Firewords

Keywords: Starter | Arithmetic

• Class 9X3, Hadleigh High School, Suffolk
• Friday, September 29, 2006
• "We have found telephone, primary and Star War. Also we made Bildeston which is a village in which lots of our pupils live!"
• Amy, Thomas Telford
• Friday, October 13, 2006
• "My Word is ELEPHANT'S"
• Tam, Sussex PGCE
• Tuesday, October 17, 2006
• "The pupils loved this one! They were supposed to be doing subtraction afterwards but were much more interested in how much one another's name was worth!"
• Alice Infante, Turkey
• Tuesday, October 31, 2006
• "I had to do home work on this and I was looking for ages but I got there in the end."
• Chalfonts Community College, Chalfonts Class 11K6
• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• "Wednesday
  Squares
  Towers
  Attitude"
• Kim Whitaker, Bishop Ramsey School
• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• "Wednesday"
• Suzanne Tunait, Bishop Ramsey School
• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• "Suzanne"
• Geraint Owen, Bishop Ramsey School
• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• "Excellent
  
  I love this exercise!!! My class are having so much fun!!!"
• Gregory Farquhar, LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• "TANGENTS gives 100"
• , LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• "PUSSY found by Daniel Saffer and Nicholas Reynolds
  STANDARDS found by Alex Schiffeldrin.
  
  Both of these words add up to 100 too
  
  prw@gsal.org.uk"
• Ella Rogers (class 5YM), Henlow VC Middle School
• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• "Words worth 100p -Nov 5th-
  Irritate
  Resolved"
• Set 1 Year 5, Henlow Middle School
• Thursday, November 02, 2006
• "At Henlow Middle School, Set 1 found some mathematical words:-
  Thirty, Problems, Primary and quarter"
• Leher Gumber, Myton School, Warwick , Warwickshire
• Thursday, November 02, 2006
• "Hello, really good puzzle. I found loads of words."
• Abdul Kaif, morpeth school
• Friday, November 03, 2006
• "Hospital"
• Tom Nichols & Alex Sanghera, Haybridge High School
• Friday, November 03, 2006
• "Tom Nichols & Alex Sanghera,from Haybridge High School, Hagley, Worcs (yr 7) got TOILETS = £1"
• D Felstead, Garth Hill College
• Friday, November 03, 2006
• "Wednesday"
• Eleanor Panes, 9F St Augustine's Trowbridge
• Friday, November 03, 2006
• "quarter"
• Callum Charles, London
• Sunday, November 05, 2006
• "One of my students came up with an odd word yippiy but it still makes 100p"
• Shannan, Bradford
• Sunday, November 05, 2006
• "Wednesday"
• Brendan Atkinson 9KL, The English College Dubai
• Monday, November 06, 2006
• "Brendan found 'towers'. No one else found anything!!"
• Mark Edgar, sedgar@christs-hospital.lincs.sch.uk
• Monday, November 06, 2006
• "Turkey = 100!"
• Zoe Baker, Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni
• Monday, November 06, 2006
• "writing"
• Jon Middlecote, The John Kyrle High School
• Monday, November 06, 2006
• "Hospital"
• Tom Armstrong, Bridgemary Community Sports College, Gosport
• Monday, November 06, 2006
• "Reciprocal is another £1 word"
• JORDAN, JORDAN
• Monday, November 06, 2006
• "I found the word telephone"
• Sam Hayes, English College Dubai
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "Numeracy adds up to 100!!"
• Gordon and James, English College, Dubai
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "Telephone adds up to 100"
• Kerry & Charlie, The John Kyrle High School
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "Hospital"
• Jon Middlecote, The John Kyrle High School
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "Hospital"
• Yr 6 set 1, Bungay Middle School
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "An excellent activity. One pupil found chimpanzee worth £1."
• Ryan Kubilius, 10M St Augustine's
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "squares"
• Gabbie, Burnholme Community College
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "Gabbie (Year 8) found the following
  
