Monday, 10 December 2012

Brain Teasers - 07/12/12 - The Answer

Suppose there is only one barber shop in your town, and it employs two barbers. One of the barbers has a nice, neatly trimmed head of hair. The other's hair is a complete mess.

Which of the two barbers should you go to and why?

A: Since there are only two barbers in town, it's safe to assume that they cut each others hair. This being the case, you should sit down with the barber with the messy hair.

Friday, 7 December 2012

Brain Teaser - 07/12/12

Suppose there is only one barber shop in your town, and it employs two barbers. One of the barbers has a nice, neatly trimmed head of hair. The other's hair is a complete mess.

Which of the two barbers should you go to and why?

Answer on Monday....

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Motivational Quotes - 05/12/12

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind.”

- William James, Psychologist

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Literacy Lesson - 04/12/12

Very Confusing Words!

Some words sound the same but mean different things and are often spelt differently too. These words are called Homophones.




where

wear

Where are you going tonight?

Which dress are you going to wear?

which

witch

Which ice-cream would you like?

The witch was seen flying on a broomstick.

Monday, 3 December 2012

Monday Motivational - 03/12/12

“No one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid beliefs about what tomorrow will contain.”

- Watts Wacker, Jim Taylor and Howard Means

Brain Teaser - 30/11/12 - The Answer

A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river. He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing. If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken. If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

How does the man do it?

1) Man carries chicken to other side
2) Man returns alone and takes fox to the other side
3) Man leaves fox but returns with chicken.
4) Man leaves chicken and carries corn to the other side
5) Man leaves corn with fox and returns alone
6) Man gets chicken and takes it to the other side