Live chat to London

This week we have been learning about the Queen, London with its famous sights like Big Ben, the Tower of London, the London Eye and The Houses of Parliament etc. It was most coincidental that my son, who is living in Winchester, England for the year, happened to be in London on Wednesday and got to see the queen in her big limousine drive right past him. He saw an extra special changing of the guards where the Queen presented her Household Cavalry with new standards(brightly coloured banners). Not only that, he got to see all the normal touristy sights that we have been discussing.

Look for the queen in the back seat wearing a
blue hat!

Listening carefully

He was so excited about what he had seen that I thought it would be great for him to tell my class all about it as well. So, we phoned him and he did just that. The children loved hearing what he had to say and asked him lots of questions...they all wanted to know if he had seen Big Ben and heard it chime. The most amusing question came from Blake...he wanted to know how Alistair could sleep with the noise that Big Ben makes! Today he spoke to Gills class who were just as fascinated.

Blake asking about Big Ben!