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[Jill]

Some tongue twisters to start:

To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock
In a pestilential prison with a life long lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado
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Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks
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East Fife Four, Forfar Five

An actual football result from the Scottish third division


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Give me the gift of a grip-top sock,
A clip drape shipshape tip top sock.
Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock,
But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock.
None of your fantastic slack swap slop
From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop.
Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock
With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.
Not a supersheet seersucker rucksack sock,
Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's sock
Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block.
Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop
Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.

articulation warmup for actors

[Jill]

This is a very puzzling question.

You are looking at a picture of a man and you say

'Brothers and sisters have I none
But that mans father is my fathers son.

Who is the person in the picture?

[Jill]

So answer this question.

There is a ship out at sea with a ladder hanging down the sides.
There are 6 rungs showing.
Each rung is a foot apart (we don't do metric measurements yet!)
The tide rises at the rate of a foot every 2 hours.

The question is:
After 3 hours how many rungs will be showing on the ladder hanging down the sides of the ship?

[Jill]

How about a festive jigsaw puzzle?


Snowman Jigsaw puzzle

[Jill]

Can you find 1 place where Pattern ‘A’ is hidden in the layout below? What about Pattern ‘B’- can you find 2 places where it is hidden?

http://www.smart-kit.com/s974/perceptual-puzzle-star-layout/

[Jill]

Instructions to make penguins here

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mpenguin.html