tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19440497986433277612024-02-24T15:58:17.110-08:00Meet the SqueeblesDiscover a world of fun whilst learning with the Squeebles.KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-14038242107572467522015-02-06T05:41:00.001-08:002015-02-06T05:41:26.366-08:00Design a Rocket Competition!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We need your help! We'd love you to get out your paints, pens or pencils to design us a rocket to feature in the next educational Squeebles app! We'll be awarding a £25 Amazon voucher to the winner to share with their family or school and you'll be credited for your design within the app!<br />
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The app will contain lots of different rockets designs and we'd love yours to be one of them. Here are just a few of the ones our inventors have designed so far. As you can see, you can take a couple of different approaches with your design: you can just go wild decorating the rocket so that it looks fantastic; you can draw a scene on the rocket, or you can turn your rocket into something...like Big Ben, or a strawberry milkshake. Think as wide and wild as you can and come up with something you think is fantastic and that you'd like to see in one of the Squeebles apps!<br />
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You'll need to get your skates on with this though, because our inventors are not too far off finishing the next Squeebles app and for your rocket to have a chance of being included, you'll need to get your finished design to us within the next two weeks, by midday on Monday 23rd February 2015!<br />
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Please ask your parent or teacher to email a scan or photo of your design to whizz@meetthesqueebles.com, as well as asking them to read the terms and conditions below - they'll need to agree to these when they send in your entry!<br />
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We can't wait to see what you come up with! We'll be announcing a winning rocket shortly after the competition closing date!<br />
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Whizz :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Terms & Conditions:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Thank you so much for entering our competition! The winning rocket will be reproduced by KeyStageFun as a digital rocket in keeping with our other rockets in terms of style, but all elements of the design will be taken as faithfully as possible from the entrant's drawing. The copyright and ownership of the finished rocket we create from an entrant's design will belong to Ian & Florence Knapp / KeyStageFun.
Each entrant confirms that their drawing and all associated information is their own and does not infringe anyone else's copyright in any way. Ian and Florence Knapp / KeyStageFun cannot be held responsible for any infringement of copyright unknown to them within any entry.
If desired by the winner and confirmed by their parent or guardian, we are happy to credit them within the finished app as the creator of one of the rockets.
The winner shall not receive any monies or benefit in any other way from the sale of any apps or other materials featuring their rocket in the future.
Each entrant agrees that their rocket may be used in promotional materials produced to promote KeyStageFun in the future as well as any other apps, video content, television production, books or other written or visual materials produced for sale or promotional use in the future.
By submitting an entry you agree that it may be featured on the KeyStageFun website/Facebook/Twitter or Meet the Squeebles blog (along with the entrant's first name and age if the entrant's parent or guardian gives permission for this). KeyStageFun have already created many, as yet unpublished, rockets: if one of the rockets which appears in the final app happens to be similar to an entrant's design which was not chosen as a winner, KeyStageFun cannot be held responsible for this coincidence. </span>KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-74929256494015706482014-10-13T09:34:00.001-07:002014-10-13T09:59:33.526-07:00Making Squeebles From Leaves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We know that in many parts of the world it's now Autumn or Fall, as we read about these things in books, and we think that the idea of all the leaves turning golden and falling from the trees sounds like quite an exciting one. We've even watched a video of what we believe you humans would call 'leaf-kicking' - which looks like huge amounts of fun! We asked our inventors to send some leaves through the Squeeshoot to us, so that we could see how your leaves differ from ours. The main thing seems to be the thickness: our leaves tend to be quite substantial - perhaps a few centimetres thick! We were surprised by how thin the leaves from our inventors' world are - some were so thin that they were almost translucent (that means that you can see light shining through them. Our thicker leaves are <i>opaque</i>, which means you can't see anything at all through them!)<br />
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Anyway, we set our inventors a challenge: we'd like you to recreate a Squeeble from leaves! They agreed and told us that they'd make Leefee. We weren't very impressed by that, because Leafee already looks just like a leaf! Instead we challenged them to make Bitsy, who has quite a few tricky shapes, as well as some very fiddly-looking eyelashes.<br />
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So, knowing that we weren't going to let them get away with making a leafy Leefee, our inventors agreed. They gathered leaves when they took <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/a-questionnaire-about-nell.html" target="_blank">Nell</a> out for a long walk one day and then found some more in their garden.<br />
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They told us that they found recreating certain parts of Bitsy really tricky. Squeebles only really look like Squeebles if they have perfectly round eyes, but they couldn't find any leaves that were just right, so eventually they decided to use a hole punch to cut circles from the leaves.<br />
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And then they arranged the leaves, seeds and rose petals they'd found, until they'd created something that looked a bit like Bitsy! We love it.<br />
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If it's Autumn or Fall where you are right now, we'd love to see if you make any of your own leaf creatures! You can always ask a parent to send any photos or artwork to whizz@meetthesqueebles.com <br />
If you'd like to make a Squeeble leaf creature, but can't decide which one of us to leafify* you can find each of us on the 'Who's Who' sheet, available in the <a href="http://keystagefun.co.uk/fun-stuff/" target="_blank">Fun Stuff</a> section of our inventors' website.<br />
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* Leafify is not actually a real word. But we think it ought to be.KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-73600254652270131372014-07-04T04:18:00.002-07:002014-07-04T04:19:26.751-07:00A New App! Squeebles Maths Race!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello Friends,<br />
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I'm so excited to tell you about the latest app featuring me and lots of my Squeebles friends! It's called Squeebles Maths Race and it's the first app that our inventors have ever made where two children can play on it at exactly the same time!<br />
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This is how the screen will look when you're playing against a friend or a brother or sister - you can sit on opposite sides of the screen from one another, eyes down, fingers ready to move at lightening speed as you prepare to race your flipflish through the Rushing River!<br />
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In Squeebles Maths Race, you can pick a Squeeble and a Flipfish for it to ride on and, with each question that you answer, your Flipfish will be propelled toward the finish line! And you don't have to find someone who is at exactly the same level as you are with answering mental arithmetic questions, because the app lets you set the difficulty level of the questions you're answering so that you can have a fair race against siblings <i>or even</i> parents! Yes, your parents can do really, really tricky subtraction questions, like 795 - 426, while you're mastering your times tables…or that could be the other way around if you're already a maths whizz!).<br />
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But there are probably lots of times when you might want to practise some maths questions, but don't have anyone to race against…for those times you can race against my Squeeble friends!<br />
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There's Min, who is a beginner when it comes to maths - she takes a little bit longer to work things out at the moment and if you're trying to learn a new times table or work best when you're not under pressure, Min is the perfect race opponent for you…and if you don't win every time, Min will be eternally grateful.<br />
