Blogs @ Egglescliffe

A number of 'lateral thinking' riddles this week. You don't need to solve them all - just post answers for the ones you think you can figure out.

1) When you see geese flying in a V formation, why is it that one leg of the V is longer than the other?
2) Why are there so many Smiths in the telephone directory?
3) What is E.T. short for?
4) Where do you find a no-legged dog?
5) Approximately how many house bricks does it take to complete a brick house in England?
6) How do you stop a bull from charging?
7) What cheese is made backward?
8.) Take away my first letter; I remain the same. Now take away my fourth letter; I remain the same. Now take away my last letter; I remain the same. What am I?
9) If a white man threw a black stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?
10) How do you make a bandstand?

OK, so I'm all out of ideas for Thunks (suggestions on a postcard please). I'll still keep posting more of them as and when they occur to me, but to keep your brain muscles exercised in the meantime I have devised (well, borrowed) a series of puzzles and riddles.

Some are harder than others so feel free to post ideas and suggestions even if you can't spot the final answer.

So an easy one to start us off:

Three boxes are all labeled incorrectly, and you must get the labels right. The labels on the boxes read as follows:

[box 1] nails
[box 2] screws
[box 3] nails and screws

To gain the information you need to move the labels to the correct boxes, you may remove a single item from one of the boxes. You may not look into the boxes, nor pick them up and shake them, etc.

Can this be done? If so, how? If not, why not?

We set off from school just after midnight on Tuesday in the pouring rain. The journey to Bad Salzig takes about sixteen hours, but with rest breaks, a chance to stretch our legs on the ferry and lots of DVDs to watch it is bearable! Some found it fun to be watching movies or having a good laugh with friends during the night, others just slept!

We caught an early morning ferry and set off across France, Belgium and a little part of Holland before reaching Germany. The mood on the coach was lifted by a stop at services with a play area, and some welcome sunshine.

The view from the coach became much more scenic and finally we arrived at Bad Salzig.

Our hotel was on the main street of a small village, and everyone was soon settled into their rooms. Some of the boys seemed prepared for a long stay!

After tea we went for a walk around Bad Salzig, some phoned home then we relaxed in the hotel before an early night. Everyone was tired!
On thursday we were up early for breakfast and a drive to Boppard for a tour of the town on a small 'train', a little shopping and a trip up the side of the valley on a chair lift.

The chair lift was a bit scary (there were a few screams!) but the view was amazing!

Next was a boat trip to Koblenz. It started to rain, but the boat had plenty of room inside, and a cool slide to play on.

At Koblenz we walked into town, stopping where the Rhine and Mosel rivers meet for another group photograph.

We'd just reached the centre of Koblenz when it started to pour down! Everyone got into their groups and rushed into the shops. There were some bargains to be had, and some of the boys learned valuable lessons about shopping with girls.....

After tea back at the hotel we went for a walk up to a nearby field and played football or rounders, or just chilled with friends. Apologising in German was practised after one football went into someone's garden! Then back to the hotel where everyone was excited (or nervous!) about our trip to Phantasia-land next day.

The theme park took about 90 minutes to reach, but was worth the journey. This was most peoples favourite part of our time away, with some awesome rides and a hot sunny day. Some braved the amazing 'Black Mamba' or the scary 'Colorado', others got soaked on the 'River Quest' but everyone had a great time with lots of stories to tell. Some comments were,

"Phantasia-land was the best. We had a lot of fun, I've never had so much fun in my life!"

"Phantasia-land was a never ending thrill. My expectations were high, but the rides were higher!"

"It was really fun and exciting, and I went on my first ever rollercoaster!"

Back at the hotel, after a shower and tea and a little packing, it was time for the disco. Peter the coach driver had a great selection of music on his i-pod and became DJ for the night.

This was excellent, and everyone groaned when it was time to finish packing and go to bed.

Another early start saw us on our way home. The journey back seemed to last for ever, but a few DVDs and plenty of talking and laughing passed the time.

Finally, we were home! The coach got to Egglescliffe at 10:30pm and everyone went with their parents - tired, but happy - and with lots of stories to tell on Monday morning.

Great trip Mrs Fisher!

(...and thanks to Miss Blueitt for organising it.)

In ICT last week we made a spider diagram to describe a religion we had created ourselves. Our group (Caroline, Jamaal, Dani and I) decided to have our religion honouring Abe Simpson, with Homer as his prophet. Our religion is called the Homers.
We had to think of all of the things that a religion has - a holy book, clothes, certain foods, etc, and then we had to make a spider diagram at www.bubbl.us. Then we searched for pictures to do with our subject, which in this case was The Simpsons.

We are doing creating religion in ICT about what ever we wont so my group decided to do Kidysm.

In our religion we say that people have to become come kids and follow commands EG. what food and clothes we were etc.

My opinion is that this religion is good and will show other members of our class that kidysm is great.

In I.c.t today we created a religion, our group's is called Sportism. It is all about sport, we have a logo, certain clothes, certain food and a book that is like the bible.
We have to wear trackies and trainers and any kind of sport shirts. Our food is healthy with lots of fruit and vegetables, so we have lots of energy for the hours of sport we do.We have to do at least 2 hours of sport everyday. It was really hard to decide what factors would be in our religion. Here is a picture of our mindmap.

id map.

This is Mr Robinson testing out his new-found blogging skills!
Before he goes to Germany he must remember to feed his cat.

This is Fiver enjoying her tea!

hi this is my spot the differance we made it in last weeks it lesson it was really fun it was great try and make one if u want to but it it was a bit hard and i would so do it again

Last week we learned how to make spot the difference pictures, using macromedia fireworks. In this lesson we carried on with our spot the difference pictures. We also did this complicated thing where we exported our pictures. I found this lesson fun and i learned how to edit pretty quickly. i haven't done this in any other lesson but i hope we do this again.

today in IT we used fireworks to change and edit a photo to make them different. It was really fun and I enjoyed it,if i did t again i would make more changes and try and make it a lot harder for people to guess, i would like to do this again. Lets see if you can get the spot the difference from these two pictures!!!