  personal
  
  really good activity that engaged all ability levels(N Lawrenson - Head of Maths)"
• Nakisha King, Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "Wednesday"
• Rianna and Heidi, London
• Tuesday, November 07, 2006
• "My word is pumpkin"
• Sebastian Stroud, Maidenhead
• Wednesday, November 08, 2006
• "Another 100 word is ATTITUDE"
• 9MA1, Oxford Community School
• Wednesday, November 08, 2006
• "New words:
  Writing
  Elephants
  telescope that add up to 100p
  "
• Anna, Ansford
• Wednesday, November 08, 2006
• ""Excellent" costs £1"
• Will, Ludlow
• Thursday, November 09, 2006
• "My word is
  
  vacuums"
• Year 9 Set 1, Leeds Grammar
• Thursday, November 09, 2006
• "standards
  tangents
  pussy"
• Ryan Roberts, Saltus Grammar School, Bermuda
• Thursday, November 09, 2006
• "I have found 10 words -
  1) crusts
  2) diagoonally
  3) cruising
  4) hichhikes
  5) Equalized
  6) keyboards
  7) motors
  8) powders
  9) telescope
  10) whiskey
  "
• George Galbraith, Crieff High School
• Thursday, November 09, 2006
• "The word is 'nutty'"
• 7H, Aylesbury High
• Thursday, November 09, 2006
• "We found the word 'turkey'."
• Amy Thomas, St Martins School
• Friday, November 10, 2006
• "New word, excellent"
• Liam Coleman., Angley School, Cranbrook, Kent.
• Friday, November 10, 2006
• "9 set 2 worked hard and found some of the ones mentioned. Liam Coleman came up with "Swimmer". Mrd Jones. JN."
• Joe Foster, Clifton
• Saturday, November 11, 2006
• "I was just having fun when I typed toilets in and it came to a pound!"
• Joe Foster, Clifton
• Saturday, November 11, 2006
• "I found printer."
• JI, Cardinal Newman, Coventry
• Sunday, November 12, 2006
• "Grumpy"
• Bill, Avery Hill
• Tuesday, November 14, 2006
• "Numeracy. at last. how ironic."
• Philip Cheetham, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
• Tuesday, November 14, 2006
• "Lightning"
• J Defter, Kingsdown School
• Thursday, November 16, 2006
• "straws
  wednesday"
• J Defter, Kingsdown School
• Thursday, November 16, 2006
• "maximize"
• Mrs Bailey, Denbigh High School, Luton
• Friday, November 17, 2006
• "TURKEY"
• Jonathan Burton, Chatham
• Monday, November 20, 2006
• "Tangents!"
• Matt Brunt, Chatham
• Monday, November 20, 2006
• "Reciprocal!"
• Gavin Coleman, Chatham Grammar School for Boys
• Tuesday, November 21, 2006
• "MIDPOINT is £1. This is amazing, hours of fun!"
• Michael Burton, Chatham Grammar School for Boys
• Tuesday, November 21, 2006
• "ROBIN HOOD is £1! This puzzle rules!"
• David, Stuart and Alfie, Chatham Grammar School for Boys
• Wednesday, November 22, 2006
• "We each found a word - Wednesday, fountain and immature"
• mr jeffrey, warden park
• Thursday, November 23, 2006
• "Towers"
• 10M4 - Wade Deacon High School, Widnes (near Liverpool)
• Thursday, November 23, 2006
• "Danny found that ATTITUDE works and Josh found that BEETROOT also adds up to 100."
• Amy Year 9, Hadleigh High School Suffolk
• Friday, June 22, 2007
• "'Turkey' costs £1"
• 7X2, Hadleigh High School
• Monday, June 25, 2007
• "For £1 we found:
  Jade Richards
  lightning
  Bildeston (Feeder primary village)
  War Hammer
  Rebekah
  For 50p we found:
  bush
  animal"
• Beccy, Shropshire
• Friday, June 29, 2007
• "Primary costs 100p"
• Alice Clack, John Masefield Ledbury
• Wednesday, July 04, 2007
• "Wednesday"
• 5B Numeracy Set, Farsley Farfiels Primary in Leeds
• Wednesday, July 04, 2007
• "Wednesday - found by Luke Dowgill"
• Year 7 set 2, John Masefield High
• Wednesday, July 04, 2007
• "killbots- Joey
  whispy- Sam
  telephone - Hannah"
• 5F Numeracy set, Farsley Farfield Primary School
• Wednesday, July 04, 2007
• "Stress by Matthew Robey"
• Miss Hadden and 6M1, South Wigston High School, Leicester
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "We found 'violins' and 'chimpanzee'."
• Miss Keegan & Class, Plumerow Primary School
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "We found Numeracy, Lightning, Hospital and Therefore"
• Kristy Blakelock, Monkwearmouth School, Sunderland.
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Kristy from 8A2 got 'RECIPROCAL'. What a legend word."
• Y8N4 Luke, St George's College of Technology Sleaford
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Excellent!"
• Charlie Zammit, 9H
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Toilets"
• Miss Horton, Class 5H Herman Middle School
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Our teaching assistant (Mrs Cushing ) found the following word: NUMERACY.
  We have checked it at least 5 times."
• Thalan, Hylands
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Gypsies"
• Mrs Collins, The Purbeck School
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Year 12 A Level Mathematcians (The Purbeck School) would like to add:
  