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Leefee is a rookie - he's actually been putting in quite a lot of time recently with his mental arithmetic, but he's still working on building up his speed.<br />
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Sav is a pro when it comes to maths - if you're feeling brave and fairly confident in your maths skills, Sav may be just the right opponent to take your mathematical racing speed up to the next level as you'll have to think quickly!<br />
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Sapphire is a maths expert. Choose to race her on those days where you wake up and your brain feels sharp and ready to do some rapid mathematical somersaults, because you'll need to be on good form to win a race against her.<br />
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Sal is a maths legend! Only challenge her to a race when you're feeling particularly confident…she tends to have her Flipfish cutting through the water like it's being pulled by a jet ski as she answers questions at lightning speed!<br />
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And then there's Crunch. Super Legend. If you can beat Crunch in a race, I think you have the right to call yourself a Mathematical Super Legend too. His flipfish is just a streak, a blur, a rush in the water. In fact, he travels so quickly that barely a ripple appears - it's like he was never even there! If you can beat him, I, Whizz, am in awe of your crazy maths skills.<br />
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Not only will you have the fun of racing your friends, family or classmates in this app, but you'll also be awarded stars for answering questions correctly. You can save up stars and then trade them for different Squeebles and flipfish to ride on during the races!<br />
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If you're interested in trying out the new app, you can ask your parent or teacher to take a look at our <a href="http://keystagefun.co.uk/times-tables-apps/squeebles-maths-race/" target="_blank">website</a> for more information or suggest that they search for 'Squeebles Maths Race' in the app store!<br />
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I hope you love the new app!<br />
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Take care,<br />
Whizz :)KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-41619256609073598672014-05-12T04:27:00.000-07:002014-05-12T04:27:16.828-07:00Design a Squeebles T-shirt: Win a Kindle Fire!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello Friends,<br />
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I have two pieces of incredible news to share with you! The first is that there are now t-shirts with me and some of the other Squeebles on them! And the second, is that we want <b>you</b> to design a t-shirt to sit alongside these, which may be worn by Squeebles fans all over the world!!! Keep reading…there's a shiny new Kindle Fire to be won, as well as a copy of the t-shirt you've designed!<br />
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Here are some of the t-shirts that are out there right now (if you'd like one added to your birthday wish list, your parents can find more information <a href="http://www.keystagefun.co.uk/shop.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>). What we'd love you to do is to design a Squeebles scene to go on brand new t-shirt. It can either feature:<br />
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Our inventors love creating Squeebles from your drawings, and this time they're really excited about the idea of using some of your artwork to create a whole scene! We can't wait to see how it will look!!!<br />
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This is the prize if you create the winning design: <b>A Kindle Fire HD</b> for your family or school (depending on whether it was your parent or teacher who emailed in your entry); <b>a t-shirt</b> showing your own digitised design; <b>huge pride</b> in the knowledge that your t-shirt design may be worn by Squeeble fans around the world.<br />
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You have until June 13th to enter, so don't waste any time gathering together your art materials! Your parents or teachers can find out more about the terms and conditions for the competition and where to email your entries to <a href="http://www.keystagefun.co.uk/competition-design-a-t-shirt.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Here on Squeeble Island we've been busy making up our own tongue twisters. See if you can say them aloud and then find out how many times you can repeat each one before your tongue gets in a twist. Let's begin with the one that Max made up about the Math's Monster!<br />
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Tongue twisters are fun and easy to make up. Why not think up some of your own? Start with your name, or the name of one of your friends, and then think of some words that start with the same first letter as their name or which sound similar to it and go from there. We asked Jingo to do this and this is what he came up with:<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">If write any of your own that cause your tongue to go positively loopy when you try to say them, I'd love to be able to share them with the other Squeebles. Just ask a parent or teacher to email them to me at whizz@meetthesqueebles.com</span><br />
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I thought I'd tell you a story about a mystery we uncovered last summer. We'd been playing a new game in The Lake with the Flipfish and if you take a look on the <a href="http://www.keystagefun.co.uk/Images/Map-Flat.png" target="_blank">Map of Squeeble Island</a>, you'll be able to see exactly where we were. That summer, we loved racing on the Flipfish up the narrow passage of water, around 'M' Island and then back down the channel again to a finish line which was usually marked out by two Squeebles treading water (we took this in turns as it was a tiring job)!<br />
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This was normally great fun, although we did get very wet: Flipfish are slippery creatures and it's a struggle to stay on the fish's back. We'd normally fall off several times in each race and the Flipfish would have to swim over to the bankside in order for us to climb back onto their backs, as it's too tricky to do this from the middle of the lake. </div>
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One day Bash was riding one of the Flipfish, racing against Juju. He was having a particularly good run - he'd made it all the way up the narrow passage of the lake, then all the way around 'M' Island and was on the home strait, not too far from where Ruby and Jingo were marking out the finish line. But suddenly, when a win felt almost certain, he fell off, sliding down the side of his Flipfish like a dribble of ice-cream on a hot day. And then he was gone. We waited for Bash to bob back up, but his cloud shaped head didn't appear. A terrible silence fell over the Squeeble spectators standing on the bank and we all stared at one another. Bash's Flipfish ducked beneath the water at the spot where Bash had disappeared and what happened next was really quite terrible, although we didn't know any of this as it was happening. Only afterwards. </div>
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Bash went from being lost in the water, to suddenly being trapped inside a Flipfish! He looked around. He could see the fish's insides! The bones of the Flipfish's body were outlined through walls of pink, fleshy padding and everything had a strange dark orange glow. It sounded just like it does when you put your head under the water in the bath and can hear all the normal noises swishing around, muffled and far away. There were strange things inside the Flipfish too. This is what Bash said he saw: a frying pan; something that looked like a very old sewing machine; a coat hanger; a football AND a tennis ball, which both rolled around a lot and bounced off the fish's bones; part of a sofa, a violin; and a Squeeberang that he never even knew existed!<br />
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The Flipfish appeared above the water, looking slightly shaken. And then we saw something very strange indeed. Have you ever seen a fish cough? Neither had we. But as we stood on the bankside, we watched as Bash's Flipfish began to cough. Each time he did, his tail would flip up in the air and the middle of his body would bulge in and out, and bubbles would appear on the surface of the water around his scales. Nothing happened when he coughed the first two times. On his third cough, a tennis ball flew straight out of his mouth, hitting Ruby on the head, where she was still treading water as a finish-line-marker. On his fourth cough, an old violin with no strings shot through the air, falling into a pile of broken pieces as it hit the bank. And on his fifth cough...<br />
