Using a Search Engine to Help you Solve Crossword Clues

We have recently been using a children’s newspaper, Firstnews, in our studies. The puzzle page has offered us the opportunity of investigating a range of strategies that help us to solve crossword puzzles. We have been using the Google search engine to search out information that might help us solve a given clue. I have [...]

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A Poem to help you spell

(M) reports…
We came up with a poem to help spell ould words.
First there’s an ”o” ,
Then there’s a ”u”,
Then we have ”ld”
I know that you would,
If you possibly could,
Learn it along with me!
(M’s friend J, who attends the local primary school, uses “Oh you lucky duck” to remember the “ould” spelling. Do let us know [...]

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Jokes of the Week

Doctor, Doctor I’ve got carrots growing out of my ears.
How on earth did that happen?
I don’t know… I planted cucumbers !
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Doctor,Doctor I feel like a bridge!
What’s come over you man?
2 cars and a bus.

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Investigating Blood

As part of our Human Body topic, we decided to look at some blood under our computer microscope. It can magnify up to 200x. Mum was the donor for today, but she says that enough is enough and her thumb is now a bit sore!

(M) and (A) then did some research.
(A) discovered that our blood [...]

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Book Review: Daisy Meadows’ Flora the Fancy Dress Fairy.

(A) looked at characters and setting for her review of this book from the Rainbow Magic series of stories by Daisy Meadows….
I thought that this story had horrid bad guys who made me feel shocked and worried. Who were the bad guys? Jack Frost and the goblins! They made mischief and they wanted to spoil [...]

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