  Judiciary
  Swifter
  Shattered
  xylose
  misdirect
  posting"
• Scott H, Huddersfield
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Elephants"
• 9B2, St Cecilia's, Lancashire
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Gemma found 'Numeracy'"
• Callum R, SRG
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "My Word is POSTING"
• John Doran, SRG
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Chimpanzee is worth £1"
• Ben Harrison age 10, St Brigids RC Primary School
• Thursday, July 05, 2007
• "Beginnings"
• Katy, Farsley
• Friday, July 06, 2007
• "Primary and Stress both cost 100p"
• Ana-Maria Broscatan, Wycombe High School
• Wednesday, July 11, 2007
• "I have found another £1.00 word: 'rituals'"
• Lucy Holmes, Ecclesbourne
• Thursday, July 12, 2007
• "Toilets!"
• Marge, Trinity All Saints
• Thursday, September 06, 2007
• "Excellent resource! I am in my third year of teaching practice, and can't wait to try out this new resource! Thanks"
• Kelly Smith, New College, Telford
• Friday, November 02, 2007
• "I had alot of fun with this. I found 'Analysis'!"
• Year 7, BISJ
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "WE found Mr Blindman and yancomamo. Yes, very strange !"
• Rosheen, Linwood High School Renfrewshire
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "In celebration of Bonfire Night we found SPARKLER"
• Liam and Joanne, Yr 6 set 1 Cheadle Primary School
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "We found sparkler and spookx"
• Primary 7, Braidbar Primary School
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "We found SPARKLER."
• Miss Ellison and Year 7 set 2, Castle Hall School
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "We had fun and Jack found 'SPARKLER' - very appropriate. "
• Ben, Steven, Jack and Kelly, Linwood High School Renfrewshire
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "We found Sparkler Hospital Elephants and Explodes"
• 8Y3, Hadleigh High School Suffolk
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "We have found SPARKLER and EXPLODES!"
• Emma Gorman, Lochend CHS
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "I found that my name added up to £1. "
• Class 4C, Linwood High School Renfrewshire
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "Class 4C found FOUNTAIN, SPARKLER and QUARTER"
• Reanna Langdon, 9s6
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "We enjoyed the activity. We found sparkler and Screem Mare, a new name for a firework."
• 9A2, Harrytown High School Stockport
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "On a bonfire night theme 9A2 from Harrytown in Stockport found SPARKLER"
• Rebecca, Alice, Charlie, 8Y1 Hinchley Wood School, Esher
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "We found sparkler, violins and writing."
• Gary Hyland and co, King Edward VI School
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "Flash Grenade
  Roman Candle
  Sparkler
  Elephant
  Lynsey (one of the students)"
• Mr Riddler, The Whitby High School, Ellesmere Port
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "Charlotte Simcott found SPARKLER, how apt. "
• Kelly and Lauren, Linwood High and Woodies Primary
• Monday, November 05, 2007
• "We found 11 words
  
