5 original similies

TASK:
Create 5 original similes
NO CLICHES!
As tired as a vehicle running with no gas.

As quick witted as a businessman understanding his boss.

As frightened as a child who is lost in a crowd.

Gently like a mother holding her child.

Grey like aluminium on our laptops.

Maths Week - Knowledge Last day

The 20 Dollar Question. 
One of these knots is not a knot.
Which knot is it ?
(a) Red
(b) Blue√
(c) Green

The 20 Dollar Question.
Two of these knots are not knots.
Which two are they?
(a) Red and blue.
(b) Blue and green.
(c) Red and green.

The 40 Dollar Question. 
This very famous clock is in
the St Pancras Railway
Station in London.
Lots of movies have this
clock in them.
What time is it ?
(a) 11 - 20
(b) 11 - 40 √
(c) 7 - 58

The 60 Dollar Question. 
The start of this century was a day
celebrated through-out the world.
Your parents will remember it !!
What day of the week was
January 1st, 2000 ?

Saturday.√

The 80 Dollar Question. 

What is this? It looks quite old

and is in the British Science

Museum.

Is it

(a) A toy.

(b) A money box.

(c) The first calculator.√

The 80 Dollar Question. 

At low tide the water comes

up as far as the fourth rung

on the ladder of the ship.

What happens at full tide?

The water 

(a) comes up to the top 

of the ladder.

(b) comes up to the

bottom of the ladder.

(c) stays on the fourth

rung of the ladder. √

Maths Week - Famous math people

The 20 Dollar Question.
This man was one of the
greatest mathematicians.
Calculate the age
Leonhard Euler was when
he died.
76 years old.

The 30 Dollar Question.
Pierre de Fermat was a very
gifted French mathematician.
How old was he when he died?

64 years old.

The 30 Dollar Question.

Sofia Kovalevskaya was an

outstanding mathematician who was a 

Russian and very popular.

She was born in Moscow in 1850 and

died in Stockholm in 1891.

How long did she live for?

41 years.

The 40 Dollar Question.

Sir Isaac Newton was

one of the greatest

mathematicians of

all time.

He was born in England

on Christmas day.

How long did he live

for? 

80 years

The 40 Dollar Question.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

was a German maths

person who became

famous for his work

in inventing calculus.

How old was he when he

died? 70 years old.

The 40 Dollar Question.

Sophie Germain lived all her life in

Paris. She was a brilliant

mathematician. A street in Paris is

named after her – and perhaps also

a football club!

Sophie lived from 1776 to 1831.

How long did she live for? 55 years.

The 50 Dollar Question.

Maria Agnesi was born in Italy in

1718. She was eldest in a family of

21 children! 

Maria was a very bright and

intelligent student. She could speak

5 different languages before she

was 9 years old !

She became an outstanding maths

person and was the first professor

of mathematics at a University.

Maria died in 1799.

How old was she? 81 years old.

The 50 Dollar Question.

Ernest Rutherford is New

Zealand’s greatest

scientist. He was awarded

the Noble Prize in

Chemistry in 1908. 

Lord Rutherford was also

a mathematician. While at

University in 1892 he

taught mathematics at

Christchurch Boys’ High School.

How many years did Ernest Rutherford live for ?

66 years.

Maths Week - Bathtub Maths

The 20 Dollar Question. 
The hot water tap when it is full-on can fill a bath in 7 minutes.
What fraction of the bath can it fill in 1 minute?
4 1/2

The 40 Dollar Question.
When the cold water tap is full-on it can the
fill the bath completely in 5 minutes.
Colin has just had a long hard run and
wants to have a cold-water bath.
How long will the cold water tap take to fill
3/5 of the bath for Colin? 3.15 mins

The 60 Dollar Question.
The cold water tap when it
is full-on can fill a bath in 5
minutes.
The hot water tap when it is
full-on can fill a bath in 7
minutes.
How long will it take both taps
to fill the bath when they are
both set to full-on.
Give you answer in minutes
and seconds.
3mins 15secs

The 80 Dollar Question.
When the bath is full its volume is 1 cubic
metres. Archi is a person with a volume of
0.08 cubic metres.
He carefully jumps into the bath.
How much water will spill over the side of
the bath!
Give your answer in cubic metres.

1.16 cubic metres

The 100 Dollar Question.
When the plug is open the bath will empty
completely in 4 minutes.
Now when Toni comes to have a bath the
cold water tap and the hot water tap are both
set to run full-on but unfortunately someone
has left the plug open and the water flows out
at the same time.
How long will it take to fill the bath now?
Give you answer in minutes and seconds.

16mins 35secs

Maths Week - The 300 Dollar Question

This week is maths week and we have to solve an equation every day. Today is 2 10s for a five. Here is the skit that we have to solve out.

Skit:
Abbott: Have you got two tens for a five?
Costello: Just so happen to have it.
Lou gives Bud ten dollars and Bud gives Lou five
dollars.
Costello: Just a minute, just one minute!
Abbott: Something wrong?
Costello: Fifteen dollars just went south!
Abbott: What do you mean?
Costello: You gave me a lot of your fast talk, you said 'do you have
two tens for a five' and I gave you two tens for a five.
Abbott: Just a minute, are you accusing me of cheating?
Costello: No, but you got two tens for a five.
Abbott: Alright here's your five now gimme back my two tens.
Costello: Okay, that's better.
Bud gives Lou five dollars and Lou gives Bud ten dollars.
After a slight pause Lou realises he has been conned again.
Costello: What are you doing?
Abbott: What’s wrong now?Costello: Look Abbott, here's two tens gimme a five!
Abbott: Certainly.
Lou gives Bud ten dollars and Bud gives Lou five dollars.
Costello: HA HA HA HAAA!
You did it to me...
You did it to me again.
Abbott: Oh come on.

