Fables

Recommendation! "Squids will be squids" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

Can't remember who I told but anyway, nobody came to be read to on Tuesday
so we just spent the lunchtime waiting and reading sophisticated picutre books. This one is awesome. It's like, nonsensical adaptations of Aesop's Fables:

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rock, paper and scissors
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Rock, Paper and Scissors were assigned together to do the most important science project of the year.
Rock thought up the idea.
Paper researched and drew up graphs and illustrations.
Scissors was in charge of the presentation.

The idea wasn't very good, and they didn't work very hard at it, so they only got a C. All were very displeased.

"You should have presented it better," said Rock, hitting Scissors.
"You should have done more research," said Scissors, cutting Paper.
"You should have come up with a better idea," said Paper, covering Rock.

[moral: Rock, Paper and Scissors all say, "Shoot, it wasn't my fault".]

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Straw and Match
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It was the end of the summer holidays and Straw had nothing to do, so he decided to play with the one person he had been told never to play with.

"You wanna come and play checkers with me?"
"Okay," said Match, "I'll be red, I get to move first and for every move you make I get two."

"Never mind," said Straw, "What about ping-pong?"
"Okay," said Match, "I get the good bat, you stand over there, I get to serve first and you have to close one eye."

"Ummm.." said Straw, "Why don't we just watch some tv?"
"Okay," said Match, "I get the couch, you sit on the floor, I get the remote and we have to watch my favourite video."

"You know what?" said Straw. "I think I hear my mum calling."

[moral: Don't play with matches.]

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Termite, Ant and Echidna
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Termite and Ant had been best friends since they were little. They always played together and ate lunch together. Until the day that Echidna moved into the neighbourhood.

"Hi," said Echidna, "my name's Echidna. I'm from Australia."
"How exotic," said Ant.

"My family name is Tachyglossidae," said Echidna.
"Let's be best friends," said Ant.

And so Ant played with Echidna all morning and completely ignored Termite. When the time came for lunch, Ant took out his ham and cheese sandwich. Echidna slurped up a long stream of ants.

[moral: If you're going to ditch your best friend for a new one, you should know that Echidna is another name for Spiny Anteater.]



iono if you find that funny.
it's not word for word.
I find it funny though.

Calc test today was insane..
At the end, I had 6 minutes to do 3 pages..
and one of the questions was, "blah blah blah.... find d"
so I worked out that d = 1.68 cm (3sf)
and the next part of the question was sth like, "we have decided to assign d the value of 1.5cm..."

O_o
EXCUSE ME.
WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THAT WORK I JUST DID FOR YOU.

anyway,
didn't finish
another merit coming my way >.>