Upstart 10 Nov 09.pdf - Grocott's Mail

14 UPSTART 10 NOVEMBER 2009ART, GAMES AND PUZZLES...I have 500 slices ofapple, 4 slices ofapple make a wholeapple. How manyapples did 500 slicesmake?Answer: 125 applesA drivertookpassengers to thetrain station. It is anhour and a half away.When he drove back,there were still manycars on the road. Yetit took him only 90minutes to get back.How come?Answer: an hourand a half equals 90minutesCompiled by Luvuyo NdayiGrade 8Archie Mbolekwa SeniorPrimary SchoolMIND GAMESThere is a man whocan shave ten timesa day and still have afull beard and thickhair. Who is he?Answer: a barberWhat is as big as anelephant's shadowbut doesn't weighanything?Answer: theelephant's shadowIs half of our plus twomultiplied by half oftwo multiplied bya quarter of eightmultiplied by zeroequal to eight or four?Answer: zerobecause any numbermultiplied by zero iszeroYou cannot take apicture of a housewith a broken roof.Why not?Answer:becauseyou can only usea camera not abroken roof to takea pictureCompiled by Xolelwa DonyeliGrade 8Archie Mbolekwa SeniorPrimary SchoolJOKESA kind woman walksdown the street oneday. She notices avery small boy tryingto press a doorbell,but the boy is tooshort and can't reachthe doorbell. Thewoman goes to helphim. She smiles at theboy and presses thedoorbell for him andasks “now what youngman?”The boy replies “nowwe run!”How many sheepdoes it take to make awool jersey?None. Sheep can'tknit.Why did Tigger stickhis head in the toilet?He was looking forPooh!What has four eyesbut no face?Mississippi!Why was 6 afraid of 7?Because 789!Compiled by Xolelwa DonyeliGrade 8Archie Mbolekwa SeniorPrimary SchoolART STRAIGHT FROM THE COMPUTERWe, the Ntaba Mariansstarted the computerlessons in August and everyWednesday we went to thecomputer room at schoolwhere we met with Shireen,Ben and Faizal. On the firstday we introduced ourselvesby using Microsoft Word towrite about ourselves. Benand Faizal on that day taughtus how to write in capitalletters, change the font,underline words and writein bold. They also taught ushow to type quickly usingboth hands.On the second Wednesday,they gave us a task of writingpoems and articles. Theytaught us to use MicrosoftExcel, how to save and howto paint. We also learnt howto design our own studytimetable for the exams byusing Excel. During theselessons we learnt a lot abouthow to use computers. Ifsomeone in the Upstartgroup at Ntaba Maria wereto say that they don't knowhow to use a computer,we would be shocked.As Upstart members wewould like to say thanks tothe Upstart leaders. Thankyou for organising thesecomputer lessons for us, theywere really helpful.By Thandiswa NqowanaOyintanda MtyoboVuyokazi TwaniNoziphiwo MabijaNolubabalo SergeantSiphosethu SoxujwaSanda NgaloNomsindisi MngxumaXolela MakhasiHilton SnymanNtaba Maria Primary SchoolThese three imagesare some of thework created oncomputer by NtabaMaria Upstartmembers