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Time Traveling Thieves
October 6, 2014
Time travelling worms
July 22, 2013
TIME TRAVELLING WORMS
Boy: That’s the Earth [left], with blue for the seas and green for the land. There’s some small islands too.
There’s the two black holes and the diagonal is the tunnel that the worms go through to go from the first black hole to the other black hole. The worms are bigger in that black hole [nearest the Earth], because they’re older when they’re there.
That’s a spaceman [top].
Age 6
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Time travel
July 21, 2013
Boy: Can we make a time machine today – a REAL one?
[Mum Googles for some sort of inspiration and comes up with the following:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/10/how-to-build-a-time-machine.html ]
Mum: It looks a bit tricky – we need two black holes, a worm hole, and some dark energy to prop open the worm hole. It might take a few years. We could make a pretend one today?
Boy: But I want to make a REAL one! So, you mean we can’t make it in one day? How old will I be? Will I be dead?
Mum: I guess it depends how fast you work on it.
Boy: I want to work on it ALL DAY tomorrow!
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Defeating time
June 11, 2013
Son: Mum! Come and look at my time machine I made!
Mum: Oh yes, it’s made out of your clothes that you’re supposed to be putting on!
Son: Yeah. Think of a time and it takes you back to it. I need to stick the bits together though.
Mum: Maybe YOU could be the glue that holds them all together?
Son: No – that wouldn’t work. Mum, at the weekend – not this weekend when I’m at my Dad’s but the next one – can we make a REAL time machine?
Mum: Um. Yeees, we can try…
Son: Will we be on the news?
Mum: If it works, I’m sure we’d be on the news!
Son: We’d better make sure it works then!
[Any suggestions for this upcoming task, greatly appreciated! 😉 ]
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Removing recognition
May 30, 2013
Son: I’m going to be very sad at the end of sports camp this time.
Mum: Why?
Son: Because there’s no wristbands, medals or trophy now – they don’t do that anymore.
Mum: Why don’t they do that anymore?
Son: Because the Coach has got a boss now and he says, “Don’t give out wristbands, medals or trophies at the end because it wastes too much time!”
Mum: Oh dear. And do you think they should carry on giving them out?
Son: Yes, because it’s a good thing for children.
Mum: Why is it a good thing?
Son: Because there are people who haven’t got them yet – like James – it’s not fair for him, he hasn’t got anything – no wristband, no medal, no trophy, nothing. They don’t do any of it now, and he just REALLY wants a wristband, a medal or a trophy! What I really want from there is a wristband.
Mum: Do you try harder if there’s wristbands, medals and trophies at the end?
Son: Yes, we have to work REALLY hard if we want to get one. In the olden days when I didn’t get anything I worked SO hard and I didn’t get anything so I just gave up – I just worked normally. Until eventually I found out that I still wouldn’t get anything, so I gave up from working normally. Then one day I decided to try again and that’s when I got a medal. And then the next time I tried even more and that’s when I got the trophy.
Mum: And how did you feel when they said they weren’t going to give them out any more?
Son: It shocked me so much that I felt angry to hear the news that they didn’t give out wristbands, medals or trophies anymore and to this day, I am still a little upset. I gave up being angry though, because the more you’re angry the less things you’ll get – do you know that?
Mum: That’s true. So, do you work hard when you go to sports camp now?
Son: Now it doesn’t matter if you work hard, because they don’t give out trophies or medals anymore.
Mum: But DO you?
Son: A little bit.
Space shuttle service
April 28, 2013
It’s a rocket. They’re some people who have just got out [left] and those are some people who are just about to climb up the stairs and get in [right].
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Oh happy day!
April 5, 2013
D: Do you know why today is going to be a happy day?
Me: Why?
D: Because, the sun is out and when I blink my eyes I see a happy face behind my eyelids – two eyes there and a big smile. So it’s going to be a happy day.
Me: That’s good.
D: …But then, do you know why it might not be a happy day?
Me: Oh, why?
D: Just LOOK at those BIG rain clouds. So it might not be a nice day… But maybe it will be a happy day this morning, when the sun’s out, and then a sad day this afternoon when it’s rainy.
Me: It won’t a sad day this afternoon – you’ve got Art Club!
D: But it will rain at play time! The rain clouds might think, “We should go away.” Or they might think, “We should get some water down there so they can live.” So there’s two choices.
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Birthday blues
February 20, 2013
D: I WISH my birthday was today.
Me: I’m sure you do.
D: It’s just not fair that it’s not until June – that’s such a long time away.
Me: It will be here soon enough.
D: But I get so BORED waiting for it! Can we change it?
Me: Your birthday is one thing we can’t change – what are you going to do, get born again?!
D: Oh. No.
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Warm and toasty in the snow
January 15, 2013
Me: What did you talk about at school today?
D: What’s our favourite weather.
Me: And what’s YOUR favourite weather?
D: Snow… No… Sun.
Me: Why’s that?
D: Because when it’s sunny you get all toasted and you don’t need the heating on. What’s your favourite weather?
Me: I like a bit of snow sometimes and I like a bit of sun sometimes. I don’t much like rain though.
D: No, I don’t like rain. What’s your favourite year?
Me: Do you mean time of year?
D: Yes.
Me: I like ALL of the seasons – they all have something to offer – Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Although I don’t much like it when leaves fall off the trees in Autumn and ALL decide to fall into our garden.
D: Do you want to know my favourite season?
Me: Go on.
D: Summer – because it NEVER rains in Summer. It’s sunny EVERY day.
Me: It rains sometimes in Summer – what would happen to all the plants if it didn’t rain?
D: Yes – they’d die…
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Predictions for 2013
January 1, 2013
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D: They’re two hedgehogs [centre].
That’s the sun [top left]; they’re some trees [top right]; and they’re some flowers [beneath the trees].
Me: It’s good – is that a rainbow over the hedgehogs?
D: No, it’s just some detail – we had to add some detail, so that’s my detail.
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