Man’s First Ever Day
How many words can you think of that have the word ”man” hiding inside ? Example - demanding.
Creation Spellings !
Add the letters either C - R - E - A or C - R - E to complete the words.
creation
creativity
decree
crease
His and Her
How many words can you think of that contain the words “his” and “her” ?
© Jacqueline Richards 2007
Fridayman was a superb superhero, like, Spiderman (who did everything spidery), Fridayman did everything by Friday ! Monday to Friday, nine till five, Fridayman took a daily superhero sky dive. When all the other people in the world never quite got things done, Fridayman was always number one ! Fridayman got up so early, he had saved the universe before everyone else had even had breakfast. Most people took ten minutes to cook breakfast or tea, Fridayman fried his eggs, in less than three ! If on his way to work, on Monday, Fridayman came across a crook going beserk, Fridayman soon sorted him out … “Here comes Fridayman !” you could hear people shout. On Tuesday, people came from very continent just to watch him climb. If the super - terrestrials were approaching, Fridayman had scared them off by Thursday tea - time ! Most people had a weekly list to do - Fridayman had all his handyman jobs done by Wednesday at two. Up ! up ! up ! and away, Fridayman had fixed the broken taps by Saturday ! “Thank heavens for Fridayman !” you could hear people say. “Will he be appearing again today ?!”. Unfortunately, because in the super - terrestrial world, things always don’t work out right - sometimes, he only got things done by Thursday night. In fact, sometimes, he needed a bit of a kick take off in flight. Instead of being super - lunary, Fridayman, as a superhero, was occasionally super - loon - ery. If rainstorms made the road incredibly slippery - Fridayman’s escapades turned out to be quite frippery. All the damp drizzle made Fridayman’s hair frizzle … so catching baddies turned out to be no sizzle. On his way back from his round the world trip, passing over Nice, Fridayman once took a trip to Dumfries. Here he solved the issue of fried Scottish eggs … though he accidentally slipped in grease ! On his way back around the universe, he passed through Firth … and showed the world what he was really worth ! As he resolved the problems of global warming, Fridayman stopped the super - terrestrials from supersonic - storming. No problem, for Fridayman, was too great or small - a helping hand he gave to each and all ! If an old lady had a super - terrestrial cat stuck up a tree … Fridayman fetched it, though it meiouwed super - profusely. Fridayman quickly became a millionaire - he never had any cash, (no, that’s not what I mean), he flew at a million miles an hour through the air ! By the time Fridayman had arrived on Mars, he’d mapped out in an encyclopaedia every one of the stars. Fridayman ran as fast as a super - man can … then orbited through the hole in the ozone layer … without a supertanker, a car or a van. Thank heavens for Fridayman … who can do the super - jobs by Friday that no other man can.
Fridayman’s Frizby Game
Frizby the letter F - R - I into these words to complete the spellings.
__ __ __ able
__ __ __ and
__ __ __ ar
__ __ __ bble
__ __ __ candeau
__ __ __ casse
__ __ __ ction
__ __ __ end
__ __ __ eze
__ __ __ ed
__ __ __ ght
__ __ __ gid
__ __ __ gidarium
__ __ gorific
__ __ __ nge
__ __ __ sk
__ __ __ sket
__ __ __ sson
__ __ __ tter
__ __ __ zzle
__ __ __ es
__ __ __ th
__ __ __ itillary
__ __ __ ijole
Fridayman’s Frightfully Clever Maths Game
Hardly surprising that as a superhero, Fridayman, because he was born on Friday, had millions of maths homework, when everyone else had zero. Can you help Fridayman save the day - by solving these maths problems before the crooks get away ? Write a mathematical equation to show your working out to the following maths problems.
1. Every day of the week, Fridayman had 25 pots to super - wash - how many is that in total ?
2. When Fridayman super - brushed up around the super - universe, he collected two supersonic rockets every 20 minutes. How many is that from the entire universe, in a whole day ?
3. When Fridayman super - sky dived, he flew half way down to the planet in 2 minutes - how long did the entire journey take ?