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Inside the Flipfish, Bash was beginning to get really, really worried. Things were flying past him and then disappearing altogether. Bash is really, really noisy ALL THE TIME, but suddenly his voice didn't feel very loud. 'H E L P!!!', he bellowed desperately. 'H E L P!!! H E…..' and suddenly, before he could finish the word, he was being catapulted out of the Flipfish's body and skimming past the fish's teeth, before being shot up into the air to the rapturous applause of all the Squeebles standing on the bankside! It was a glorious sight!<br />
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Bash was fine, just a bit shaken, and once he'd settled himself and was happily eating an ice-cream from Ruby's ice-cream parlour, he began to tell everyone all about his adventure. The thing that fascinated us most was the golden Squeeberang that Bash saw inside the Flipfish. No one could ever remember losing one, or seeing one that matched Bash's description…so we had an exciting mystery on Squeeble Island and we were giddy to think that there might be a hidden Squeeberang inside every Flipfish!<br />
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Based on Bash's description, our inventors later designed a Squeeberang just like the golden one that Bash saw inside the Flipfish and it's available to win in the Squeebles Spelling app! On Squeeble Island, to this day, it's still trapped inside the Flipfish, so the only time that we can ever ride on it is inside the Spelling app. Do look out for it when it comes to trading in your stars for doing well with your learning your spellings - we LOVE that Squeeberang!<br />
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P.s. If you don't already use the Squeebles Spelling app, Squeeberangs are the boomerang-like gliders that we ride on in the mini-game inside the app!KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-74440635087872284662014-01-21T03:41:00.001-08:002014-01-22T02:37:51.768-08:00Meet Flame!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You might remember that last year our inventors ran a 'Design a Squeeble' competition, where the winner, <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/a-winner.html" target="_blank">Martha</a>, was awarded the prize of having her jellylicious Squeeble, Wobble, appear in our latest app, as well as winning a shiny new iPad! The entries were so impressive, that <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/our-runners-up.html" target="_blank">FOUR runner up designs</a> were also chosen to feature alongside Wobble!</div>
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The inventors' own children obviously couldn't enter the competition, but when their son designed this squeeble called Flame, they decided that they loved him so much, that they'd make room for him in the new app too!</div>
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<b>Personality:</b> Flame is very kind and excitable. He likes doing magic and is very pleased when he gets a trick right, which is not very often. </div>
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I love seeing children's designs for new squeebles so much that I asked my inventors to give me my very own email address - you can now send me, and the other Squeebles, your drawings, stories or questions to whizz(at)meetthesqueebles(dot)com (ask a parent or teacher first though!). I'll try to feature as much of your artwork as I can here on my blog and you never know, if we really love your design, we might even try to persuade our inventors to feature him or her in a future app! </div>
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Happy new year to you! I hope you had a great Christmas!<br />
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Our inventors have told us that it's probably your first week back at school after a long holiday. After so long pottering about with your family, getting up late and playing with new toys, we're guessing that the first day back may feel very tiring! So, if you hadn't already noticed this on our website, we wanted to give a you a treat to come home to: a map! Of Squeeble Island!<br />
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We've talked about so many different places around Squeeble Island here on the blog, and so many of those places also appear in the apps that we feature in, so we thought that you may enjoy seeing the whole thing laid out in one place, so that you can properly imagine it all. There are also lots of things on there that you might not have heard about yet, so you might want to have a good look around and study it for new things. I'm really looking forward to telling you all about it - there are so many stories to share.<br />
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In the meantime, you can either look at it in full, enormous-scale on your computer, over on the KeyStageFun website on the <a href="http://www.keystagefun.co.uk/fun-stuff.html" target="_blank">'Fun Stuff'</a> page, or you can ask a parent or teacher if they'd be happy to print a copy out for you to keep.<br />
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We hope you enjoy the map and that you have a great first week back at school!<br />
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In my last post I told you all about Wobble, the Squeeble who was created by the winner of our 'Design a Squeeble and Win an iPad' competition. Today, I want to introduce you to the four new Squeebles who have been designed by our runners-up!<br />
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On the left (can you remember how to tell your left from your right? If not, you might want to learn <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-tell-your-left-from-your-right.html" target="_blank">my simple tip</a> for remembering!), is Ti, who was designed by Nicole, aged 6! She says that he likes to fly and swim! We can't wait to meet him to find out whether he likes to fly around on a Squeeberang or whether he can ACTUALLY fly! Flying isn't something that any other Squeeble has ever been able to do, so we're really excited to speak to Ti when he arrives here on Squeeble Island! </div>
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On the right is Leefee, drawn by Joel, aged 10. Apparently Leefee is a bit of a chameleon who loves to hide by blending in the with the leaves on trees and bushes. Joel also wrote that he loves making friends - we're so pleased to hear that as even though we're really excited about all these new Squeebles arriving, we're also feeling slightly nervous and hoping that they'll be all be friendly and want to join in with our fun! </div>
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And here's Frilly, with her beautiful head of frilly petal-hair! Jemima, aged 8, her inventor, didn't say anything about Frilly particularly enjoying hide and seek, but we're wondering if she'll be just as good as Leefee at this game as she will blend in perfectly when she's crouched down in a flower bed! Jemima says that Frilly holds a world record for skipping! She must have developed an excellent way of getting the rope to fly high above her head each time she takes a skip, as those petals look like an added obstacle for the skipping rope! We can't wait to learn her technique for perfect skipping.<br />
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And finally, meet Kaboom, designed by Louis, aged 9. Kaboom not only looks like a volcano, but apparently he occasionally makes loud, explosive noises to scare people! Some of the Squeebles here are feeling a little wary...we're thinking of wearing ear mufflers as we're wondering if he's going to arrive with a bang! (ha ha!) Ruby is busy making some chilli flavoured ice-cream to welcome him with, as Louis writes that he loves spicy foods!<br />
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Thank you so much to our friends who designed these amazing Squeebles to come and live with us! And thank you to all the others who entered the competition but didn't win this time...we wish that you all could have won...but we're sure that they'll be another competition in the future.<br />
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Hello Friends,<br />
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Thank you so much for all the amazing entries that you sent in for our 'Design a Squeeble and Win an iPad' competition. We were so impressed by what a creative and talented bunch Squeeble-users are! Your art work was stunning! I wish that every single one of the Squeebles you designed could have come to live with us here on Squeeble Island!<br />
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We're so excited to introduce our soon-to-be-new-friend Wobble to you! Wobble is designed by Martha, aged 7, and was chosen as the overall winning entry. Wobble sounded characterful, looked bright and colourful and, importantly, Martha had designed something that looked so Squeeble-like! Our inventors have already arranged for Martha's new iPad to be sent to her and in a few months time Wobble will appear with us in the next Squeebles app! Here's what Martha said about Wobble when she submitted her entry:<br />