The 300 Dollar Question.
How much did Lou lose ? $20 x A=$45
Try to act it out with you friend. Use paper as money!
Maybe you can act it out as the famous Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
did!

Improving Bikes

Task:
List 10 ways you would like to improve bikes (bicycles) (These should be realistic improved features)

1. The seat is more comfortable when you sit on the seat for a long time.
2. Bag compartment.
3. GPS.
4. Rear view mirror.
5. Actual lights that turn on and off.
6. The bike has led lights so that at night you can see the bike.
7. Tyres that don't flatten or brake.
8. Automatic gears.
9. Brakes that always work.
10. Water bottle socket.

New Coke lids

Coke has designed 16 new bottle caps which mean that people can reuse coke bottles for lots of different purposes.

Coca Cola teamed up with award-winning ad agency Ogilvy & Mather China on a new “2nd Lives” campaign and created 16 red screw-on caps that transform the otherwise-useless left-over plastic bottle into something creative, fun and usable. This environmentally friendly campaign launched in Vietnam, where 40,000 free caps will be given away when purchasing the iconic soda drink.

DO NOT CHEAT BY LOOKING AT THE INTERNET!

Try to guess what the 16 changed bottle caps are: 

Clue for 1 bottle cap to get you on the road: it’s round, translucent and pops.

My guess:

1. Spray pump √
2. Dummy√
3. Water gun√
4. Weights√
5. bubble blower√
6. Water bottle lids x
7. Coffee plunger x
8. Balloon blower x
9. Bath plug x

Actual 16:

1. Water gun
2. Pen
3. Pencil sharpener
4. Baby shaker
5. Pump spray
6. Soap cap
7. Weights
8. Light
9. Saucer
10. Salt and pepper cap
11. Bubble blower
12. Drip sauce bottle
13. Soy bottle cap 

Child Safety Handbook Questions

1. What edition of the Child Safety Handbook is this?
40

2. Where does the information in the CSH come from? 
900º NZ

3. What is a disclaimer and why is there a disclaimer in the CSH? 
A disclaimer is information saying that if they do something wrong to not blame it on them and they put it in this book because the book tells you important information.

4. What are 3 medical conditions which can develop as a result of being overweight in childhood?
- Diabetes
- High Blood pressure
- Cholesterol

5. What is the recommendation for 
- television? Limit TV watching no more than 2 hours a day
- rewards for good behaviour? You can have healthy treats, than sweets.
- number of meals and snacks per day?
- exercise?
- salt?
- milk? Have milk and water not soft drinks
- soft drinks? Try avoid soft drinks try have milk and water.

Picture book and movie facts.

1. Where do Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet and Kanga live?
He lived in 100 acre wood. √
2. What country is Dracula’s castle found?
It can be found in Romania and it is called the Bran Castle. √
3. Tin Tin’s friend Captain Haddock lived in what house?
He lived in Marlinspike Hall. √
4. Huckleberry Finn travelled down what river?
Mississippi River √
5. Where did Paddington Bear come from?
The Paddington Bear came from England, London. X
6. The Scarlett Pimpernell was set where and when?
It was set in the UK year 1905. √
7. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson was set where?
It was set in Scotland in 1751.√
8. In The Cay, 11 year old Phillip Enright’s boat leaves from where before it is torpedoed?
Curacao.√
9. In what city does Black Beauty pull a taxicab?
It happened in Victorian London.√
10. Where was Tarzan raised?
He was raised in the African Jungles.√
11. Where was James Biggleworth otherwise known as Biggles born?
In India May 1899√
12. Where does 7 year old Sara Crewe from the Little Princess story go to school?
Minchins Seminary for Girls in New York.√
13. Which country does Lemuel Gulliver wash ashore on his first voyage after being 
shipwrecked? Lillipot.√

14. What country does a family who were shipwrecked come from? Switzerland √
Their names were father: Willian, mother: Elizabeth, and children Fritz, Ernest, Jack and Franz

15. In Hans Christian Andersen’s story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” where was the emporer when a child said “but he isn’t wearing anything at all!”

16. In Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist where does Oliver spend his early years picking and weaving oakum? 

17. In the “Little House in the Big Woods” the first of the Little House on the Prairie series, where is the Ingall’s family home? 

18. What city is Maurice Gee’s Under the Mountain set?

19. What is the title of Lynley Dodd’s book about a bossy warthog?

20. In what countries did the group in Journey to the Centre of hte Earth go underground and then emerge?

Weird popular foods around the world

Here are some weird foods I found around the internet.


Urine-soaked eggs:

They use the urine from virgin boys in hospitals and leave it overnight before it is soaked with the eggs. Apparently it is really good for you because it defends radiant energy and fend of illness. This piece of food comes from China.







Penis Fish:

These are actually spoon worms and they are actually famous in Korea. They call it penis fish because it is served raw and has salt in it.