{"id":3112,"date":"2017-09-01T07:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2017-09-01T07:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T14:20:05","slug":"friday-91-paperwork-mental-floss-test-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 9\/1: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prep Sheet for Test #2<\/a>:
\nAdjectives: ___\/5\u00a0 ___\/5\u00a0 ___\/5<\/b>
\nKBAR total for the week: KBAR: ___\/40<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/b> Vocabulary Homework: ____\/20
\nVocabulary Practices: ___\/11\u00a0 ___\/12\u00a0 ___\/11
\nOther Extra Credit: +3 for Per. 1 for Vocab Relay, +1 for Kal El.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Mental Floss.<\/p>\n

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  1. A boat has a ladder hanging off the side that has six rungs. Each rung is one foot apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water. The tide rises at 12 inches every 15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is at its highest, how many rungs are under water?<\/li>\n
  2. Show how it is possible to name the capital of each and every one of the United States in less than a minute.<\/li>\n
  3. Which is correct, \u201cbigger of two halves\u201d or \u201cbiggest of two halves\u201d?<\/li>\n
  4. Johnny\u2019s mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What was the name of her fourth child?<\/li>\n
  5. There are ten sheep walking in a straight line across a field. What numbered sheep can look back and say he is the\u00a0third from the last<\/u><\/b>\u00a0in line?<\/li>\n
  6. A house painter paints numbers on all the new houses in a neighborhood from 1-100. How many times does he have to paint the digit 9? (Not a trick; I\u2019m just betting you can\u2019t count.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Test #2<\/a>.<\/h3>\n

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    Finished early? Your choices:
    \n1) Doodle \u2013 Theme:\u00a0\u201cWeird Planet.\u201d The theme is optional; you may doodle about whatever you want. If I like it you get get extra credit.
    \n2) Trackword. 10 words = +1, 20 = +2, etc.
    \n3) Read something.
    \n4) Nap. Just don\u2019t snore.
    \n5) Stare blankly (and\u00a0silently<\/strong>) into space.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Have a tremendous\u00a03-day<\/a>\u00a0weekend!<\/p>\n

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    Prep Sheet for Test #2: Adjectives: ___\/5\u00a0 ___\/5\u00a0 ___\/5 KBAR total for the week: KBAR: ___\/40\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vocabulary Homework: ____\/20 Vocabulary Practices: ___\/11\u00a0 ___\/12\u00a0 ___\/11 Other Extra Credit: +3 for Per. 1 for Vocab Relay, +1 for Kal El.   Mental Floss. A boat has a ladder hanging off the side that has six rungs. Each … Read moreFriday, 9\/1: Paperwork, Mental Floss, Test #2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-floss","category-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrcoward.com\/middleschool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}