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While Wobble is making his way to us here on Squeeble Island, we asked our inventors to send some questions over to Martha, so that we could find out some more about him. Martha's answers will appear in purple, as we think that may be one of her favourite colours.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">1. We love the new Squeeble, Wobble, which you've designed. We can't wait until he arrives on Squeeble Island so that we can see if a torch light really does shine through him! Have you ever done this with a real jelly that's not a Squeeble? Did the light shine through it?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">2. Apart from obviously being a bit Wobbly, are there any other things that we should know about Wobble to help him settle in here on Squeeble Island? Any things that will make him really happy and feel welcome?</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">He eats blueberries and raspberries, and likes to drink Cloudberry juice. Do you have any there? He would really like a candy floss bed to sleep in! </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Also Wobble's favourite ice cream is Chocolate and Raspberry!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">3. Is there anything that Wobble is scared of?</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Wobble is scared of loud noises. They make him jump, and then he goes all wibbly wobbly!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">4. We noticed that Wobble has little blue splodges over him. Are these blueberries sprinkled throughout his Jellyish body or something else?</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Yes they are blueberries! It's because he eats so many!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica;">5. Please could you tell us which Squeeble you are most like yourself and why?</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">I think I am most like Max. I love playing outside in the woods. I have also climbed up a really big mountain in Norway! </span></span><br />
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I hope you enjoyed reading Martha's answers to my questions! We are busy preparing Wobble's candy floss bed...it's not as big and fluffy as we were hoping it would be though as we keep nibbling on little bits of it...<br />
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I just wanted to remind you that your chance to design a new friend for us is coming to an end this Sunday! Please hurry to send in your entries - we'd love to see your drawings, paintings, collages or even your own computer-drawn Squeeble!<br />
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The winning entry will feature in the next app AND you'll also be sent a shiny new iPad for you and your family (or you and your school, if you're entering with your school).<br />
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If you'd like to enter, ask your parent or teacher to take a look at the competition rules and where they should email a copy of your design to. They can find all the details they'll need <a href="http://www.keystagefun.co.uk/competition-design-a-squeeble-sept-2013.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Our inventors have told us that they're looking forward to looking through all the entries next Monday morning! And here on Squeeble Island excitement is mounting...!<br />
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Whizz :)KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-20338173481832934142013-10-21T05:19:00.002-07:002013-10-21T11:41:26.770-07:00Our new Squeebles Word Search app!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We like word searches that contain lots of words about a particular subject, because just thinking about that group of words can transport you to a different place while you're hunting for the words. On a really rainy day, looking for sunshiny words can make you feel like you're actually on a summer holiday if you don't look out of the window! So, we suggested some topics for word searches that our inventors could use. There are word searches about: clothes, ice cream; football; outer space; growing things; pirates; the ocean, pets, baking and making things; fairy tales; nature; Christmas; summer holidays; music; sports; parties; food; around town; animals and...erm....us, Squeebles! Once you've chosen the subject, you can then choose whether the search contains easy, medium or hard words, so that you get a word search that's just right for you. </div>
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Zoot's pet squog (you might remember from <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/meet-onion-our-squog.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a> that a squog is a cross between a Squeeble and a dog), Onion, is the star of the pet race and it's your job to help him to collect stars and bones, jump over toadstools, piles of logs, and even on to flowers! While you do this, you must be very careful to try not to EVER bump into the Spelling Snake's head, because that will cause Onion to lose ten of the stars that you've just helped him to collect! </div>
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Today I wanted to tell you about how you can use our Squeebles Spelling Test app in new and exciting ways! The Squeebles Spelling app usually allows your teacher or parent to set up tests for you using your weekly spelling list or just any words that they know you're finding tricky. But did you know that it can also help you to learn another language?<br />
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You can ask your parent or teacher to enter new, foreign words for you to learn to say AND spell. They can enter short phrases or words, record them for you to hear, and even tell you what they mean in English.<br />
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Some foreign languages use special characters or accented letters in their words, so our inventors have created a separate keypad in the app including the most commons ones so that you can spell the words perfectly. Just tap on the green EA key on the keyboard to access them and then tap again to switch back to the regular keypad.<br />
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To make your tests foreign-letters-friendly, you'll need to ask your parent or teacher to turn on the 'Foreign Characters' setting under your player name in the Parents' Zone, so that it's glowing orange, like the one above! They can then use the keypad with extra characters too:<br />
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Mmm. Someone is being tested on how to say 'This is delicious' in French...I wonder if they've been eating one of Ruby's ice-creams...<br />
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Finally, I wanted to show you a picture that our inventors received this week. It's drawn by Tom, who's aged 6. Tom's parents said that they would be happy for me to share it on our blog with you, so here it is - you can see Mud, Bebe, me, Bitsy and Raino! Merci beaucoup, Tom, c'est fantastique! (that means 'Thank you very much, Tom, it's fantastic!' in French). We love to see your artwork, so please do email it to our inventors and I'll try to share as much as I can here on my blog. And remember, if you enjoy drawing Squeebles you may like to enter <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/design-squeeble-and-win-ipad.html" target="_blank">our competition</a> where you can win an iPad and have your own Squeeble design featured in the next app.<br />
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Today I'm excited to tell you that our inventors are running a competition asking you to design a new Squeeble to come and live with us here on Squeeble Island. Not only will this new Squeeble join our fun here, it will also appear in the next app, meaning the winning design will be seen by hundreds of thousands of children all around the world!<br />
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We're going to help our inventors to pick out the Squeeble design we love the best and the winning artist will be sent an brand new iPad!<br />
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This is the third time we've run this competition (although never before with the added prize of a shiny new iPad) and I want to show you how our inventors have created a Squeeble based on your drawings in the past. You can see the original drawing on the left and the finished design created by our inventors on the right.<br />
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First, here's Joshua's Squeeble, Raino, which was the winner of one of our other competitions. Joshua's character is based on a raindrop, which we loved! Raino also appeared in the app's credits.<br />
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We've also featured Squeeble designs from Poppy, who invented Bebe:<br />
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And Seth, who created Mud:<br />