4. Saving the universe in the supermarket, he span around the aisles. He knocked off 150 (25 %) of the cans of super baked beans - how many were there in total ?
5. Fridayman was so supercool, that he cooked for his tea, a super - dupery soup at a superheat of three hundred and three degrees. What was the difference in temperature between the soup and the bread he baked in the oven at 100 degrees ?
6. When he listened to the radio, Fridayman’s super - sonic sound waves could be heard a million kilometres away. If there were 100 soundwaves in 500 km, how many supersonic soundwaves were there in the entire universe ?
7. On his way to work on the superhighway, on Monday, Fridayman caught 8 crooks going beserk, how many crooks is that in one year ?
8. On Tuesday, 500 , 000 super - terrestrials came from every continent on Earth just to watch him climb. Find out how many continents on Earth there are, then calculate how many super - terrestrials arrived in total ?
9. When the 500 , 000 super - terrestrials were fast approaching, Fridayman scared them off by Thursday tea - time ! If he scared off 1 : 4,
a) How many super - terrestrials ran away ?
b) How many super - terrestrials were left ?
10. Most people had a weekly list to do - Fridayman had all his handyman jobs done by Wednesday at two. If there were 100 jobs from Monday morning at 8.00 a.m. and he worked for 8 hours every day, how long on average, did each task take ? Give your answer as a decimal and in minutes and seconds.
11. On Saturday, Fridayman had fixed 10% of the 200 broken taps - how many did he have left to fix ?
12. Fridayman normally flew at a speed of 250 km / hour, how fast did he travel with a supersonic kick to take off in super - flight, one - fifth faster ?
13. Rainstorms made the road incredibly slippery. Make a bar chart of the damp drizzle using the following damp data. Puddles (per hundred square km per universal planet in millions)
Mercury … Venus … Earth … Mars … Jupiter … Saturn … Uranus … Neptune … Pluto
4 8 10 15 30 45 50 60 65
14. Check your sorting technique - Fridayman’s hair frizzled on 3 days of the week. For the rest of the week, his hair was straight. Show this as a ratio, fraction, decimal and percentage.
15. When Fridayman was superhero helping an old lady to get her cat from being stuck up a tree … the cat meiouwed profusely. If Fridayman climbed four - fifths up a ladder, which was 25 m high, how much further did he have to climb to get to the top. Give your answer in cm and in m.
16. If Fridayman quickly became a million - air. Work out the triganometry angles that Fridayman flew around the universe from North to the planets shown in the picture above.
17. If Fridayman flew at a million miles an hour through the air, how long did it take him to fly to,
a) Mars, one hundred thousand miles away ?
b) Jupiter, ten million miles away ?
c) Saturn, one billion miles away ?
18. If on his epic superhero trip around the universe, Fridayman flew past all nine planets. Between every planet, there were 300 , 000 stars. How many stars were there in total in the universe ?
19. As Fridayman ran as fast as a man can, he flattened 4 lamp - posts in 5 km … how many lamp - posts were flattened on his way to Mars, one hundred thousand miles away ?
20. Then if Fridayman finally orbited through the hole in the ozone layer … spinning 15 times every 3 minutes, how many times did he spin in,
a) in one minute ? b) one hour ? c) in one week ? d) in one year ?
Yes Sir ! Absurd Superhero Spelling Game
Sur or sir ? which is the correct one to use ?
__ __ __ prise
__ __ __ e
__ __ __ charge
in __ __ __ ance
__ __ __ en
__ __ __ eness
__ __ __ ene
__ __ __ face
__ __ __ f
__ __ __ icate
__ __ __ factant
__ __ __ coat
__ __ __ base
ab __ __ __ d
__ __ __ loin
__ __ __ ly
__ __ __ feit
__ __ __ geon
__ __ __ ge
__ __ __ ficial
__ __ __ mise
__ __ __ mount
__ __ __ name
__ __ __ quedry
__ __ __ tout
__ __ __ round
__ __ __ realism
__ __ __ render
Fridayman’s Favourite Food … was of course fri - ed eggs ! Write a list of other foods that can be fri - ed on Fri - day by Fridayman.
