my house by James

this is my house. it is the opera tavern and it was
rebuilt in 1863 and £4836 to build . it was first built
in 1791 as the Yorkeshire gray . in 1848 it became
the Sheridan Knowles. we have a ghost and his name
is Robert baddeley . he was an actor at the theatre
royal.

Jobs By Mario

Little children such as 5-7 year olds would have got sent up the chimney to clean the chimneys and others would work in coal mines under the ground.

Marios Fanology

Fanology is fan language.We learnt how to speak with fans. People used to speak with fanology when they went to balls.

Christiana Emily

tuesday:
The first day was so great, but the problem was i came a littlebit late but when
i came we were reading about the georgians.

The best thing i liked about this is : when we got to write a letter with quils,quils is a ink with a feather with a sharp end.

wednesday:
we started to talk about gin lane.

Do you know iknow somthing you do not know

lupas favourite week

This week on building detective I done so much fun history. mostly it was fun on wednesday
afternoon becouse most of us made a mask and I was one of them. We used feather,,
seaqanes, and sparkly glitter we even used colourful paper. Then rebeca took photo of us with us wearing our mask.

Making a marsk BY Tasnim khanom

On Wednesday we made masks and we used glitter and feathers we had trace another Marks . some of us had to tell the teacher to cut the eyes out for us. then we decerated our marks . I used feather and glitter we used stros to hold the marks

Calum's trip to Sir John Soane's museum

My Fun Week by kai

On the first day I had so much fun, we learnt how to speak with fans, this is called Fanology . We also dressed up in Georgian clothing, which was really cool!!!

On the next day.....I learnt lots about the foundling hospital by going around the foundling museum We saw real life tokens that were given to the children by their parents before entering the hospital.

On Thursday we visited Sir John Soane's museum, which was his real life house!!!
Their where lots of tricks, my favorite trick was we when to a small room with 20 beautiful paintings, some Painted by Sir John Soane himself, but there were actually 100, some behind the others. There are two more tricks to tell you....The second one is we went to a brown table spoke quite closely to the table and it echoed!! Finally we saw a statue of a person standing on a line and we walked to another room and looked on a wall which was mirrored and saw a reflection of the statue from the other room.

Today (Pinch, punch first of the month)
I am excited because its the last day. We are making our own blogs with a film of what we have done at building detectives this week. I have enjoyed my week and learnt lots of things about the Georgians and more. I am soooooooooo proud myself!!!

My favourate week by James

This week I went to sir john soane museum and I drew a clock .

When we got back to the foundling museum we done some marbling .

Before that we passed around old things from the buildings.

On wednesday I was acting as a dad trying to give my baby to the foundling because I don't have a wife and I have four other children to look after.

Sameera's trip to the Sir John Soans museum

Thursday 31st of May

I arrived at Sir Johan Soane's museum we got there by coach. We hagged up are coats and lunch bags. After that we went up the stairs to Sir Johan's Soane's living room. We sat down on the carpet and we talked. Then they split us all into 3 groups. Everyone saw painting's, stature's of him. It was very sad, that him and his wife helped build his kids house. Then they saw a nice house next to his kids house and they built that house. When they moved in his wife only lived there for 2 years. That was really sad. The only friend he had after his wife died is his... Dog. Fanny the dog. We all saw painting of his sons John and George. And a sketch of his wife. On the sealing in most of the rooms were pretty chandelier.

By Sameera

FOUNDLING by Jessica

The Camden young Archaeologists[also known as the building detectives] have been working
about the Foundling hospital. We made a move . WATCH MINE!

tolas day at the foundling musemn

Dear diary,
today me and the rest of the build dectectives went to the sir John soanes museum
and we looked at all the treasures there from about 300 years and we were all
split up in groups and then it was lunch time we all ate at Lincolns inn and ate there
after we played football at the field.

