Riddles
1. I am a day of the week. I come right after and right before days that have the same number of letters in their names (English spelling) as each other. What day am I?
2. I am a six digit number. To write me correctly, you must use five zeros. You do not need a decimal point to write me correctly. One of my digits is a two. What number am I?
3. I am a number. I am the product of the number of digits in half a million and the number of years in a decade. What number am I?
4. Melody bought four boxes of red and green Christmas tree ornaments. Each box contained a dozen ornaments. There was an average of two broken ornaments in each box. Three of the boxes had only one broken ornament each. How many ornaments were broken in the other box?
5. Melody paid $18.24 in all for the four boxes of ornaments. How much did each box cost?
6. Santa has three eight hour shifts of elves working in his giant workshop every day during the year. No elf is allowed to work more than one shift per day. There are 95,000 elves working at the same time. How many individual elves are working each day?
7. The citizens of the United States may not know who their next president is until January 6, 2001. That would be a late Christmas present for some that would come about _____ weeks after Christmas.
8. I am a month of the year. I am not the eighth month, but I used to be. Think of a sea animal with eight arms. Think of a shape with eight sides. It makes sense that my name starts with the same letters. What month am I?
9. This mystery number has 4 digits. Every digit is an odd number. None of the digits is a 9. Every digit in the number is different. The smallest digit is in the thousands place. The greatest digit is in the ones place. The preceding describes two possible numbers. The mystery number is the greater of those two numbers. What is the mystery number?
10. This mystery number has 5 digits. There is a 4 in the ten thousands place. None of the other digits is a 4. What is the smallest number that this mystery number can be?
11. This mystery number has 6 digits. If you add one to this number it will be a 7 digit number. What is the mystery number?
12. This mystery number is one half of a billion. How many zeros are in this number?
13. Allen wakes up at 7:00 in the morning to get ready for school. At 8:15 he’s ready to go out the door and get on the school bus. How long does it take him to get ready?
14. Emily can’t wait to watch the next episode of her favorite TV show, Carpet Mice. It’s six o’clock in the evening and the show will be starting in one and a half hours. What time will the show begin?
15. The time is three hours earlier in California than in New York. If a live sports event that begins in New York at 8:00 p.m. is being shown on television and it ends when it’s 7:00 p.m. in California, how long does the event last?
16. If a movie is 125 minutes long, it still has _______ minutes to run after two hours.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Room 12 Homework term 4 week 3
Spelling
Learn your spelling words every night
Grammar
Find an article and highlight 1 boring paragraph then rewrite it in your own words adding in language features and descriptive words.
Inquiry
Bring in the things you need to make your group lighthouse.
Current Events
Find out...
When is this years election?
Who are the main candidates up for election?
What colour symbolises National?
What colour symbolises Labour?
What does MMP stand for?
What other options can we vote for this year?
Explain one of the options.
Learn your spelling words every night
Grammar
Find an article and highlight 1 boring paragraph then rewrite it in your own words adding in language features and descriptive words.
Inquiry
Bring in the things you need to make your group lighthouse.
Current Events
Find out...
When is this years election?
Who are the main candidates up for election?
What colour symbolises National?
What colour symbolises Labour?
What does MMP stand for?
What other options can we vote for this year?
Explain one of the options.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Room 12 homework Term4 week 2
1. Spelling
Learn your list words.
2. Grammar
Use all of your list words in gammatically correct sentences that contain speech marks.
E.g. "The match is unfortunately cancelled," the coach explained to his team.
3. Find information on Lighthouses and e-mail it to me at amandaf@botanydowns.school.nz
4. Complete a P.M.I. map on the following statement.
All houses should be built exactly the same.
Learn your list words.
2. Grammar
Use all of your list words in gammatically correct sentences that contain speech marks.
E.g. "The match is unfortunately cancelled," the coach explained to his team.
3. Find information on Lighthouses and e-mail it to me at amandaf@botanydowns.school.nz
4. Complete a P.M.I. map on the following statement.
All houses should be built exactly the same.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Room 12 Homework Term 4 Week 1
Welcome back to term 4.
Let's make it a great term!!
1. Spelling. Learn your words. Make sure you practise them every day!!!
2. Grammar. Find the rule for doubling a consonant before a suffix. Copy the rule then give 10 examples.
3. Write 5 sentences using your 10 words from above. Make sure your sentences are accurate and interesting.
4.Find an interesting piece of news. Cut it out. Highlight the key words and phrases.
5. Write 3-4 lines about your article. Main points only.
Let's make it a great term!!
1. Spelling. Learn your words. Make sure you practise them every day!!!
2. Grammar. Find the rule for doubling a consonant before a suffix. Copy the rule then give 10 examples.
3. Write 5 sentences using your 10 words from above. Make sure your sentences are accurate and interesting.
4.Find an interesting piece of news. Cut it out. Highlight the key words and phrases.
5. Write 3-4 lines about your article. Main points only.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Rugby World Cup
RWC
Friday 9th September. The day of the Spectacular, Rugby World Cup Grand Opening! This enthusiastic, entertaining event was located near Sky City, Auckland.
Approximately, I don’t know how many people were there because there were TOO Many heads to count which gave me a headache.
Finally it was 6:15 which meant the trophy deserving Dave Dobbyn sang the heart-warming song Welcome Home, Welcome Home! (People were still humming.)
