Riddle No. 9 July 1, 2008
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Hi everybody!
Congratulations to Anand and Naomi who both got it right! The answer was that you put your lock on the package and send it. Then your friend puts their own lock on the package ans sends it back. After that, you remove your lock and send the package back to your friend and then they can remove their lock and open the package! Her coomes the next riddle!
Carol is travelling by ship from south of the equator to the north.
She has a nice little second class cabin which has a bathroom, but no window.
Carol has neither compass nor other instruments.
Yet, without leaving her room or talking with anyone, Carol knew exactly when the ship crossed the equator.
How did she know? Hope it’s not too hard or not too easy!
Good luck!
Where The Whales Sing June 30, 2008
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Hi everybody!
Our class has been reading a book called “Where The Whales Sing”. We have also been writing a small summary on each chapter of the book. Below is what I have written about the book.
Chapter 1:- Adrift
Claire had been thinking for days that she wanted whale-watching for humpback whales with her father on a boat. Finally, she got her wish. About 10 minutes on the boat, a fierce storm broke out. The boat twisted and turned and finally capsized. Her father fell overboard. Claire kept calling but the boat drifted on.
Chapter 2:- Up from the Deep
Claire had had a lot of dreams but this one was unusual. In the dream, Claire had jumped overboard in order to go swimming. Claire had gone swimming with the dolphins. She woke up from the pain in her leg. Carelessly, she really did jump overboard. For a while, it was calm and peaceful. Then suddenly, she was confronted by a shark. Just as suddenly as the shark had come, a whale arrived and drove the shark away and pushed Claire to the surface.
Chapter 3:- Riding the whale
Claire felt the whales swimming underneath the boat. She kept on thinking about the whales until she couldn’t't stand it any longer. Claire jumped off but then suddenly she was confronted by an orca while she was with the humpbacks. They kept pushing her to towards the boat, the current and the whales.
Chapter 4:- A debt repaid
Claire jumped overboard for she had heard the humpbacks singing. She found the baby whale that she had met on her first underwater adventure. Suddenly, they ran into a pod of orca’s. The male orca recognised Claire. The orca’s saved her and put her in the boat. Somehow, she knew that she had to go where she was going.
Chapter 5:- Intruder
Claire had become very sick on her journey on the boat but had been supported by her cheery whale friends. After a while, she realized that she had been heading south and that she was way to far out to the south. She had seen ice flows and seals to confirm this. Suddenly she saw a . . . . . . . . . . . .
WHALING SHIP!
Well, there you go that’s five chapters of the book. There is one more chapter in “Where The Whales Sing”. I won’t tell you the title or it will spoil the surprise. We haven’t read the last chapter yet but when we do I’ll put up a post on what happened in that chapter :)
Bye!!!
Riddle No.8 June 21, 2008
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Hi everybody!
Congratulations to Momtahina, Nadine and Norma who all got it right! The answer was that it was the maid because there is no post on Sundays. Although there is post on Sunday’s in Australia. Here comes the next riddle:
Suppose you want to send in the mail a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is big enough to hold the object. The box has a locking ring which is large enough to have a lock attached and you have several locks with keys. However, your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. You cannot send the key in an unlocked box since it may be stolen or copied. How do you send the valuable object, locked, to your friend - so it may be opened by your friend?
Hope it’s not too hard or not too easy! Good luck 
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Riddle No. 7 June 16, 2008
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Hi everybody! Congratulations to Norma, Naomi and Mikhaila! They got it right! The answer was that there were two widows who each had a son. Then each widow married the son of the other widow. After that each couple had a daughter. Here comes the next riddle:
A man was found murdered one Sunday morning.
His wife immediately called the police.
The police questioned the wife and staff and was given these alibis:
The Wife said she was in bed reading a book.
The Cook claimed she was cooking breakfast.
The Gardener claimed he was planting seeds.
The Maid claimed she was getting the mail.
The Butler claimed he was polishing the silver.The police instantly arrested the murdered. Who did it and how did they know?
Hope it’s not too hard or not too easy!
Riddle No. 6 June 4, 2008
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Hi everybody!