  WEDNESDAY
  ATTITUDE
  SUZANNE
  SQUARES
  TOWERS
  EXPLODES
  SPARKLERS
  ELEPHANT
  HOSPITAL
  TELEPHONE
  EXCELLENT"
• Rachel, Leeds
• Wednesday, November 07, 2007
• "I had to do this for my homework and only found this website after! I got about 25 words which I was happy with. I also found shortcake I am not sure about it but oh well!"
• Samuel Thompson, De La Salle School St Helens
• Thursday, November 08, 2007
• "Wizards"
• Luke B, 8D1 Carshalton Boys
• Thursday, November 08, 2007
• "Quarry - couldn't see this one already here. Love the game and will do it again but with different totals."
• Fergee, Beacon Community College
• Friday, November 09, 2007
• "I found 'glittered' works to 100p"
• Sylvia Markowska, 7H, Harrytown, Stockport
• Monday, November 12, 2007
• "Sylvia found SPARKLER"
• Steve Thomas, Hounslow Community Education
• Wednesday, December 05, 2007
• "Gina from my numeracy class was captivated by this activity and was up to all hours coming up with her list:
  Wholesale
  Vouchsafe
  Utensil
  Traction
  Thirty
  Taurus
  Quadrangle
  Quarry
  Quarter
  Nestling
  Hospital
  Pringles
  Fountain
  
  Well done, Gina!"
• Amy and Oscar Kelly, Holyport
• Saturday, January 12, 2008
• "we got starfish it took us a long time but we finaly did it!"
• Annie, Glasgow
• Wednesday, October 29, 2008
• "The word 'gobbledegook' = £1. Its actually in the dictionary!"
• Fergus and Jeremy, British International School, New York
• Tuesday, November 04, 2008
• "WE found "TOASTY""
• Sophie W, Bourne Grammar School
• Tuesday, November 04, 2008
• "I found 10 words:
  Elephants
  crusts
  whisky
  grumpy
  straws
  maximize
  turkey
  towers
  beetroot
  primary.
  I'm just amazing at it!"
• Mr Bullock, Gloucester School
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "One young man found "A lemonade beer" which costs £1"
• Year 9or Set 2, Highlands School
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "We found:
  oxtails
  beetroot
  printer
  excellent
  variety
  activities
  hospital"
• 9 set 2, Sturminster Newton High School
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "We found "clockwise", "turkey" and "large fries" !"
• Halesworth Middle School, Class 6
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "We found Sparkler and Pumpkin"
• Charlotte Fargie, Kettlethorpe High School
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "Drizzle"
• Class 5/6 G, St Patrick's
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "TURKEY - Sophie, Tim & Hindolo
  WEDNESDAY - Rosie & Ashley
  ELEPHANTS - Class 5/6G"
• Miss Adcock, Top Set Year 6 Maths @ Bovington Middle School
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "We found SPARKLER!"
• Hadleigh High School, Suffolk
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "Found today:
  Buzzy (from Geraint and Ben)
  Sao Paulo (from Luke)
  Chicken Masala
  Mary Moo
  Oliver's"
• Alex, King Henry VIII School, Abergavenny
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "Alex also found Roman Candle and starfish.Yeah, go Alex!"
• Mr.T, King henry Vii school School Abergavenny
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "I got 2 words. Postman B and mister.P Yay me and my calculator woo."
• Rachel, Gloucester
• Wednesday, November 05, 2008
• "I asolutely positutaly love this site its awesome
  my pupils love it and they go on it at home I even set it as homework once
  ^^ hehe I love it !!!!"
• Mrs Smith, The Leventhorpe School
• Thursday, November 06, 2008
• "Ral Onyema in 7Y1 found 'striker'."
• Miss Legrove, Sir Graham Balfour
• Thursday, November 06, 2008
• "Words worth £1 are Sparkler: Y10 Sir graham balfour"
• Archimedes maths group, Mornington Primary School
• Thursday, November 06, 2008
• "Our word is FOUNTAIN"
• Miss Yuill, The Kimberley School
• Friday, November 07, 2008
• "My class of Year 10's enjoyed this activity and managed to find 'starfish' which cost 100p."
• Year 10- Statistics, Bilericay School
• Friday, November 07, 2008
• "Hi everyone
  We found:
  Hooligans
  Pounding
  Posting
  Carpenter"
• Vikram Foot ring, Billericay
• Friday, November 07, 2008
• "I found 2 funny ones:
  scream (as in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah)
  