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Aren't they fantastic! We love them. Just think, if Poppy, Seth and Joshua had never drawn those pictures, Bebe, Mud and Raino wouldn't even exist. We're so excited about who you might invent to come and live with us next. We can't wait to see your pictures and read your description of their personalities.<br />
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You can either enter with your school (for a chance of winning the iPad for your class) or ask your mum or dad to photograph or scan in your picture and send it to us (and if you won, the iPad would be given to you and your family to use). You can design as many Squeebles as you like and enter in one or both of these ways.<br />
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If you'd like to enter your own Squeeble design, ask your parent or teacher to read the entry rules and find out where to send a photo or scan of your design, <a href="http://www.keystagefun.co.uk/competition-design-a-squeeble-sept-2013.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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You might remember that our inventors got a new puppy, Nell, earlier this year. We ask for news of their puppy quite often as we don't have pets here on Squeebles Island. They tell us all about the funny things she does, how cuddly she is, the tricks she's learned and sometimes we watch her through the computer screen. One time she came and licked the screen with her enormous pink tongue and we all ducked down screaming!<br />
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Eventually, our inventors realised that we were beginning to feel a bit jealous of the pets humans have, so they said that they'd design a special Squeeble pet that was just like us, but smaller and more cuddly and mischievous. <br />
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But when our inventors posted the pet through the Squeeshoot to send it to Squeebles Island things didn't go quite as expected.<br />
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The Squeeshoot works in a similar way to a television...only better. To make programmes appear on your television, sound and picture codes are transmitted via radio waves, before being picked up by the receiver inside your television and appearing on your screen. But because the things our inventors send us don't just appear on a screen, but are able to be held in our hands, it's an even more complex process. Sometimes it can go wrong.<br />
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When they sent us our Squeeble pet, they also sent us a picture of their dog, Nell. And as the Squeeble pet and the picture of Nell travelled over the airwaves the two things became mixed up. What arrived was a cross between a dog and a Squeeble and we've ended up with a Squog!<br />
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Even though this isn't quite the pet our inventors had planned for us, our squog is so much fun and we love him. We've called him Onion. At first Onion was shy and we thought that he was a very well-behaved sort of squog...but once he'd settled in he became much more playful...and naughty! He likes digging up our plumatopea plants and running off with them in his mouth (you might remember plumatopeas from <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/plumatopeas.html" target="_blank">another blog post</a> - they're the amazing fruits that grow beneath peacock feathers!).<br />
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He also likes jumping on toadstools and when he sees a row of them he wags his tail and then takes a big run up and jumps on top of them, bouncing along until he falls off. Onion never seems to get hurt though - he's a very sturdy sort of animal! In the evening he's finally run out of energy and he comes and sits next to us in the roundhouse and enjoys having his ears stroked.<br />
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Today I wanted to give a few tips about how to impress the customers at Ruby's Ice-Cream Parlour with your ice-creams when you're playing on our Squeebles Maths Bingo app.<br />
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If you don't have Squeebles Maths Bingo already, it's an app that lets you practice adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying by trying to get five correct answers in a row to make the squares on the grid light up and flash with the word BINGO!<br />
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Playing Maths Bingo is really a game in itself, but you'll also earn ice-cream flavours and cones to use in Ruby's ice-cream parlour! You can create any ice-cream you like with different flavours, sprinkles and sauces that you've won. Once you've made the perfect ice-cream you can then choose any one of the Squeebles that you've won and present it to them to eat...they will then give your ice-cream marks out of 10!<br />
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But this is where things get tricky. Squeeble customers aren't like human customers. We like some really odd things and each of us has very different taste. Some Squeebles can be made happy by giving them the same kind of things that I've heard humans might like (such as a chocolate ice-cream with a wafer in the top) but others will prefer a baked bean ice-cream with broccoli sauce drizzled over it.<br />
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I thought you might like it if I gave you some clues about how you can make certain customers happy. So this morning I went to see Ruby at her ice-cream parlour and asked her what kind of flavours some of the other Squeebles were asking for.<br />
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<li>Ruby told me that Raino goes dizzy for sweet, gooey ice-creams.</li>
<li>She said that Jingo loves an ice-cream that has a very weird combination of flavours.</li>
<li>She revealed that Bitsy is a very healthy sort of Squeeble, preferring fruity or nutty ice-creams. </li>
<li>Bash apparently shares Bitsy's healthiness, but he likes his health to come with a scoop of spiciness and a helping of something weirdly flavoured. </li>
<li>Chalky is well known for loving peanut butter, so it didn't surprise me when Ruby shared with me that Chalky loves nutty and crunchy ice-creams. </li>
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I hope that helps you to make your Squeeble customers even happier! Let me know if you think you've found any flavour combinations that make any of the other Squeebles happy...or ones that you should avoid serving!<br />
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Have you started using the latest Squeebles app yet (that's Squeebles Times Tables 2!)? If you have, you'll no doubt already be playing Bubble-Ball, the mini game within the app that you can earn turns on by doing well in learning your times tables. Today I wanted to tell you all about using Colour Force to help you flick your Bubble-balls even further! </div>
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Using Colour Force, you'll be able to enjoy flinging us over even more amazing distances and will hopefully rack up some fantastic scores. I bet no one has catapulted themselves out of Sparkle Falls into the Swamp Marsh yet and I'd like to help you on your way! (That could be very messy and I'm not actually sure it's possible, but let me know if you manage it). </div>
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When you choose a Squeeble, you'll see a box marked 'CF' and next to it you'll find a colour. CF stands for Colour Force and in the screenshot above, you can see that the CF box has turned purple to match the colour written inside. To achieve the maximum colour force, you should try and use a Squeeble and a bubble ball that have the same colour force.<br />
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I'm so excited to tell you that a new app featuring me and the other Squeebles is now available! You might already have the original Squeebles Times Tables app, which hopefully will already be helping you to learn and practice your tables. That app was the very first Squeebles app that our inventors created...and they decided that it was time to make it just as exciting and interactive as the other apps which came after it.
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The new app has lots of different ways of being tested on your tables and many more things to collect. It also features a game called Bubble Ball! Do you remember the <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/bubble-ball.html" target="_blank">blog post</a> where I told you about a new game we'd been playing after Jingo had accidentally fallen down the Sparkle Falls waterfall, only to find himself being catapulted through the air in a bubble ball after being thwacked by the tail of a flip fish? Well, our inventors decided that you might like to be able to play that game too, so that's right at the centre of the new Squeebles Times Tables 2 app!<br />
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And what is really fantastic is that with every times table you answer correctly, you'll be earning stars to trade in for even better bubble balls, which will increase the distances you can travel...or flip fish with more powerful tails, which can flick you further!