© Jacqueline Richards 2007
Answers :
1. 25 x 7 = 175
2. 2(24 x 3) = 2,304
3. 2 x 2 = 4 mins
4. 150 x 5 = 600 cans
5. 303 - 100 = 203
6. 100 (1 000 000 / 500) = 200 , 000 soundwaves
7. 52 x 8 = 416
8. Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, America, North and South Poles : 500 , 000 x 7 = 3, 500 , 000
9. a) 500 , 000 / 4 = 125, 000 b) 500 , 000 - (500 , 000 / 4 = 125, 000) = 4, 875, 000
10. 60 (8 + 8 + 6) / 100 = 13.2 mins = 13 mins 12 secs
11. 200 - (200 / 100 x 10 = 20) = 180
12. 250 + (250 / 5 = 50) = 300 km / hour
13. -
14. 3 : 7 = 3 / 7 = 0.4285 = 42.85 %
15. a) 25 - 4 (25 / 5 = 5) = 20 = 5 m
b) 5 x 100 = 500 cm
16. -
17. a) 60 / (1, 000 , 000 / 100 , 000 = 10) = 6 mins ;
b) 1 x 10 = 10 hours ;
c) 1 000 000 000 000 / 1 000 000 = 10 hours
18. 9 x 300 , 000 = 2, 700 , 000 stars
19. a) 4 (100 , 000 / 5 = 20 , 000) = 80 , 000 lamp - posts
20. a) 15 / 3 = 5 spins b) 15 (60 / 3 = 20) = 300 spins c) 300 x 7 = 2, 100 spins d) 2, 100 x 52 = 109, 200 spins
Answers : friable ; friand ; friar ; fribble ; fricandeau ; fricasse ; friction ; friend ; frieze ; fried ; fright ; frigid ; frigidarium ; frigorific ; fringe ; frisk ; frisket ; frisson ; fritter ; frizzle ; fries ; firth ; fritillary ; frijole
Answers : surprise ; sire ; surcharge ; insurance ; siren ; sureness ; sirene ; surface ; surf ; suricate ; surfactant ; surcoat ; surbase ; absurd ; surloin ; surly ; surfeit ; surgeon ; surge ; surficial ; surmise ; surmount ; surname ; surquedry ; surtout ; surround ; surrealism ; surrender
Monday’s child is full of woe. Tuesday’s child has far to go …
1. If on Monday, I ate twice as many apples as I did on Tuesday, when I ate twelve, how many apples did I eat on Monday ?
2. On Tuesday, I turned on the radio and listened to the songs. But I only liked one fifth of the 70 songs being played - how many is that ?
3. On Wednesday, I went to a wedding. There were 150 guests, but only 0.2 arrived. How many is that ?
4. On Thursday, I baked a 200 cakes, but ate 20%. How many were left for the weekend ?
5. On Friday, I threw a frizby. It travelled at a speed of 2 km / minute. How long did it take to reach the other side of the park, 5 km away ?
6. On Saturday, I spent the morning sat on the patio. I picked 5 % of the 500 flowers in my garden - how many is that ?
7. On Sunday, I sunbathed for half of the day. How long is that ?
Sunday’s Sundae On A Sunny Day Quiz
Son or sun ? match the clues.
sunglasses Whitsun Sunday sundae sunshine sonata song sonnet son - in - law sonic sunset sundry suntan
the day after Saturday
a musical composition
a Christian religious festival
an ice - cream
heat and light
pertaining to sound
another word for a musical ballad
a short poem
the man married to your daughter
worn to shade your eyes
dusk - when the day ends
small different things
browning of the skin in the summer
Write as many words as you can think of containing the letters : Mo, Tu, We, Thu, Fri, Sat, Su.
