Homework for Friday is to answer as many of the 9 questions below as you can and write them up as a post on your own blog under the heading “Homework Assignment for the Week.”
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3.Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables? 
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is
Whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn’t been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ‘dw’ and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter ‘S.’
Don’t forget this Thursday and Friday are half days for all of the students and they will be leaving on buses at 11.30 a.m.If you need any transport from Jinqiao there are shuttles leaving from the Starbucks at 11, 1 and 3 on both days and also returning there several times during the afternoon, e mail me for details.
I hope you all had a great, relaxing spring break. I have heard many exciting stories from students about their travels during spring break. Check out individual student blogs to see what they got up to. It’s hard to believe but your child is into the final quarter of their fifth grade year and of course their elementary schooling too!
the barefoot librarian 