the bus arived at 1.05 an it was along bus ride so we got back at 2.43 so then we
played out side then we did some marberling an we all of had a go

m.js favouriote day

first i arived at the Foundling museaum on Thurday we got all our stuff redey then we went outside to get the coach and the coach driver said shut up because we keeped on sining bus when we got to sir jhon son's we went down stairs to put our bags and coats away then we went back up stairs then we splet up in to two groups then we went to differnt parts of the museum we went with Jonathon all the way down stairs and we saw a big

ciarans favourite day

first i arived at the the Foundling musemn on Wednesday and we dressed up and we did a game about which baby will go to the Foundling museum and wew voted,and i voted for James and his baby got to go to the foundling museum then we had lunch and then WE PLAYED FOOTBALL that was my favouriote bit of the day then we looked at georgians houses and Doric colums,Ionic colums and corinthien colums.

and then it was time to go home and i can play o-n my PS2 and play football i love to play football.

the next day we went to the museum it was

What Altan did in the week

Tuesday.On tuesday we learnt how to do fanology. fanology is a language of a fan. We went on a long walk to look at Georgian thing like georgian houses and we look at cole holes.

Wensday.On wensday we look around the founding museum and we voted what baby will go into the founding hospital but the ladys was not allowed to vote beause in the Georgian times ladys was not allowed to vote.we made masks and wigs.

Thursday.On thursday we went on a trip to the sir john soane's museum and we learnt all kinds of things and we learnt a lot.

This week was fun

Annabella's fun day!!

Tuesday 29th May 2007

So. On Tuesday i arrived at the building detectives project, it was around 9:45pm when i came. As soon as i got there i saw my best friend, Dea. We all grabbed some chairs and sat down, my mum saw that i was comfortable and left confidently! We all saw Jonathon dressed in a Georgian fashion!! It was so funny. Jonathon introduced as and soon we all started chatting and chatting and chatting and chatting.

After we went to the park, we dressed up (not everyone dressed up) and pretended that we were on a film crew. Some people were acting and some were the crew, for example director, the filmers and the snapper person.

Lunch had soon started and ended. I got so full up and satisfied. Once we had all finished our lunch, we had made an activitie which was writing with quills and ink, i wrote a letter to my brother! That was also fun!! We also learnt the language of the fans. here is an example of a few words with the fan;

• Fan closed tip to right cheek (yes)
• Fan closed tip to left cheek (no)
• Fan closed covering right ear (hush, we are being overheard)
• Fan open yorn behind fan (you bore me)

Rahats CRAK'IN musem:sir Johns museum!

On 31st of May I, Rahat Mostafa, went to sir John Soane's museum.
As soon as I got to the foundling I got on the coach.

(ONE YEAR LATER)

At last I arrive at the SIR JOHN MUSEUM! As I walked through the museum (with Johnathan) I went into the Crypt..... At the CRYPT I found Britania. But the most prized item THE MUMMYS TOMB!!!!!!!!!!............!!!!!!!!!!!!!..............
At last I'M back!

Ruhul's knowledge of fanology

In the Georgian ladies answer there husband with there fan and if they touch there right cheek that will mean yes and if they touch there left cheek that meant no and if they touch there nose it meant there not to be trusted and also if you pointed it meant I hate you and if you want to show that they love someone you flatter your fan over your eyes.If you touch your fourhead it meant your out of your mind.

Marios Fun week

This week we did lots of fun exciting things.
On Monday it was bank holiday.
On Tuesday we went on a long walk around the area and found out new things and looked at lots of Georgian things.
On Wednesday we went around the Foundling Museum and looked at Georgian things and Kings.
On Wednesday afternoon we made masks and wigs.
On Thursday we went to the Sir John Soane's museum and explored his home and the Georgian kings.
On Thursday afternoon we did paper marbling.
The Foundling Museum was a hospital in the Georgian period.

THIS WAS THE BEST WEEK !!!

Thomas' favourate thing

My favourite thing of the whole week was dressing up. The best thing about dressing up was when I looked like a girl in front of the whole class! I was glad when I got out of those old rags because they were really itchy. The worst part of that day was when I had to flirt with my brother with the fans!

We also learnt the language of the fans and I was quite good at it.

Here are some instructions:

1. Fan closed, to right cheek, yes.
2. Fan closed, to left cheek, no.
3. Fan open, covering eyes, I love you!(yuck!)
4. Fan open, facing down, I despise you!