It’s time again to announce who won the last riddle, and again, it was…… NAOMI! Oh my god, she is just fanatstic at riddles. Sorry Nadine that you didn’t get the meaning of the riddle. Anyway, time for the next riddle. Hope it’s not too hard or not too easy. Here it goes:
Two grandmothers, with their two granddaughters;
Two husbands, with their two wives;
Two fathers, with their two daughters;
Two mothers, with their two sons;
Two maidens, with their two mothers;
Two sisters, with their two brothers;
Yet only six in all lie buried here;
All born legitimate, from incest clear
How is this possible?
Good luck!
RMS Titanic - the sinking sadness :( June 1, 2008
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Hi!
This term our class is doing the subject, well, anything to do with the sea. For example, ships, creatures, shipwrecks, actual sea’s, nature under the sea and many, many more subjects to do with the sea. I have chosen the shipwreck, RMS Titanic. Here is some information on the Titanic.
RMS Titanic was an Olympic-class passenger liner owned by the White Star Line and built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard. On the night of 14 April 1912, during her maiden voyage, Titanic struck an iceberg, and sank two hours and forty minutes later in early 15 April 1912. At the time of her launching in 1912, she was the largest passenger steamship in the world.The sinking resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, ranking it as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most infamous. The Titanic used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and was popularly believed to be “unsinkable”. It was a great shock to many that despite the advanced technology and experienced crew, the Titanic still sank with a great loss of life.
On the night of Sunday, 14 April, the temperature had dropped to near freezing and the ocean was absolutely calm. There was no moon and the sky was clear. Captain Smith, in response to iceberg warnings received via wireless over the last few days, altered the Titanic’s course slightly to the south. That Sunday at 1:45 PM, a message from the steamer Amerika warned that large icebergs lay in the Titanic’s path, but inexplicably, the warning was never relayed to the bridge. Later that evening, another report of numerous large icebergs, this time from the Mesaba, also failed to reach the bridge.At 11:40 PM while sailing south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, lookouts Fredrick Fleet and Reginald Lee spotted a large iceberg directly ahead of the ship. Fleet sounded the ship’s bell three times and telephoned the bridge exclaiming, “Iceberg, right ahead!” First Officer Murdoch ordered an abrupt turn to port (left) and full speed astern, which stopped and then reversed the ship’s engines. A collision was inevitable and the iceberg brushed the ship’s starboard (right) side, buckling the hull in several places and popping out rivets below the waterline over a length of 300 ft (91 m). As seawater filled the forward compartments, the watertight doors shut. However, while the ship could stay afloat with four flooded compartments, five were filling with water. The five water-filled compartments weighed down the ship so that the tops of the forward watertight bulkheads fell below the ship’s waterline, allowing water to pour into additional compartments. Captain Smith, alerted by the jolt of the impact, arrived on the bridge and ordered a full stop. Following an inspection by the ship’s officers and Thomas Andrews, and shortly after midnight on 15 April, lifeboats were ordered to be readied and a distress call sent out.The Titanic carried 20 lifeboats with a total capacity of 1,178 persons. While not enough to hold all of the passengers and crew, the Titanic carried more boats than required by the British Board of Regulations. At the time, the number of lifeboats required was determined by a ship’s gross register tonnage, rather than her human capacity.The Titanic showed no outward signs of being in imminent danger, and passengers were reluctant to leave the apparent safety of the ship to board small lifeboats. As a result, most of the boats were launched partially empty; one boat meant to hold 40 people left the Titanic with only 12 people on board. With “Women and children first” the imperative for loading lifeboats, Second Officer Lightoller, who was loading boats on the port side, allowed men to board only if oarsmen were needed, even if there was room. First Officer Murdoch, who was loading boats on the starboard side, let men on board if women were absent. As the ship’s list increased people started to become nervous, and some lifeboats began leaving fully loaded. By 2:05 AM, the entire bow was under water, and all the lifeboats, save for two, had been launched.Around 2:10 AM, the stern rose out of the water exposing the propellers, and by 2:17 the waterline had reached the boat deck. The last two lifeboats floated off the deck, one upside down, the other half filled with water. Shortly