1 hour later 600 men arrived for a frightening, ferocious haka. The mind-blowing performance stunned the audience as they were paralysed to their spots.
Eventually 3 hours later! The frizzy fireworks began! The lightning extravaganza was like a thrilling, gargantuan bombing party. To everyone’s amazement it finally ended with a scrutinizing finish. Finally it was game time! The All Blacks won the game 41-10 WOOO! We Won! So it ended well! Well... that’s for New Zealand that is! So New Zealand is a happy country (for the World Cup).
L.B.
Friday 9th September. The day of the Spectacular, Rugby World Cup Grand Opening! This enthusiastic, entertaining event was located near Sky City, Auckland.
Approximately, I don’t know how many people were there because there were TOO Many heads to count which gave me a headache.
Finally it was 6:15 which meant the trophy deserving Dave Dobbyn sang the heart-warming song Welcome Home, Welcome Home! (People were still humming.)
1 hour later 600 men arrived for a frightening, ferocious haka. The mind-blowing performance stunned the audience as they were paralysed to their spots.
Eventually 3 hours later! The frizzy fireworks began! The lightning extravaganza was like a thrilling, gargantuan bombing party. To everyone’s amazement it finally ended with a scrutinizing finish. Finally it was game time! The All Blacks won the game 41-10 WOOO! We Won! So it ended well! Well... that’s for New Zealand that is! So New Zealand is a happy country (for the World Cup).
L.B.
Rugby World Cup
Waiting in anticipation, the lights go dark, the crowd cheers... It alls starts now, as I sit down and wait for the opening to start. I open my coke, it pops and crackles as me and my family wait for it to start. I was wondering what the score would be. The date was the 9th September on Friday. I still couldn’t believe this was happening in Auckland.
Again the lights go dark but the crowd goes quiet and the lights flash on. There, in the middle of the soft, green field is the kapa Haka group shouting the Haka full power. They look at us with their fiery eyes and their incredible black face paint. Afterwards they have a great show with a boy scoring a try against real big rugby players.
Afterwards they shot multicoloured fire works into the sky shaped like kiwis. Once that was over the game began against Tonga and New Zealand. As they started Israel Dagg was the first to score which puts the All Blacks in the lead but for how long? Explaining the whole game would take forever so let’s skip to the end. The All Blacks won forty-one ten “Yeah!”
K.W.
Again the lights go dark but the crowd goes quiet and the lights flash on. There, in the middle of the soft, green field is the kapa Haka group shouting the Haka full power. They look at us with their fiery eyes and their incredible black face paint. Afterwards they have a great show with a boy scoring a try against real big rugby players.
Afterwards they shot multicoloured fire works into the sky shaped like kiwis. Once that was over the game began against Tonga and New Zealand. As they started Israel Dagg was the first to score which puts the All Blacks in the lead but for how long? Explaining the whole game would take forever so let’s skip to the end. The All Blacks won forty-one ten “Yeah!”
K.W.
Rugby World Cup
Recount of the RWC Opening Ceremony
On Friday 9 September tens of thousands of people gathered round to witness history. THE RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011! People from around the world came to one spot, Queen’s Wharf not just to see the brilliant firework display, but to see the first match of the RWC, NZ vs. Tonga.
The opening ceremony was brilliant as it kicked off at Party Central while at 4:30pm a fleet of 20 waka came into Queen’s Wharf. They performed a massive haka containing about 400 Maori warriors. This reporter says that the haka was spectacular and if you weren’t there you should have been there.
After the haka various things followed like John Key, the NZ prime minister, gave a super speech, a three person waka and a few singers like Dave Dobbyn and the fantabulous Fin Bro’s.
At 7:30 the fanciful fireworks brightened up the city with appealing non-stop fireworks. One person was questioned “How were the fireworks?” He replied with, “Probably the most outstanding firework disclosure seen in NZ! The display was as valuable as gold!”
Finally a French guy opened the RWC 10 minutes before the NZ vs. Tonga game and the game ended with NZ being the winner.
The RWC is now taking people from all 4 corners of the globe to one country. If you were there, what would you say?
By I.K.
On Friday 9 September tens of thousands of people gathered round to witness history. THE RUGBY WORLD CUP 2011! People from around the world came to one spot, Queen’s Wharf not just to see the brilliant firework display, but to see the first match of the RWC, NZ vs. Tonga.
The opening ceremony was brilliant as it kicked off at Party Central while at 4:30pm a fleet of 20 waka came into Queen’s Wharf. They performed a massive haka containing about 400 Maori warriors. This reporter says that the haka was spectacular and if you weren’t there you should have been there.
After the haka various things followed like John Key, the NZ prime minister, gave a super speech, a three person waka and a few singers like Dave Dobbyn and the fantabulous Fin Bro’s.
At 7:30 the fanciful fireworks brightened up the city with appealing non-stop fireworks. One person was questioned “How were the fireworks?” He replied with, “Probably the most outstanding firework disclosure seen in NZ! The display was as valuable as gold!”
Finally a French guy opened the RWC 10 minutes before the NZ vs. Tonga game and the game ended with NZ being the winner.
The RWC is now taking people from all 4 corners of the globe to one country. If you were there, what would you say?
By I.K.
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