  and scream as in eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
• Set 2, Kings College Taunton
• Saturday, November 08, 2008
• "We got pounding, plunging, fibre work and sky-fire-bad. This puzzle is venom! Maths rocks!"
• S Cox, Dereham, Norfolk
• Tuesday, November 11, 2008
• "This began as a starter for my year 8 class, but they got so into it, it turned into a homework, and between them they found 51 words costing £1 (most of these found by Luke Copping!). Here are a selection: Football Lad, mailboxes, acknowledge, riverbank, crusts, pumpkin, resumes, clockwise, delivery, mirrored, identifies, chimpanzee, apropos, cruising, rewound, fountain, swimmer."
• Undeg Steffan, Ruthin, Wales
• Wednesday, November 12, 2008
• "Loved this one!! Me and my class had so much fun but I won with wizards and "athrawon" which means teachers in welsh."
• George's maths club, Taunton School
• Tuesday, November 25, 2008
• "George Wayman wanted me to tell you that he found Presley. "
• James O, St Patricks
• Saturday, January 17, 2009
• "Forest Green
  Toilets
  Turkey"
• Jack Robinson/Reece Matthews, Bruntcliffe
• Thursday, February 12, 2009
• "BASSLINES"
• Dave Harwood, Swansea
• Sunday, April 19, 2009
• "Toilets, telephone and starfish."
• Miss Van Der Veen, Victoria Park State School
• Tuesday, April 28, 2009
• "This is a good puzzel, but would be better if you use dollars as well as pounds."
• Desmond Doyle, Liverpool, England
• Wednesday, August 26, 2009
• "Sparklers, elvis and numeracy add to 100."
• Laura, Homeschool
• Friday, October 16, 2009
• "'Friendlier'
  After re-working it out about 10 times, I finally got it!"
• Year 8, Clevedon School
• Tuesday, November 03, 2009
• "We found loads-
  Wednesday
  Turkey
  Toilet
  Sparkler
  Robin Hood
  Pringles
  Starfish
  And more!!!! Too many to type!!
  Cat Wynn is one also!!"
• 9p2y, Prince Henry's High School, Evesham
• Wednesday, November 04, 2009
• "We found RIVERBANK and SQUARES."
• 9/10 Ge Maths - Fiordland College, Te Anau, New Zealand
• Wednesday, November 04, 2009
• "Pumpkin
  Sasha Alexander
  Jono Hayest
  Trizza
  Lots of fun."
• Year 8, MSJ
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "We found this starter difficult but the class were very enthusiastic about trying to work it out!"
• Mrs P Cain, Chellaston School Derby
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "We spent the time trying to think of firework related words....the only one apart from SPARKLER we came up with was ROMAN CANDLE.
  Once we had looked at other schools entries it made the task easier but we persevered with our Firework theme!!!
  Good fun!
  Year 10
  Chellaston School
  Derby."
• M Asker, Y6 St James
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "A pupil from St James Middle got WATSUP = 100!!"
• Vanessa Sarpong, Connaught School For Girls
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• ""squares" and "collecting" from Vanessa."
• Rebecca, Dunfermline High School
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "We found SHORTCAKE."
• Matt Peters, Filsham Valley School
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "I found the word "squares"."
• The Best Maths Group Ever (8cd/m2), King Alfred's College OXON
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "We found these words
  Wholesale
  Vouchsafe
  Utensil
  Traction
  Thirty
  Taurus
  Quadrangle
  Quarry
  Quarter
  Nestling
  Hospital
  Pringles
