Choose your favourite pic by replying and writing which number (the top one is Number 1, the last Number 10 so you will have to count them!)

Go http://visualfractions.com/FindGrampy.html and try to find Grampy. After giving that a try, go to http://visualfractions.com/FindGrammy.html and try to find Grammy (who is better at hiding). 

Once you have completed both, go to http://visualfractions.com/FindGrampstrict.html and try to find Grampy by using the LOWEST TERMS (for example 2/4 has the lowest term of 1/2)

I think I’ve fixed all the log ins. Please check for me by posting a reply for me to this message.

Post here your BEST personification sentences as a reply to this post. Try to use a unique sentence that is unlike anyone else’s.

Go to this site and help Grampy make cookies. You need to work out the best way to put the fractions into the circle to make the biscuits.  

Head over to Edhead’s website and complete the activities where you have to find the simple machines in the house. If you finish, check out the more complex machines in the barn.

Go to the Viking Magic website and check out what’s there. Try out the quiz section and see how many questions you get right.

Felix begins to book in an orphanage. What reasons do you think there was behind him ending there? What motivations might there have been for his parents to send him there?

Foodscapes are a unique way of looking at landscapes. by clicking on “Foodscapes” you will open a PowerPoint that shows some wonderful scenery in a new way!

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Check out the trailer for the new Despereaux movie here.

Write a comment about your reactions to it. Is it what you imagined? How is it different to the book? Would you go and see it when it is released?

First off, go to this site and try to tessellate the lizards!

Then go to here and scramble the puzzle pieces before trying to solve it.

Finally go this site and  have a play around with what crazy tessellations you can create with the program.

Your task is to keep a record of connections between the book and 

• your life
• the world
• other texts

Peter falls into another world that he never knew existed. Can you name any other books, movies or plays that feature characters leaving reality and entering a fantasy world? Most correct answers wins!

Your task for the Horrible Histories books is to create your own fictional (made up) Horrible Histories for Boroondara Park Primary School. You can make it into a little book complete with front cover and illustrations. The book should be written in the funny way that the Horrible Histories are written. You should imagine that you are writing about the school as if it is in the past. An example may be about what the students used the bottom oval for, or maybe some legends about the smell from the boys’ toilet.

Follow this link to create tessellations with Microsoft paint. Select the middle option (Freeform). Once done save your work in your folder and if you know how, try to post the picture to the blog!

I am now opening up the next batch of choose your own adventure up to anyone (except Emily). If you want to, write one of the next two stories based on Emily’s story and I’ll put it up. Remember it needs to end with a choice between two ways to go next so someone else can continue it! Post your stories here asa comment.

Please go to these sites in order - 

Deal or No Deal and complete this worksheet (paste in your book when done)

Then do these websites using this 08629645 as the username and piano1 as the password -

Dice Duel, Fair or Unfair? 

Airport Addition

Bartlett goes on a long adventure throughout this book. Your task is to create a map or graph that visually displays his journey. You need to communicate the following 

• Where did he go?
• Why did he go there?
• Who did he go with?
• How did he get there?
• How did people feel about the journey or event?

 With a partner you have to create My Place entries for the two missing years - 1998 and 2008. You will have to consider a number of things - how you link it with pages from the book (which characters, locations, events are still around in 1998 and 2008), what stays the same and what changes. You need to create text, a map and pictures. One entry for each person would be fair.