© Jacqueline Richards 2007
Answers :
the day after Saturday - Sunday
a musical composition - sonata
a Christian religious festival - Whitsun
an ice - cream - sundae
heat and light - sunshine
pertaining to sound - sonic
another word for a musical ballad - song
a short poem - sonnet
the man married to your daughter - son - in - law
worn to shade your eyes - sunglasses
dusk - when the day ends - sunset
small different things - sundry
browning of the Sun - suntan
Answers : 1. 12 x 2 = 24
2. 70 / 5 = 14
3. 150 / 10 x 2 = 30
4. 200 / 100 x 20 = 40
5. 2.5 mins
6. 25
7. 12 hours
The grandfather clock was too tall for the shelf, so it stood on the floor by the door.
1. What percentage of the floor space did the grandfather clock occupy if it measured 25 cm wide x 25 cm long and the floor was 5 m x 5 m ?
2. The grandfather clock chimed once every 15 minutes. How often is that in 24 hours ?
3. Work out the face of the grandfather clock if it measured 15 cm across the diameter.
4. The grandfather clock’s pendulum was 3 / 5 ths the size of the height of the clock. If the grandfather clock was 2 m high, how long was the pendulum ?
5. Work out the volume of the grandfather clock if it measured 2 m high x 50 cm wide x 30 cm deep.
6. The grandfather clock was wound up every day for 3 minutes - how long did my Grandfather spend winding up the clock in one week ?
7. The time on the grandfather clock read 8 o’ clock in the morning. What time did it read after 5 hours ?
© Jacqueline Richards 2007
Answers :
1. (25 x 25 = 625) / (500 x 500 = 250, 000) = 0.0025 = 0.25%
2. 24 x 4 = 96
3. 3.14 x 7.5 x 7.5 = 176.625 sq cm
4. 200 / 5 x 3 = 120 cm
5. 200 x 50 x 30 = 300 , 000 cubic cm
6. 3 x 7 = 21 mins
7. 1 p.m.
When time stood still, there was no end to the week - Saturdays and Sundays simply disappeared. The clock stopped at one and the afternoon passed without anyone noticing … Before you could blink, it was Monday … then Thursday … then Friday. When time stood still, there were only minutes - no hours. The hands on the clock didn’t spin at all and the clock didn’t tick tock. No alarm bells - no chimes. The battery had gone flat in the clock and the days soon became months. By the end of the year - there had been no Easter, nor summer holidays. Just as January came to an end, May faded in (without even noticing February or March). As quick as you could blink, Christmas rolled into New Year. A whole century was written off into history, when time stood still. Even the millenium elapsed. When time stood still, the clock forgot to go round … so everyone remained aged twenty - one.
Write ten sentences with the word “time” in them …
Write ten sentences with the word “stood” in them …
Write ten sentences with the word “still” in them …
© Jacqueline Richards 2005
“Wakey, wakey, rise and shine !”, the cockerel crowed in the early morning, but it seemed that nothing could awake the animals in the farmyard. The alarm clock rang … and no - one jumped out bed. Thunder roared and lightening flashed, but it seemed that nothing could awake the farmyard animals from their slumber. In the barn, the cows mooed loudly - they hadn’t realised it was time for milking. Although the cockerel crowed loudly, even the chickens - who liked to get up before dawn with the other early birds, did not flutter a feather. Outside, the sound of the rain pelting down shook the tiles off the barn but all the cats did was roll over in the hay … purring smugly and licking it’s kittens to keep them warm. The farmyard animals snooozed on. “Wakey, wakey, rise and shine !”, the pigs snorted to get the piglets to the trough in time for breakfast … but the piglets only tweeked their tails … and rolled over in the mud. Lorries passed by on the road … and the postman knocked loudly, dropping off parcels and a pile of letters, but none of the farmyard animals batted an eyelid. The ducks in the pond just hid in the bullrushes of the farm’s duckpond. The dog barked “WOOF ! WOOF !”, but the hens stayed firmly on their nests - they had eggs to sit on so not even the dogs’ barks could stop them keeping them warm. Even the sheeps bleeting, “BAA ! BAA !”, could arouse not the farmyard animals, who carried on snoring until the late afternoon. “Wakey, wakey, rise and shine !”, the cockerel crowed in the early morning, but the whole farmyard stayed fast asleep.