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The Parents' Zone now includes detailed stats of all your progress so that you can wow your mum, dad, grandparents or teachers with just how much you're learning.<br />
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And don't worry, the things that you loved about the original app, such as finding out all about us, are still included. Oh look, here's my own card above!<br />
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If you think you might like to try learning your times tables using the new app, then your parents can find it by searching 'Squeebles Times Tables 2' in the app store or they can find out more about the new app <a href="http://www.keystagefun.co.uk/squeebles-times-tables-2.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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We can't wait to hear what you think of our new app!<br />
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Whizz :)KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-62899847809447527222013-06-17T08:35:00.000-07:002013-06-17T08:38:17.150-07:00A quiz: which animal are you? Hello Friends,<br />
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It's Whizz here. It seems like a long time ago since we told you that our inventors had invited a puppy to come and live with them. We asked for some photos of her and our inventor sent us pictures of her most recent trip to the beach. We feel slightly worried: she looks huge!<br />
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We know quite a lot about the animals in the human world now because we've been reading books about them. We thought you might like the quiz that we made up for each other - it's all about which animal you're most like.<br />
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Just answer the questions and note down on a piece of paper whether your answer is a, b, c, d or e. At the end count up how many of each letter you had. Whichever letter appears most often is the animal that you're most similar to!<br />
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<b>What would be your favourite way to spend an afternoon?</b><br />
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a) curled up on my bed with a good book<br />
b) running around at the park with my friends<br />
c) playing on the floats at the swimming pool<br />
d) making a camp in the garden<br />
e) watching television<br />
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<b>Where would you like to live if you could live anywhere?</b><br />
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a) in a cosy house with a lovely warm fire<br />
b) I love people, so I'd like to live wherever my friends and family are<br />
c) close to water<br />
d) in a tree house<br />
e) somewhere near to everything I might need - I don't like to travel too much<br />
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<b>How much do you like to sleep?</b><br />
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a) I wake up in the night, so feel tired sometimes in the day<br />
b) I love to sleep, but when I wake up I'm supercharged and very lively!<br />
c) I'm a light sleeper and don't like to close my eyes too often<br />
d) I love to get up early in the morning<br />
e) I feel quite lively in the summer, but during the winter I just want to stay in bed!<br />
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<b>What do you like to eat?</b><br />
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a) I like meaty and fishy things!<br />
b) I'll eat anything...very quickly!<br />
c) I'm happy to wait for my food until I see something tasty passing by<br />
d) I've got quite a small appetite, so I like tiny treats<br />
e) I like fresh things like salad and vegetables.<br />
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<b>What kind of personality do you have?</b><br />
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a) I'm quite quiet, but I like to cuddle people I know well<br />
b) I'm noisy, confident and love people<br />
c) I'm content. I'm happy watching the world going by<br />
d) I like to have something to keep me busy<br />
e) I'm quite lazy! I like to have a big think about something before I actually do it.<br />
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<b>Which of these activities would you enjoy most?</b><br />
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a) playing chase<br />
b) playing with balls<br />
c) basking in the sun<br />
d) singing<br />
e) thinking<br />
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<b>Which creature are you most like?</b><br />
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If you answered mostly A: you're like a cat - sweet and with a reserved, quiet nature<br />
If you answered mostly B: you're quite like Nell, our inventors' puppy!<br />
If you answered mostly C: if you were an animal you'd be a frog - you love water and like the sun<br />
If you answered mostly D: you're quite like a bird - you love making things, singing and fluttering about all over the place.<br />
If you answered mostly E: you're similiar to a tortoise: sweet natured and thoughtful, you like to do things s l o w l y!<br />
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When I did this quiz I answered mostly B...so maybe I have more in common with Nell, our inventors' puppy than I thought!<br />
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It's been raining on Squeeble Island this week so we've spent a lot of time inside in the roundhouse playing games. I thought you might like to hear about our current favourite, which is a storytelling game called Fortunately, Unfortunately.<br />
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We sit in a circle and take it in turns to tell a story, each saying one line at a time. The first Squeeble opens the story with a sentence. Then the next can say one line, but it must begin with the word 'fortunately'. The next Squeeble then says a line, this time starting their sentence with the word 'unfortunately'. It continues like that, taking it in turns to say a sentence starting with 'fortunately' or 'unfortunately. The end of the game normally comes when we are all laughing too much to carry on speaking.<br />
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Here's one of our stories:<br />
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<b>Ruby</b> <b>(who was balancing upside-down on her head at this point): </b>One day Whizz was walking to my ice cream parlour...<br />
<b>Jingo:</b> Fortunately, it was a lovely, sunny day, so Whizz was feeling very excited about eating an ice-cream.<br />
<b>Trig: </b>Unfortunately, a large crack appeared in the ground so that Whizz couldn't get to the ice-cream parlour.<br />
<b>Lex:</b> Fortunately, Whizz found a ladder which he could lay over the crack and use as a temporary bridge!<br />
<b>Globbo: </b>Unfortunately, the ladder wasn't very strong and it began to snap!<br />
<b>Toastie:</b> Fortunately, Whizz was able to cling onto one of the rungs of the ladder and then swing from rung to rung until he reached safety.<br />
<b>Zuma: </b>Unfortunately, as soon as he reached safety a large and very hungry seagull swooped down and flew off with him.<br />
<b>Pip: </b>Fortunately, the seagull wasn't very strong and Whizz fell from its evil beak!<br />
<b>Swipe:</b> Unfortunately, he landed in the sea.<br />
<b>Flush: </b>Fortunately, Whizz was a very good swimmer and swam back to the Island.<br />
<b>Baz:</b> Unfortunately, it was the wrong island!<br />
<b>Mud: </b>Fortunately, the new island was full of cherries though, which are Whizz's favourite food!<br />
<b>Raino: </b>Unfortunately, Whizz ate so many that he began to feel rather unwell and turned bright green.<br />
<b>Spoon: </b>Fortunately, this meant that he blended in well with the grass.<br />
<b>Chalky: </b>Because unfortunately, there was a Squeeble-eating monster on the loose!<br />
<b>Zabba:</b> Fortunately, Whizz's camouflage was so good that the Squeeble-eating monster didn't see him.<br />
<b>Gloobie:</b> Unfortunately though, he ran straight over him and squashed him flat like a green pancake.<br />
<b>Min:</b> Fortunately, he was lying next to a bicycle pump which was able to re-inflate him<br />
<b>Chalky: </b>Unfortunately, he became over-inflated. Eventually he was so big that he covered the whole of the cherry island and the sea too!<br />
<b>Bramble: </b>Fortunately, when Whizz began blocking out the sun, Trig noticed there was a problem and began to think up a plan.<br />
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Our story didn't get much further as we all asked Trig what his plan would be in that situation and Trig replied that his only option would be to pop Whizz to let the air out. We all imagined Whizz whizzing around the island like a balloon does when it's deflating.<br />
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It's such a fun game to play on a rainy day or during a car journey and you can play it with a big group or just with two of you. Why don't you try it? If you need inspiration, I'll give a you a good opening sentence, but please don't end up blowing me up with a bicycle pump in your story.<br />
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One day Whizz was sitting in the sun eating Plumatopeas...<br />
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Whizz :)<br />
<br />KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-77933118161389578332013-05-07T02:16:00.000-07:002013-05-07T05:47:35.645-07:00Bubble ballHello Friends,<br />
