Here's the creative thinking question that my students are enjoying this week...
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My students love to get a quick question to fire up their creative thinking. Here's this week's one...
Is cereal soup? Why or why not?
Ever wondered what the longest word is?
True or false: Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series got his name from an old name for a bumblebee
In Sussex, a 'monkey's birthday' described when the sun shines and it rains at the same time. What a creative image!
'God's Almighty Cow' is the name of one of these creatures in the Sussex dialect. Which one do you think?
a) Ladybird
b) Fox
c) Swan
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I saw him wincing as he wrote his first line of ideas. "Does it hurt when you write?" I asked. "Of course," Sam replied. He believed that handwriting was a painful activity they made you do at school.