My fantastic week by Dea

Tuesday 29th may 2007

On Tuesday i went to the building detectives and i was the third one there. I didn't see any of my friends there. Then i waited for about 10 minutes and my best friend had arrived.

When everyone was there Jonathon,the funny guy, started to make some really funny jokes!
He was wearing Georgian clothes. Later on, the girls had to get in some weird dresses and the boys had to get into even weirder suits. When we had all been dressed into the Georgian clothes, we started to act in different characters like queens and kings. People even started to film us!

After that, we had lunch. My lunch was very delicious, i was actually quite full up.
When we had finished, we went to the park for a bit of a run around. It took about 5 minutes to get there. The funnest part for me was when we wrote a letter with quill pens and ink!

Lindsay's Spectacular Week At Biulding Detectives

Dear Diary,

This week has been veryfantastic at the Building Detectives, we have been to the Sir John SoanesMuseum we have been also learning about Thomas Coram's and the Georgians.

The most wonderful thing that I have learnt is that in the Georgian times people who felt poorly had to drink Gin and now after a few years that road was called Gin Lane,also I learnt that in Georgian times most rivch people and juges use to wear white wigs and artists would paint a picture of them wearing the bright white wig.

On Thursday we vdone plaster moulding and everyone was having fun because we got covoured in paint people made wounderful colors and patterns with some of the childern got 2 gos and some people did not have 2 gos because There was to many people but the childern understud and did not get up set . The last thing i learnt was that there was a tomb called the sarcophagus were he loved to collect and build diffrent things about the Romans.

By: Lindsay -Stephannie

My exciting week [Jayed]

My second favourate activity was going to the sir john soanne's mussiem because we saw lots of pictures of different people.And finnaly found out how much was one shillings was 252 pennies to a pound.And we saw lots of sculptures.

My favourite day was thursday because we did some marbling.On tuesday we got into partners and we was given a sheet and on the sheet was some pictures and when we went outside to loke for the pictures.

On thursday while we wear on the bus we was looking for lots of old buildings.And the person how found the most would win a prise.

I think everyones favourite game was survivle because we had to run around and collect stikers from peoples back and the last 3 people whith there stikers on there back wins the game.The people whith no stickers on their back have to pretend to be dead.And thats how people used to dye so quikely.[be careful]

Today we went to the clc and made our own film and it was very fun and i'm sure everyone else had fun.And everyone gets to watch all the films and here the sentence they made.

My fantastic days in the Georgian times by Angelly

Dear diary,

I've learned so much in the building detectives project. Also I've learned extremely allot about the Georgian times that i think i know enough now as well Ive been doing some fun things like marbling, making mask and playing games with Johnathan.

On Tuesday i didn't go because i went Paris and missed a ferry.

On Wednesday the building detectives and the teachers and me went for a walk around the foundling museum. We went to this room and found loads of portraits of men they all had wigs. after all off that Rebbecca chose 2 girls and 1 boy we each had a baby and a letter explaining why we wanted our child to be in the found ling hospital because the person that invented the foundling hospital which is Thomas Coram had already enough children in the hospital so they had to do a vote one girl won and the boy won. The

Samira's Great Georgian Week

Dear Diary,
During the half term I did a progect called Building detectives which took placeat the foundling museum.
It was so much funand went on for 4 days.
On teusday we dressed up in Geogian clothes and did a bit of acting. We did a roleplay of to couples and we were given fans so when we were asked us a question we had to use our fans to answer. In the evening we write letters to our parentsusing quill pen then put coloured waxs on it and then used pictured stamps to seal them.

On Wednesday we went for our jubilee walk. On the walk we were given a map with questions, clues and pictures on it. We had to walk around town for 30min searching for object that give us information on the georgian.In the evening we made ball masks and made Geogian wigs. Before we went home Jonathon did a rat-catcher thearter act. He did a rat race with 3 fake rats, I found it very funny.

On Thursday we went to Sir Jonh Soane's Home Museum. He was a rchitectand in his house he had a Sarcophagus in the centre of his house. A Sarcophagus is a Eygpt tomb cot. He had loads of portraites and bird eye veiw

Building Detectives May 07

This is our Blog about all the exciting things we have done this week as part of our Building Detectives half term project!