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We've been busy playing a new game over the last few weeks, one which we discovered quite by accident!<br />
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Jingo was flying his kite over the hills one day when a sudden gust of wind caught it with such unexpected force that Jingo found himself being lifted from the ground! When the wind dropped he found himself plummeting down over Sparkle Falls, the tallest waterfall on Squeeble Island. He somersaulted his way down the waterfall, letting out yelps of horror as he went, terrified of what would happen when he reached the bottom.<br />
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But what happened when he did reach the bottom was almost more surprising than unexpectedly finding yourself hurtling down a waterfall. His landing was surprisingly soft and he could feel himself sinking fast, but somehow he felt quite dry and cosy. It was only when he bobbed up to the surface again that he realised that both himself and his kite were inside a glossy bubble ball that bounced around in the water keeping him perfectly safe.<br />
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But only moments later, one of the large Flipfish, who live in the pool beneath the waterfall, caught Jingo's bubble ball on the end of his tail and flicked him all the way to the other side of it. 'Whoooooooaaaa' Jingo screamed from inside the bubble as he flew through the air before landing in the water and bursting. He was nearer to the water's edge and able to swim quickly to dry land, where he sat for a while, blinking in the sun, feeling quite confused by what had just happened.<br />
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When Jingo told us all about it we were amazed. We couldn't quite believe him. Lex suggested we get Jingo to take us to exactly where he was flying his kite when the gust of wind caught him to see if happened again. We all went up to the top of the hill where Jingo had been. 'I think it was just about here...' he was saying, when suddenly he was blown off his feet again and we watched in amazement as he was carried over to the waterfall and then suddenly dropped right above it. We ran over to the edge and watched as a tiny bubble appeared right at the bottom and then all gasped as we saw a Flipfish hit the bubble with its tail to send Jingo flying!<br />
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A few moments later we could hear Jingo's happy shouts. 'That was amazing! Wooohoooo!' he was shouting.<br />
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And so the next day we all brought our kites up to the top of the hill and when one of us is in just the right spot to catch the wind, the game begins. Squeeble Island is a very, very magical place indeed!<br />
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Whizz :)KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-36650542268638485292013-04-12T08:56:00.000-07:002013-04-12T08:57:26.237-07:00Rainy Days<div>
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We've been busy here on Squeeble Island, so I haven't had time to write on my blog for a quite a few days now. Last week, when it had rained for so many days that the wheels of our Squeeblecarts got stuck in the mud, we all began to feel a little bit bored. Our inventors thought about what might keep us amused and eventually a soft black box appeared through the Squeeshoot - they'd decided to let us borrow their camera! </div>
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We've taken HUNDREDS of photos! We take photos of each others faces so close up that you can see the furry edges of Jingo's eyelashes...<br />
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And then, when the rain had finally stopped, we all went out into the meadow and arranged ourselves into letter shapes to spell out a message for you. It took a while, because it's hard not to wobble about when you're standing on someone's shoulders and even the slightest movement can make a photo blurry. Eventually, Bug managed to take a picture where no-one was wobbling and about to fall down and where we all looked like the letters we were meant to look like - you can see it at the top of this post!<br />
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Our inventors needed their camera back yesterday, so we posted it to them through the squeeshoot. We're not feeling too sad about this as Trig thought the camera was so amazing that he's out in the shiny silver thing on the marsh making us one to keep! He says it could take a few months, but we think it will be worth waiting for.<br />
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KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-80800120697645743632013-03-26T05:58:00.002-07:002013-03-26T07:51:41.491-07:00Competition winner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm so excited to announce a winner to our competition! Yesterday we sorted through the entries and realised that we had a very difficult decision to make: they were all fantastic and the houses that had been designed for us were amazing! We're now feeling like there are some improvements we could make to our current homes!<br />
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But as there is currently only ONE toy version of me in the whole world, so sadly there can only be <b>one </b>winner. After a lots of discussion, we eventually all agreed that Anna, who is 7 years old, should be our winner of this competition. Anna had designed a house especially for Ruby to live in and we loved the gemstones that she'd decorated the outside with - Ruby thought it was a dazzlingly good idea.<br />
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Yesterday, we asked our inventor if Ruby would be able to interview Anna. Our inventor wrote to Anna's mum with our questions and her mum kindly sent back Anna's answers (very speedily as Anna wasn't well that day, so was off school) - we hope you enjoy reading Anna's answers as much as we did! (Ruby's questions in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">red</span>, Anna's answers in <b>black</b> and The Squeebles' responses in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">pink</span>).<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi Anna. It's Ruby here. I love the house you've designed for me and I can't wait to start living in it! I'd like to ask you a few questions if that's okay, for our Squeebles blog...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i>I like the glitter best because it's sparkly and I like sparkly stuff. </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">[Me too!]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">Q2. If you were a Squeeble, which one would you be and why?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I'd be Whizz because I love to run fast and I like cherries. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">[I love cherries too, but not as much as strawberries. Mmmmm]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">Q3. I own an ice cream parlour. If you came to visit me there, what flavour of ice cream would you have (it can be a mixture of several flavours).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I'd like vanilla with a lollipop stuck in it and chocolate sauce. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">[That sounds amazing! I'll have to try that one next time I'm at the ice cream parlour.]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">Q4. The Squeebles are thinking of getting a pet! Do you have any pets? If so, what kind of pets do you have and what are the best things about them? If not, just tell us what your favourite kind of animal is and why.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I've got three tropical fish called Starshine, Blackpatch and Frogspawn. The best thing about them is that they always look beautiful and colourful and I like to read them stories. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">[That's great that you read to them - I bet they love a good "tail"... tee hee hee]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">Q5. As you know, I love going shopping for nice things and eating strawberries. What is the thing you enjoy doing most in the whole world?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I like eating cake, running and playing tennis.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"> </span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">[Not all at the same time though I hope!!!]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: red;">We're really sorry to hear that you aren't feeling well. We wish there was something we could do to help but Squeeble medicine doesn't really work on people. Get well soon!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Thank you I am feeling a bit better! </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">[That's wonderful - the Squeebles are all really happy to hear that!]</span></span><br />
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We're going to send Anna her prize Whizz toy and feel that he will be going to a very lovely home because Anna sounds like she is incredibly kind to her fish and as though they probably have a very interesting life. </div>
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We'd also like to show you just a few of our other favourite entries. We're so sorry we don't have room to show them all, but these two were close runner's up to Anna's house for Ruby.<br />