© Jacqueline Richards 2005
When the time machine started ticking wrong, the whole universe ended up in a time warp. As the time machine malfunctioned, it left everyone in a huge spin. The seconds finger span around and the minutes hand went backwards. Night and day rolled into one. Before long, instead of afternoon following morning, night came after dawn, dusk came after breakfast and a whole hour had passed by before even blinking an eyelid. A spring sprang out of the time machine and alarm bells rang. A decade passed, people got younger instead of older and everyone had three birthday parties every year. Instead of being light years ahead, the millenium was a century ago and pre - historic man was born after the Egyptians. The time machine did not take long to spring a gas leak … and another two days disappeared. With a fortnight, a week passed by. Because the time machine desperately needed a bit of oil to work properly, it cogs and wheels soon became rusty as it cranked into action. As quick as a flash, the time machine made another day disappear and weeks rolled into years.
From Time To Time
If you had a magic time machine, would you travel into the future, or into the past - What would life be like ? Who would you meet ? What would you eat ? How would you travel ? Write a two page assignment on the subject of time travel.
How many words can you think of that include the word “time ? Example - lunchtime.
© Jacqueline Richards 2005
Tock the tick was a bopping bug. He wanted to go in search of the greatest one o’ clock, two o’ clock, three o’ clock rock around the clock. He gargled on moss sap to lubricate his vocal chords and went mussel building to walrus warm up, humming the tune to “Hickory Dickory Dock” - he forgot the words, though when the clock struck - do you know ? A quick crab crawl call to his other old mates in the rest of the reptile band - Beach Banjo, Violet the Violin, Cello & Clapperboard Claw Crab, Harry Harmonica, Dingo Drum and Super Star Starfish with whom he had spent a lot of time in the past surfing the waves with his chums. The starting whistle blew and so off he set - swinging on the seconds hand. The first twenty minutes were slow and steady at first, before the pendulum started to pick up speed and rock tock around the clock tickingly.
A Quick Quiz
How many seconds are in a minute ?
How many days are there in a year ?
How many months are there in a year ?
How many weeks are there in a year ?
How many minutes are there in an hour ?
How many days are there in a leap year ?
By one a.m., Tock the Tick was just gathering up speed. He hopped onto two o’ clock and slid down to the number three. A quarter of the way into his round the clock rock. To a rock ‘n’ roll tick tock beat, his cardiac rhythm continued. He took a tick tock train in first clock class to four o’ clock - a tea - stop. “One rock or two in your cocoa ? “, the perfectly ticking Cockney Clock host time - keeper with a timeless hourglass figure of Ye Olde English Grandfather Clock Coffee Pot Shop inquired as Tock hung up his umbrella in the Clock Cloakroom.