afterwards, the forward funnel collapsed, crushing part of the bridge and people in the water. On deck, people were scrambling towards the stern or jumping overboard in hopes of reaching a lifeboat. The ship’s stern slowly rose into the air, and everything not secured crashed towards the water. While the stern rose the electrical system finally failed and the lights went out. Shortly afterwards, the stress on the hull caused Titanic to break apart between the last two funnels, and the bow went completely under. The stern righted itself slightly and then rose vertically. After a few moments, at 2:20 AM, this too sank into the ocean.Of a total of 2,223 people, only 706 survived; 1,517 perished. The majority of deaths were caused by hypothermia in the 28 °F (−2 °C) water. Only two of the 18 launched lifeboats rescued people after the ship sank. Lifeboat 4 was close by and picked up five people, two of whom later died. Close to an hour later lifeboat 14 went back and rescued four people, one of whom died afterwards. Other people managed to climb onto the lifeboats that floated off the deck. There were some arguments in some of the other lifeboats about going back, but many survivors were afraid of being swamped by people trying to climb into the lifeboat or getting pulled down by the suction from the sinking Titanic, though it turned out that there had been very little suction. In the disaster, first class men were four times as likely to survive as second class men, and twice as likely to survive as third class men. Nearly every first-class woman survived, compared to 86 percent of those in second class and less than half of those in third class. As the ship fell into the depths, the two sections behaved very differently. The streamlined bow planed off approximately 2,000 feet (609 m) below the surface and slowed somewhat, landing relatively gently. The stern, however, plunged violently to the ocean floor, the hull being torn apart along the way from massive implosions caused by compression of the air still trapped inside. The stern smashed into the bottom at considerable speed, grinding the hull deep into the silt.
Well, there you go. There’s what I’ve found out. Sorry it’s so long!
Information from Wikipedia
Debate No. 1 for Belmore South! May 29, 2008
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Hi everybody!
Today (29th May 2008), we had our first debate of the year for Belmore South. It was against Campsie, (not very far from us), and the topic was that Earth Hour is a waste of time. We were saying it WASN’T a waste of time, and guess what….. WE WON!!!!
Even though we were all above the time limit we still had very good arguments and we had very good rebuttals.
In this first debate it was: 1st speaker, me; 2nd speaker, Naomi; 3rd speaker, Ramiz; and team advisor, Celia. At Belmore South we usually have 2 extra people in the debating team but we haven’t found out who those two people are yet.
Hope we do as well as we did in this debate in our upcoming debates.
Riddle No. 5 May 29, 2008
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Hi everybody!!
Woo hoo Naomi! She got it right, AGAIN. The answer was that the lady died of child birth and the stranger was the baby. Here is the next riddle. As alwasy, I hope it’s not too easy or not too hard.
What seven letters did Old Mother Hubbard say when she opened her cupboard?
Good luck!
Riddle No. 4 May 28, 2008
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Hi!
Go Naomi! She got it right! It was that they were both someones best friend. Here comes the next riddle:
A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made sure nobody was in the car, rolled all the windows up, and locked all of the sedan’s doors. He went off, but when he came back, his wife was dead, and there was a stranger in the car. No physical damage was done to the car, so how did the stranger get in?
Hope it is not too hard.
Good luck!
NAPLAN Tests Finally Over!!! May 16, 2008
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Hi everybody!
Whew! The NAPLAN tests are finally over. The NAPLAN tests were actually called the Basic Skills Tests in the past years. But this year the names been changed to the NAPLAN tests. NAPLAN stands for National Assessments Programs Language And Numearcy. For the past week, we have been doing our tests. The year 3 and 5 tests are the ones that really count but the year 6 tests still count towards their highschool selection.
We had numeracy, language, reading and writing tasks. The writing task was to be about something that was found. My story was about a 15 year old girl called Sarah. She found a instuction sheet leading to the House Of DOOM. When she got inside she was captured and was killed. Her sister Jane found the instruction sheet and even though she followed the instructions she could never find the House Of DOOM.
Still, some of the tests were a bit hard but some were really easy.
But still, everyone is happy about the NAPLAN tests being over. Even the teachers! YAY!
I’ll write later. Bye!
