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Life and Living

Quiz – The Toy Edition

April 10, 2012 Babies

Getting back to the roots of this blog, looking at the things little ones love. What is the best sort of mobile for newborns? How do spinning tops work? Ancient toys have been found in India and Rome, what types of toys are they? Have you ever successfully got one of those cars on race [...]

Gondwana

April 9, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Quick quiz – do you think Australia’s jungles are more like the jungles of Indonesia (directly north) or the jungles of India (several islands away)? Seeing as there’s no point in asking a question with an obvious answer, you probably got it right by saying India, even if you have no idea why or how. The [...]

Easter Answers

April 6, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Happy Easter, or whatever flavour of holiday you are enjoying today. At least, in Australia everyone is enjoying a holiday, plus lots of chocolate. Here are this week’s answers, questions here. 1. Full Moons are the moon’s daytime facing towards us. The moon rotates and has a day just like ours, but it is [...]

Hoop Surveys

April 5, 2012 Activities

The last time we did this type of thing we were outside with cameras, the whole yard was our canvas and we were skimming over the top, picking the highlights. This week we did the opposite – pulled it back to a piece of ivory two inches on a side, on which we worked with [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Easter

April 4, 2012 Activities

I thought I’d look at Easters past. Last year we made home made paper Easter baskets with seeds embedded then gave them to big girl’s school friends. We dyed eggs with petals and cabbage. They were completely different to using food colouring. The Easter Chicken was a collage of petals. And the year before that we made paper [...]

Movie Answers

March 27, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Sorry about the delay, we were without power for a couple of days last week, apparently a bird took out a whole transformer. The girls enjoyed the extra excuse to have takeaway While I catch up and rearrange, here are last week’s answers in place of this week’s quiz. 1. The Kessel Run is right [...]

Kid Question: Why do we all have different voices?

March 26, 2012 Energy and Change

Our voices work the same as an instrument like a saxophone. Air comes from our lungs then through our voicebox, or larynx, in our neck like the reed on the saxophone mouthpiece. Next it goes out through our mouth like the pipe of the saxophone. The sound depends on the shape of the instrument that [...]

Quiz – The Movie Edition

March 20, 2012 Earth and Beyond

Some of these are old, because I haven’t watched a new movie in about 6 years. Having kids in a remote town will do that to you. And you may just find some other reasons I don’t do well with movies. If the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in less that 12 parsecs, what [...]

Paragon of Animals?

March 19, 2012 General science

We fascinate ourselves, we want to know all about us. But we have a blind spot, an assumption that we must be the best. There’s something to back this up – after all, we dominate an entire planet and have reached beyond. Surely this means we are the pinnacle of creation? The topmost twig of [...]

Dinosaur Answers

March 16, 2012 Life and Living

Do you know lots about dinosaurs? Close your eyes and click back for the questions. 1. Dinosaurs first developed on the supercontinent Pangaea during the Triassic. The most obvious consequence of this is that there was originally one single type of dinosaur fauna because they were not geographically isolated. Remember that dinosaurs lasted for [...]