  Fountain
  starfish
  sparkler
  romancandle
  wednesday
  attitude
  tower
  telephone
  toilets
  hooligans
  fountain
  pounding
  posting
  we found 25 words and this starter was really fun."
• Mrs Smith, Year 8 Class At KGGS
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "Hannah Grain found TURKEY and Anya Faulkner found PROBLEMS."
• Penny Harris, The Market Weighton School
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "Seashells."
• A O'hagan, Class 3G Holyrood Sec Glasgow
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "The words we found are romancandle,sparkler,pumpkin,turkey and caitlynmc!"
• Allan Haney, Holyrood Sec Glasgow
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "Fountain!"
• Jay Vachhani, Durrington High School
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "Pumpkin."
• Amy Holden, Radcliffe Riverside High
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "From radcliffe riverside we found
  "riverside" by Tom Bolton
  "sparkler" by Amy Holden and Dom Porter
  "explodes" by Danielle Broderick."
• MSJ, Y10
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "Martin Smith came up with personal, Martin love maths."
• David Payne, St Anne's Catholic School, Southampton
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "As an extension can you find letters whose values multiply to make 100 or any other given value?
  My only answer so far is BABY (2 x 1 x 2 x 25)."
• A O'hagan, Holyrood Sec Glasgow Yr 5
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "Enjoyed doing this...we found
  plastered,temperance, telephone,styles,sparkler,mclaughlin,toilets,elephants,pumpkin,attitude."
• Josh Dewes, 7X1 Hadleigh High School
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "I found 'pinecones' which we couldn't see already listed."
• Kirsty Ferguson, West Lothian
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "Vivienne works."
• Class 1A, James Hamilton Academy
• Thursday, November 05, 2009
• "We found Wednesday
  Romanski
  maximize
  starfish
  starling
  elephants
  great tit
  standards."
• Annabelle Gild, Melbourne, Australia
• Friday, November 06, 2009
• "I found culture!"
• Mr Dearnley, Rose Bridge High School, Wigan
• Friday, November 06, 2009
• "Fountain found by Lewis and Sparkler found by Olivia."
• Class 8L3, Northgate High, Dereham Norfolk
• Friday, November 06, 2009
• "Rebecca found 40! as wel as the ones we found in class.
  tooting
  attitude
  discipline
  posting
  jostles
  clockwise
  arrivals
  crusts
  courses
  borrowed
  pounding
  prevent
  problems
  raincoats
  profiles
  restore
  sevices
  telephone
  stress
  status
  bedazzles
  straws
  printer
  arrest
  elephants
  addressing
  keyboards
  hospital
  explains
  motor
  twisted
  thirty
  stools
  sessions
  sources
  towers
  upsets
  whistled
  swimmer
  writing."
• Mr McQuade, John Paul Academy
• Tuesday, November 10, 2009
• "Sparkler, Telephone, Elephants and A New Moon were our attempts.
  Class S3/1 at John Paul Academy, Glasgow."
• Jessica Mcdonald, Prenton High For Girls
• Monday, November 16, 2009
• "Happyfaces."
• Year 8, Ecclesbourne School
• Tuesday, November 17, 2009
• "Mongolian
  Buzzy
  Starfish
  A creature that lives in the bottom of lakes on the Mongolian Plain and makes a strange bee like noise."
• Samba, Gambia
• Wednesday, November 25, 2009
• "We found sparkla."

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