Ye Olde English Grandfather Clock Coffee Pot Shop Marine Menu
Past prawn clocktail
Previous shrimp salad
Weeks of winter warm worm soup
Saturday night spare ribs
Clock circular chops marinated a long time ago
A century of clock chicken in clock choux perennial pastry
Sundial Steak seasoned with spring and summer
Ages of noon and night poached salmon with annals of annual anchovies
Lifelong liver and onions flashed in the pan
Nine day wonder king prawn nuggets at the hop
Immortal insect plaice pasta in minced mullet minute mustard sauce
Outlasted oily mackerel with onion winter and autumn seasoning
Tick Tock tender tarragon turbot with rock ‘n’ roll roe relish
Tick Tock tuna in time tartar sauce with shake, rattle ‘n’ roll salt ‘n’ vinegar
Tick Tock trout and annual almonds with a let’s twist again lemon and lime sprinkle
Chutney Clock club sandwiches on chunks of clock bread and/or rock ‘n’ roll rolls
Hour after hour haddock with home made herring gravy
Future fried fish fingers with fillets of fresh peas
Caterpillar chrysalis and caviar clock crackers
Buddy Holly Bicentenary biscuits
Sunday salmon sundaes
Lemon and lime fish fool swimming in cream
Toffee tick tock truffles
Shoals of summer strawberry pudding
Monday melon mousse
Peach, pear and pineapple present praline
Fats Domino Jambalaya
Clock coffee and time tea with mollusc us mints
At various times, he nibbled on Clockwork orange cheesecake with clumps of clotted clock cream and chit - chatted tick - tockingly to the other clock customers. Tick tacked his souvenir train ticket into the album of his trip and scribbled a minute’s memo to Bango to get the strings repaired. Seconds seahorse later, Tock was off again on his tick tock trip. The inner cog of the clock clunked and clanked, clapped and clashed grindingly, as Tock the Tick clicked his way around the clock circuit in the direction of Clock Cathedral to meet clock clergy and pray for a safe tick tock trip in Clock cloisters and World Without End. Amen. At the moment he climbed Clock circumvent spiral he viewed the cliffs and eternal evergreens. In the clear cathedral air, the clock choristers chorally chipped Cicero clock classic “Come O’ Ye Faithful Fish” as well as “Crown the Clock with Many Crowns” and the chrome civic church bell chimed. He remembered he had bought tick tock choc chip and cinnamon cookies so he fed the canary cocks that were clicking and clocking on the Clock Cathedral Churchyard cobbles. He cast a chuck - farthing in the Church Clarity Charity box in aid of Children Clocks Shellfish Shelter in China.
Five o’ clock fit Tock the Tick like a hand in glove. For the event Tock the Tick chose his best bug brocade with flea fastenings and polished up his Tick Tock tucker clad. He dabbed on scent of Eternity eau de tick tock toilette behind his fashionable feelers. In truly clock chic, Clock collapsed in cocks of chuckles at the Clock Clown Circus when he saw the choreographed cockleshells clog dancing. Indian chief clock got another feather in his cloth cap as he narrowly missed arrows at the churlish clams. Lots of other ticks clamoured to see the Flea Circus and the crowd clapped and clashed in almanac applause at the Tickettes on the Tick Tock Trapeze. Tock the Tick and had his future told by the Clairvoyant clock and played in a Clock chess championship with his chums. At half past the hour, he had heard, the number six was jewelled with pearls, diamonds, emeralds and rubies, so he was keen to get there as quickly as possible.
Once Tock the tick had reached the full semi-circle on his journey, he rested, he knew he had a long uphill journey ahead of him. Spinning in circles another five minutes on, he catapulted himself the next few seconds then took deep breaths. “Don’t look down” he thought to himself, now on an upwards slope. The rocking Round the Clock Rockettes had a booking at short notice at the “Perpetuity Pub” in Greenwich mean - time. They got the cheery clock crowd to clap together in a count down on both hands as they sang the tuna by the Newsbeats - “Bread and Butter” from the swinging seaside sixties. Next was a seventies shellfish hit - “Angelfish Face” by the Glitter Band. Mamas & Papa Sea lion’s “Monday, Monday”, Little Richard’s “Tutti Fruitti”, Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” and “Let’s Twist Again” all got a rapturous reception. The Hound Dog hall was decorated with tick tock tinsel and glistened with Good Golly Miss Molly lights and the crowd clacked and clanked at the mollusc us musical. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Went the clock.
The pendulum swung in the direction of twenty-five minutes to the hour - he hopskotched on the minutes marks - where Tock the tick bought a ticket for the Doomsday Draw at the fish - shop - he was alarmed at the minutes of multi - form which he had to fill in to enter. He was going to have to watch Clock Channel Satellite TV in Tick Tock time for the winning results of the new semester. Tock cycled on a fish tail fish trail in twilight hours to the “At the Hop” Fisherman Film Centre where a Cliff Hanger was showing at cinema - Anno Domini - a dramatic biblical tale set in the decade of Christian crustaceans. The clock of tickets were reduced for more senior elder ticks. The film seemed to last an infinity - thank Rome for the insect interval when Tock the Tick took 5 minutes out to nip to the tick toilet and buy some Years of Clock Chips. He had had his feelers crossed the whole time. In the endless ending, all the ticks were fished, of course. Outside, the Club car got clamped in the fishpond by so he had to claim on the clam & insect insurance and get a sailing boat instead.
