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Monday 21 September 2009

Lancaster City Youth
5 - 2
Lancaster Giants


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1 Cockerham Juniors 2 2 0 0 6
2 Lancaster City Youth 2 2 0 0 6
3 Bare Rangers Red 1 1 0 0 3
4 Lancaster Boys Club Blue 2 1 0 1 3
5 Lancaster Giants 2 1 0 1 3
6 Heysham Blue Star Colts 1 0 0 1 0
7 Warton Warriors 2 0 0 2 0
8 Morecambe Youth Colts 2 0 0 2 0

octo poem homework

Write an Instant Octopoem

Method:

1st line: A color
2nd line: A season
3rd line: A place
4th line: A type of weather
5th line: A type of clothing
6th line: A piece of furniture
7th line: A TV Show
8th line: A type of food


Sample:

Wild gray outdoor cat
Hungry for summer treats
Draped and lazy across my front stoop
When steamy July thunderstorms rumble through
She pants and huddles inside her war torn fur coat
Feline survivor
Thriving at the neighborhood buffet



go here

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/octopoem.htm


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another example



Sam.

Sam is red,
He is summer,
He is in the lounge,
He is sunny,
Sam is a pillow,
He is a cartoon character,
A nice juicy Smoothe


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Janella

I am Green
I am summer
I am a Beach
I am sunny
I am a pair of jeans
I am a couch
I am a strawberry

fastest car




from

http://homedkidzmagazine.blogspot.com/

Thursday 10 September 2009

Grammar schoolGrammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally schools teaching classical languages but more recently academically-oriented types of secondary school.

The original purpose of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin. Over time the curriculum was broadened, first to include Ancient Greek and sometimes Hebrew, and later English and other European languages, as well as the natural sciences, mathematics, history, geography and other subjects. In the late Victorian era, grammar schools were re-organised to provide secondary education across the United Kingdom with the exception of Scotland, which had developed a different system. Grammar schools of these types were also established in British territories, where they have evolved in different ways.

Grammar schools became the selective tier of the Tripartite System of state-funded secondary education operating in England and Wales from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s and continuing in Northern Ireland. With the move to non-selective comprehensive schools in the 1960s and 1970s, some grammar schools became fully independent and charged fees, while most others were abolished or became comprehensive. In both cases, many of these schools kept "grammar school" in their names. Some parts of England retain forms of the Tripartite System, and there are also a few surviving grammar schools in otherwise comprehensive areas. Some of the remaining grammar schools can trace their histories to before the 16th century.

from wikipedia


There are still 164 state-run grammar schools in existence.[27] Only a few areas keep a formal grammar school system along the lines of the Tripartite System. In these areas, the eleven plus exam is used solely to identify a subset of children (around 25%) considered suitable for grammar education. When a grammar school has too many qualified applicants, other criteria are used to allocate places, such as siblings, distance or faith. Such systems still exist in Buckinghamshire, Rugby and Stratford districts of Warwickshire, the Salisbury district of Wiltshire, Stroud in Gloucestershire and most of Lincolnshire, Kent and Medway.[28][29] Of metropolitan areas, Trafford and most of Wirral are selective.[30][31]

In other areas, grammar schools survive mainly as very highly selective schools in an otherwise comprehensive county, for example in several of the outer boroughs of London. In some LEAs, as few as 2% of 11 year olds may attend grammar schools. These schools are often heavily over-subscribed, and award places in rank order of performance in their entry tests. They also tend to dominate the top positions in performance tables.[32]

top 5 long river

Rank River Location Approximate Length—miles
1. Nile Africa 4,180
2. Amazon South America 3,912
3. Mississippi-Missouri-Red Rock United States 3,710
4. Chang Jiang (Yangtze) China 3,602
5. Ob Russia 3,459
6. Huang Ho (Yellow) China 2,900
7. Yenisei Russia 2,800
8. Parana South America 2,795
9. Irtish Russia 2,758
10. Zaire (Congo) Congo 2,716

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The 25 Longest Rivers in the World

Number
River Length in Miles Where Found

1. Nile 4,135 miles North/East Africa

2. Amazon 3,980 miles South America

3. Chang Jiang (Yangtze) 3,917 miles China

4. Mississippi-Missouri 3,870 miles USA

5. Yenisey 3,434 miles Russia

6. Huang He 3,395 miles China

7. Ob-Irtysh 3,354 miles Russia

8. Congo 2,914 miles Central Africa

9. Amur 2,744 miles Northeast Asia

10. Lena 2,734 miles Russia

11. Mackenzie 2,635 miles Canada

12. Mekong 2,600 miles Southeast Asia

13. Niger 2,590 miles Africa

14. Parana 2,485 miles South America











10 Longest Rivers

LENGTH

Outflow and Location mi. km.

1. Nile Mediterranean Sea, Egypt 4,160 6,690

2. Amazon Atlantic Ocean, Amapa-Para, Brazil 4,080 6,570

3. Mississippi-Missouri Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, U.S. 3,740 6,020

4. Yangtze East China Sea, Kiangsu, China 3,720 5,980

5. Yenisey Yenisey Gulf in Kara Sea, Russia, U.S.S.R. 3,650 5,870

6. Amur Tatar Strait, U.S.S.R. 3,590 5,780

7. Ob-Irtysh Gulf of Ob in Kara Sea, U.S.S.R. 3,360 5,410

8. Plata-Parana Atlantic Ocean, Argentina-Uruguay 3,030 4,880

9. Yellow (Hwang) Yellow Sea, Shantung, China 3,010 4,840

10. Congo (Zaire) Atlantic Ocean, Angola-Zaire 2,880 4,630