’s. First we gave each MP an opportunity to explain who they were, what they represented and how they were going to make a difference to us…
Earith’s Got talent 22nd April 2010
Earith’s Got talent: We had songs, dancing and other acts. But some of the judges weren’t very nice. There was one judge in particular who just had to pull every act to pieces…
Pride of lions 24th March 2010
We went to the African Savannah to be amongst the lions! We came across a pride of lions. Simba was a young lion who had a responsibility to be the head of the Pride…
New life in America on the Titanic 24th February 2010
England 1910 is looking a bit boring, but New York City looks like an exciting place to go and there’s the opportunity to go on the luxury ship The Titanic…
Rrrrufts Dog Show 27th January 2010
We then prepared our dogs to be entered into Rrrrufts Dog Show and we had to do some test courses – a bit like an assault course!…