Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock

by Gracia, Justus, Anabel, Lucia and Noah

Reykjavik,Iceland

 I have chosen Reykjavik as my destination. It is located in Europe and it is the world's most northern capital.

Just a small population live in Iceland which is famous for its hot springs, geysers and active volcanoes. Lava fields cover most of the land and hot water is pumped from under the ground to supply much of the country's heating and on top it is a spectacular show for tourists like me. By the way that's why I took my binoculars.

The most known geyser is called Geysir and its highest recorded gush of water was 100 meters. Unfortunately it rarely erupts any more. To help it erupt a ditch was dug, but later they added soap. This practice was against nature so they had to stop.

Luckily, bubbling pots and a very active smaller geyser nearby keep tourists coming to this area. It erupts every 4-8 minutes, shooting sizzling water into the air and spraying tourists who happen to be standing too close. Then you should go in the hot lagoon and have a warm bath!

On top you can enjoy Iceland's lovely nature:

Have a walk on the enormous lava fields...



or wait for the beautiful northern lights...

or visit the biggest glacier in of all Europe...

The only thing I don't like about Iceland is their whale hunting tradition. Iceland was forced to abandon the practice in 1989. Later it restarted with scientific whaling and in 2006 it announced a return to commercial hunts. Greenpeace is still against it.

Can You Solve It?

Justus brought in a book Can You Solve These? with lots of tricky maths questions. Here's one:

We used an online tool to try it out. (link) We made this:

We think it will carry on forever.
We also think that there are twice as many triangles as squares.
That's strange! An infinite number of squares, but twice as many triangles.

Can you... click on the link, and continue the pattern?

We make KenKens!

Justus has been making lots of KenKens. Here are some of them:

And here's some of by Samyak:

KenKens

Justus has made some KenKens:

Can you solve them?

The Air Bag Jump

While we went skiing , we saw an air bag
and I had 2 goes. It was awesome!!!
See the video above.

Here I am floating through the air

This is a air bag

La Grotte De Glace

La Grotte de Glace is a cave out of snow. It is filled with sculptures made out of ice and snow for example see the pictures below.

I wonder how much time it took to build thies amazing things? 

This is my favourite sculpture, because it looks funny.

Do you find it funny?

Click  HERE if you whant to see more ice or snow sculptures

Hopefully the white olive tree survives this snowy winterday

An olive tree is used to 30° in summer and dryness. It doesn't like to have wet feet, but my snowman likes his white coat.

 

                       Olaf is back!

the grumpiest snowman ever

Animals which are going to be extinct

Baby Leatherback Turtle

Across the globe are lots of animals becoming extinct.

Although efforts have been made to get people to realise that they are killing animals and there are efforts to re-build endangered populations, there are still nearly fifty animals in the U.S. that are in big danger of becoming extinct because of our activities we do, like hunting and fishing.

The leatherback turtle is the largest of all the living turtles and is the fourth-heaviest modern reptile
It´s got oily flesh which you can not see on the picture


If you want another animal click HERE if you whant more information.

A Goliath Tarantula

A magnificent digger

A furry venum giver

A coughing machine

A darkness lover

A cockroach killer

A bird eater

The king of the insects

Lemur

I swing through the humid air,
From creepers, and start it all
Over again until I‘m at my house.

I love to feel the fresh breeze,
I love this place except meat-eating
carnivores. I love to hear the rain fall off the
leaves. Me and my brother found an
ant hill and we started ataking it for food.

Riddles

What is full of holes and still holds water?

click here of you want to try and find out some more riddles.

If you can not find the answers on the website
here are some instructions:

1. click on the animal with the joke 
2. then hover the mouse over the word answer and then you get the answer.

24

24 is in the 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 8 , 12 times tables.

There are 24 hours in a day.


24 is 4!


A video has 24 pictures in a second


There is a famous series called 24.


24 zeros after a one makes a septillion.


24 is an even number and 24

is written in German like this: vierundzwanzig

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Making 28 from 2 0 1 5

In Secondary the students are playing a game where they use only the digits 2, 0, 1, and 5, in any order, with the operations +, -, x, ÷ to make numbers.

Like

20 + 15 = 35

or

102 - 5 = 97

Here's a hard challenge.

Can you make the number 28?

You might find that too hard, but I will give you some tips.
When you put an exclamation mark after a number it's called a factorial.

1! = 1
2! = 2 × 1 = 2
3! = 3 × 2 × 1 = 6
4! = 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 24

But the strange thing is, 0! = 1

Tip: a zero can be used as a one, like this 0!
The sum to make 28 is 14 + 14 = 28
You can make 14 as 15 - 1.

Chistmas

On Saturday 20th, the day after school, I had football training at school, but not with the sports trainer, Mr Lionel. Four days after that I was so excited, because it was Christmas day!

Here is a list of all my Christmas presents:

      Binoculars

      A football t-shirt and shorts

      A CD of Francis Drake

      Champions league football (Final)

      Football socks

      Bed sheet of a football team

      Headphones

      Tutahnkhamon CD

      Leonardo da Vinci CD

      Ice watch

A few days after Christmas I went to the cinema to watch the Penguins of Madagascar.

Kiwis

Two weeks ago my mum gave us a poster with a kiwi on it. It was cut in half and you could see the inside of the bird (a bit like this picture), which showed the inside of a kiwi fruit. It was a clever and funny poster and I really liked it.

I looked up the kiwi in the internet and found out that the kiwi is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwis are by far the smallest living flightless birds (others are like ostriches, emus and penguins). They lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world. Kiwis are already endangered. Today they try to protect them in national parks.

The kiwi is a national symbol of New Zealand and now you can click here to find out how the Kiwi  looks!

How many noodles....?

Try to find out about how many noddles are in the bag.

Or the bigger challenge for you would be:

Guess which colour is the most popular?

...and which colour is the least popular?

Press here to find the answer.

It works!

At the weekend Justus was thinking about polydron shapes. There was one he wasn't sure fitted with Euler's formula. So we had to make it and check:

F  + V  -  E = 2

31 +26 - 55 = 2

It works!