Homework Week 8

Hi all,

Apologies for last week, I had a family member unwell and needed to go to Palmy North. 

Spelling words and Reading Mileage work will be sent home Tuesday :)

Wairarapa Swimming - Evening of Thursday 2nd April: Notes will come out as soon as Mrs Draper has collated information. As this is an evening event, transport is the responsibility of the family, though car pooling makes sense ...:)

CAMP FUNDRAISING MEETING - This Thursday 7pm at Circus...

All parents are asked to attend this meeting so that we can discuss raising funds for our camp. In total, the camp costs about $20-$22k, with each child being responsible for paying around $400. You have 5 months in which to raise the funds to pay for your child's camp. This will be the meeting to plan how we are all going to go about doing it.

Weekly Quiz Questions...

KIWI KWIZ 2009   

       WEEK 8

 

Question One: What did a cleaner at Auckland Airport find in an aeroplane’s rubbish bin last Thursday?

a)     Enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb

b)    A briefcase full of one hundred dollar bills

c)     Ten poisonous snakes

d)    A newborn baby 

 

Question Two: For winning the 2009 New Zealand Vegemite Spelling Bee, Christopher Jury of Hamilton Boys High School gets..?

a)    one thousand tubs of vegemite and six hundred loaves of bread

b)    two years off school and a walk-on part in Shortland Street

c)    the chance to compete in a spelling bee in the U.S.A. and three thousand dollars worth of dictionaries

d)    a trip around the world and the opportunity to be Prime Minister of New Zealand for one day

 

Question Three: Which New Zealand city is known as ‘The Edinburgh of the South’?

a)    Nelson

b)    Dunedin

c)    Wellington

d)    New Plymouth

 

Question Four: What is unique about one of the models that appeared at the recent Tokyofashion show?

a)    She is seventy two years old

b)    She designs her own outfits

c)    She is seven-feet tall

d)    She is a robot

 

Question Five:  Taste buds are arranged into five groups, including..?

a)   spicy, fizzy, bitter and sour

b)   hot, cold, bitter and sour

c)   salty, sweet, bitter and sour

d)   Eastern, Western, bitter and sour

 

Question Six: What sparked a Tsunami warning for New Zealand last week?

a)    An earthquake near Tonga

b)    The fallout from the global recession

c)    The collapse of an iceberg in Antarctica

d)    A massive whale stranding near the Equator                                                                                                                 

 

Question Seven: Where does ‘Today’ come before ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Tomorrow’?

a)    Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory

b)    Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

c)    The Oxford English Dictionary

d)    The Wonderful World of Disney

 

Question Eight: Complete the proverb, ‘People in glass houses..?

a)   should wear clothes’

b)   should buy curtains’

c)   shouldn’t complain about the weather’

d)   shouldn’t throw stones’

 

Question Nine: Who named more than twenty cities after himself?

a)    Alexander the Great

b)    George Washington

c)    Donald Trump

d)    Robert Mugabe

 

Question Ten: Which creature’s name comes from the Maori word for ‘The God of Ugly Things’?

a)    The Tuatara

b)    The Kangaroo

c)    The Takahe

d)    The Weta