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Louis, aged 9, designed this wonderful house for Blob. We love that it has an antenna just like Blob's. In Louis' description of the house he told us that Blob gets up to his bedroom by an escalator and comes down via a slide. We all thought the idea of having an escalator to carry us up the stairs was brilliant (especially when we're exhausted after a hard day of digging up Plumatoepeas!) </div>
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Emily, who is 8, designed this amazing house for Whizz. We think it's wonderful that it has a Squeeberang for a door knocker!</div>
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<br />KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-90834228902770475182013-03-13T03:40:00.002-07:002013-03-13T03:41:57.012-07:00A questionnaire about Nell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I have some photos to share with you, which our inventors sent to us. Their Golden Retriever puppy has finally arrived! We have all spent a lot of time crowding around Trig's computer inside the silver thing on the marsh (if you don't remember how that got here, you can read this action-packed post). We think she looks very cute.<br />
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We sent our inventors a questionnaire to answer so that we could find out more.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Our puppy is called Nell. As soon as we knew we were getting a puppy we spent a lot of time discussing names. We loved the name Nina, but we realised when you shout it aloud several times, as you would do in the park, it suddenly sounded as though you were pretending to be a fire engine...when you're picking a dog's name it's a good idea to practice how it sounds when you have to say it over and over again in a public place. Choosing a name for a pet is very different from choosing a name for a person.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nell sleeps a lot (which is good as it means we can carry on with our work designing more Squeeble apps). She likes to sleep at our feet and when there are no feet around she finds a pair of shoes to sleep on. However, when she wakes up she needs lots of attention and she likes to play with all her toys, but she also enjoys learning. So far she has learnt to sit, offer up her paw and also to wait patiently for a treat. She's also starting to learn to fetch toys that we've thrown, but if we throw the toy too far she forgets that she is meant to be bringing the toy back. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">What is Nell's favourite thing?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">This week where we live with Nell, it snowed. Nell loved eating the snow and she gets very excited when she's allowed out to play in it. When it's not snowing, she loves to race around the garden with a branch in her mouth at full speed with her ears flapping in the wind behind her. She looks very sweet, but slightly bonkers when she's doing this. She also likes to eat stones, so we have to follow her around the garden trying to get the stones out of her mouth. Having a puppy is very hard work.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">She looks quite lively. We've read about puppies and it sounds like they can be a LOT of hard work. What is the most difficult thing about having a new puppy?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">You're right. A puppy is a LOT of work. You have to constantly watch a new puppy to make sure she's not eating sofas, chair legs or chewing her way through wires, as most puppies love to chew on things as it makes their new teeth feel better. We also have to teach her that it's not okay to nip people, because young puppies think it's fun when their own brothers or sisters bite them, so now we have to teach her that humans are different and that we really DO mind. Nell will end up being a big dog, so we also have to teach her while she's still small that it's not okay to jump up at people. And then you also have to teach her to go to the loo in the right place!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">What does Nell like to eat? And do you think she would eat a Squeeble if she came across one?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Nell likes to eat a bowl of puppy food four times a day. She also loves to eat the treats she's given as a reward for when she's done something good. She loves banana, apple, carrot and cheese. Her favourite thing is ice-cubes made from frozen yoghurt and peanut butter. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I don't think she would eat a Squeeble. She hasn't attempted to eat our two cats, so I'm guessing that if she saw us talking to you and smiling at you, she'd understand that we liked you and would know that it would not be okay to eat you. But don't worry, you're either safely inside my laptop or on Squeeble Island - Nell can't get to either of those places. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">We hadn't realised you might want a pet! That's a great idea. Yes, maybe one day you'll be able to have a pet of your own. We could even put one into one of the apps. Why don't you all discuss what type of pet you might like and when we have some spare time we could work on designing one for you. </span><br />
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I hope you enjoyed reading the answers to our questionnaire as much as we did - we're hugely relieved that Nell would be unlikely to eat us. We're off to discuss what kind of pet we might like now.<br />
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Whizz :)KeyStageFunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976650295938109417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944049798643327761.post-26715545757416796242013-03-08T02:44:00.001-08:002013-03-08T03:12:03.853-08:00Learn Your 9 Times Tables<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello Friends,<br />
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Today I'm going to teach you a trick for learning most of your 9x tables really speedily! No mental maths is involved, it's all about counting your fingers (and thumbs, but just think of them as fingers for this). You'll need to know your left from your right to be able to do use this method. If you're not sure on this, you can look back at my <a href="http://meetthesqueebles.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/how-to-tell-your-left-from-your-right.html" target="_blank">last post</a> where I've given you an easy trick for remembering that too.<br />
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Put up your hands in front of you with your thumbs next to one another. Imagine that each finger has a number from 1 to 10. 1 is the little finger on your left hand and 10 is the little finger on your right hand.<br />
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Now let's start with a simple multiplication: 2 x 9.<br />
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Whatever number you are multiplying 9 by, you'll need to put that finger down, so put up your fingers and then put down your second finger on your left hand (finger number 2).<br />
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You can see that there is one finger to the left of that one and 8 fingers to the right of it. You get the answer by simply placing those numbers next to each other, so 2 x 9 = 18!<br />
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Now let's try a different one. 4 x 9. You'll need to put the fourth finger on your left hand down. Now you have three fingers to the left of this one and six fingers to the right. If you put 3 and 6 next to one another that gives you 36. So 4 x 9 = 36.<br />
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Let's try multiplying 9 by an even bigger number. Let's go for 7 x 9. Put your fingers up in front of you and put down your seventh finger (this time it will be on your right hand). You can see that you have six fingers to the left of this one and three to the right of it, so the answer is 63.<br />
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Now try multiplying 9 by some of the numbers we haven't done yet. I'll write the answers down below so that you can check that you're doing it correctly.<br />
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1 x 9 = 9</div>
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2 x 9 = 18</div>
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3 x 9 = 27</div>
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4 x 9 = 36</div>
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5 x 9 = 45</div>
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6 x 9 = 54</div>
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7 x 9 = 63</div>
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8 x 9 = 72</div>
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9 x 9 = 81 </div>
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Unfortunately, you'll need to remember the answers for the rest of the 9 x table as you will run out of fingers if you go beyond 9 x 9, but this trick should give you a good headstart on your 9 x table. And just in case you want to surprise your parents with how quickly you've learnt them, I'll include the answers to the rest of the 9 x table in case you want to memorise them.<br />
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10 x 9 = 90</div>
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11 x 9 = 99</div>
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12 x 9 = 108<br />
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