Homework Week Three

Congratulations Room One, on the whole homework was completed beautifully last week. I appreciated reading your research and most importantly your own opinions. It takes an extra bit of effort to summon up your own thoughts on things sometimes.

I was also pleased to see the books that have been read at home. We have some real book worms in Room One.

This week our times table focus is 9x.

A famous New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield once said “To be alive and to be a ‘writer’… there is nothing like it.”
What did she mean by this?

When Katherine was a girl there were no computers, televisions or cell phones. Families would make their own entertainment. Word games were popular. Here’s a word game from last century. See if you can solve it for Word Study. In the following passage there are 12 hidden birds spelt backwards. I will show the first one ‘canary’ in italics in the first line.

Hidden Birds

When Mary ran across our new orchard in such a hasty manner we all wondered why she did so; but her cousin Victor rapped her knuckles, for which Dick cudgelled him soundly. ‘Stop!’ cried Jane. ‘How can you?’ Of all ugly fellows, I declare you are the worst!’ ‘I call this a lark.’ Ralph exclaimed, laughing heartily. ‘You would not laugh if you had such a blow or rap!’ said Mary, with the tears in her eyes. ‘Can’t you see that I weep?’ ‘Never mind’, interrupted Ellen, archly. ‘Let’s all kiss and be friends.’

Did you get them all? Now it’s your turn to find or create a word challenge.