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For those of you who would like a challenge and a quirky way to record your holidays for your own blogs, try the following.

• Write 10 things you DIDN’T do on your holidays
• Write a senses poem about your holidays - 3 things for each sense
• Write some sentences using the following sorts of adjectives - the smelliest thing, happiest, saddest, yummiest, scariest, most boring, funniest, most exciting thing etc.

See how well you watched the DVD. You may use some of this information in your movie review which is due this week. Good luck.

Another challenge. Write one or two sentences which indicates you know which word to use and when. Remember the hint - if can bring something - you brought it.

Ms Murnane brought Storm in to visit us. She bought a nice, new cage for him to travel in.

You guessed it. I invite you to use the words to, too and two, in a couple of sentences. I suggest you hop to it quickly and write two sentences for me, before it’s too late.

Well technokids, those of you who attempted this quiz noticed that each of the words contained either double letters or letters which appeared twice, and Spacemonkey,  Skippy  and Luigi noticed that if you removed the first letter, the word could be read forwards or backwards (which is a palindrome).

BUT, nobody actually got the actual answer which was, if you remove the first letter of each word and put it at the end of the word, the word then read the same backwards, as it had forwards. Very tricky Mrs McCartney. Better luck with next week’s challenge kiddos.

This week, I invite you to accept a long term challenge.

• I would like you all to take one photo, each week, for the rest of the year, and paste it into your writing journals.
• Surprise, surprise - now I want you to write something about the photo.
• It may be captions, speech bubbles, poetry, descriptions, your thoughts, a letter, a list, an advertisement, I wonder… etc.
• You may wish to take a photo of the same thing each week (if there is the possibility of being able to notice change eg. a baby or a tree etc) or something interesting that you see quite randomly.
• Whatever you photograph, it must be inspirational to you - so that you can write something about it.
• Add the photo and your written response, to your blog.
• I will take part in this process as well. Why don’t you encourage mum and dad to do it as well. They could paste their photos in your writing journal, or better still, create a journal of their own.
• I’m excited by this. I hope you are too. See my photo a week on my teacher blog at

http://margm.globalteacher.org.au/category/a-photo-a-week/

• Good luck.

In the comments section, write about your week in a sentence. My week in a sentence might be:

I had an exciting time watching children develop some great ideas for their projects.

Parents and friends are invited to write a sentence as well.

Word Puzzle
Mrs McCartney sent me this very cool word puzzle for our very smart technokids.  It is tricky, but there is a logical answer.  See if you can figure out what these words have in common. When you have done it, post your reply in the comments. Good luck. I will post the answer next week.
1 Banana
2 Dresser
3 Grammar
4 Potato
5 Revive
6 Uneven
7 Assess