As the month elapsed to 45 minutes past, while Tick Tock Chubby Checkered, blues and soul hit the fishing boat and Tock had to bail out. Across the horizon, in the direction of quarter past the hour, he saw high waves heading towards him. He swam to the shore and settled down for the night. The pitter patter of raindrops could just be heard on the window pane as he rested under seaweed on a rock on this round of his rock around the clock tour. Against the constant clatter of the jellyfish and jaws, sharks shattered the seafront and lightening flashes shook shivering Tock the tick till midnight. At ten to tick - when Tock was truly thunderbolt tired and washed up - Tock finally fell in a deep sea sleep. He snoozed saltily and snored like a submarine until the final hour clock tolled. Overall, Tock the Tick was quite chuffed at a really cock - a - hoop rock around the clock.
recipe
Home-Made Lemon Jellyfish
Ingredients
250 mls water
15g gelatine
100g caster sugar
Rind and juice of three lemons
3 egg whites
Place the water and the gelatine into the a small saucepan and leave to soak for five minutes. Add the sugar, rind of lemon and juice. Place the pan over a light heat, allowing the gelatine and sugar to dissolve, but do not allow the mixture to boil. Remove from the heat and strain into a large mixing bowl then leave until cold. Add the egg whites and with an electric mixer, whisk the jelly until it is foamy and beginning to set. This will take at least 10 minutes (but you can speed up the process by placing the bowl in ice). Pour into individual bowls and chill for 3-4 hours. Before serving, prepare a seaweed bed of multi - coloured marzipan strips for the arms and legs of the jellyfish before tipping out the jellies upside - down on top.
© Jacqueline Richards 2005
The longest day starts early in the morning and ends late at night. What makes the day so long ? Perhaps the day was elastic and got stretched … or it could have been that the clock fell off the wall and span two hundred times a minute - so there were two hundred times more minutes in every hour. The longest day was five metres in length … because the man who made time couldn’t count. The longest day was only one of three hundred and sixty four … but it still went from here to there. Breakfast took hours in the longest day … and in fact, almost went on till lunchtime. Dinner went on till supper. The longest day was so long that it seemed that nothing could measure it … it took a thousand rulers. In the longest day, every millimetre measured a centimetre. Every inch, a yard, every yard a mile and so on and so on until the whole day was measured. The longest day was so long that it covered a whole week, in fact. From Monday through till Tuesday, Wednesday spilled into Thursday and the longest day always became long weekends. Bank holidays became summer breaks, which quickly became winter festivals.
Draw and write down what things you would do if you had the longest day.
© Jacqueline Richards 2005
Monday should have been the quietest day of all the week. After the weekend, when all the work is done, I suppose I could have spent reading, or making hot cross buns. I should have known I’d be unlucky - or that my week was had - when as soon as I turned the page over - I noticed I’d been had. Some of t’pages were missing, I couldn’t see the print, and so I went t’kitchen to decorate m’cakes with mints. But as soon as I turned the oven on - and noticed the number of t’dial. I quickly burned m’hot cross buns - now how about that for style ! I quickly rushed to the tap - but both of them were dry - we bashed our heads together a bit - what else was it we could try ? I decided to call t’plumber in - but he was busy for weeks. So instead I called the doctor - to check out m’ watery leaks. The doctor checked the temperature - he said the water was hot - I should have p’rhaps called the electrician - to check out my lot of hotspots.
Day to Day Activity
How many words can you think of that include the word “day” ?
Write ten sentences with the word “every” included in it.
Write a page about what has gone wrong in your day today.
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