Maria Healey

Hmmm, an interesting question. Have you ever thought about your different names? For years, when I lived in England, my christian name – Maria – was so unusual that I was the only student at high school with this name. So what, you might think. Ok, but what if I tell you there were over 1500 kids at my school! Now you can understand how different my name was. Then, I lived in Greece and Maria is one of the most popular names and every other girl was called it – I didn’t feel so special then! Now, I live in Oz and Maria is sort of normal and I’m kind of in the middle, which leads me into our class survey. We want to know about your names, how special are you? Do you even like your name? Do you have fantasy name that you would love to be known by?Take some time to fill it out and I’ll post the results later.

Click Here to take survey

See ya!

You should see the large collection of beautiful books that have been donated for the book swap. I have been pleasantly surprised by how many new or near new books there are. Let me say a big thank you to all of you that have contributed and I look forward to everyone’s excitement on the day when they get to choose books FOR FREE!!!

Hey, it was nice to see some comments from some students in 6R. I hope you all keep visiting.

Due to popular demand, I have posted a couple of ‘What am I?” riddles. I’ll post the answers next week – please remind me if I forget!!! – here goes:

I have three letters, and I read the same forward and backwards. I rhyme with a word that is important to everyone. What word am I?

I am a three digit number. My second digit is four times more than my third digit. My first digit is seven less than my second digit. What number am I?

Only 2 for now, if they prove popular, I’ll add more.

In response to a comment by Tori, we are loving rocket racers!! There are some crazy cars up in 6H. Robbie Bell has designed a hover car which amazingly went quite far. Josh, I really love learning about space. We had a mindblowing conversation in the grade about time travel and evolution the other day. We were all interested in how life came to be after the big bang. Do any fellow blogsters have any theories? I’d also love to read anyone’s opinions on alternative life forms living in space. Do aliens exist? Are they as advanced as us?

I finally managed to get a picture on my blog. Tried a couple of times before with no success. Let’s bung another on while I’m at it. Here’s a beauty showing the Emu (according to Indigenous Aussies) ,otherwise known as the Milky Way.

Here’s the Catalyst stuff mentioned earlier – I’ve also added this to my blogroll.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/Moon/

some of the images are brilliant.

Check out the old days and have a squiz at what your grandparents watched back in 1969!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/interactive/2009/jul/02/apollo-11-moon-landing

After letting you all know about Catalyst, I forgot to watch it! Too much Masterchef. Anyhow, thanks to the wonderful world of technology, I was able to attach a link. Check it out!