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tirsdag den 17. maj 2022

Words for Wednesday - May 11

  Once again I publish half a bit Tuesday evening to clear the shelves for tomorrow's Words.

  I used exactly one word from last Wednesday's batch: White.

  For May 11 we were given these words: white, painter, courtesy, recommendation, neighbour, disagree, traffic, ambition, conference, and healthy. And this charming lighthouse.




"Now shouldn't we try and solve the puzzle?" Anna asked, juggling her piece and jumping from foot to foot. "I have some of a white flower, some petals, that is.
They all placed their pieces at the table. Anna's flower petal fit in with Terje's piece, Knud's red jewel fit with Kirstin's piece featuring a bit of a multicoloured thing, maybe a ainbow. Susan and Hilde's ears clearly came from the same animal, a koala most probably, but some pieces were missing, and they were not equally thick.

"A puzzle with only eleven pieces is not much," Josta said. he looked at his piece, more of the koala, he was sure,  and then to the items at the table. "There's one more of them notes. Susan you read it!"
Susan gingerly unfolded the note, ready to throw it far away at the first sign of spontaneous combustion. She read aloud:

"Eleven pieces to a puzzle.
Exercise your magic muscle.
To make the pieces fit,
Try thinking, just a bit!"

Susan threw the paper across the room, but it did not burn, instead it turned into a huge drop of water, drenching Terje, who tried to catch it.
"Ugh!" he exclaimed.
"Fire, water," Rosa said what's next?
"Earth or air," Knud said.
"Earth is here," Hilde said reaching for the stone.  
"It's too light for it's size," she said amazed.
"Shake it? Is it hollow?" Knud suggested. Hilde shook the tone, and everybody heard the muted, rattling sound.
"Hollow indeed," Hilde said.
"We need to find out more about those carved figurines too," Susan said, still intrigued over the composite animal.
"And do something about the missing pieces. And why are the pieces we do have, not the same thickness? That's a bit stupid."
"Maybe there's more inside," Kirstin said. She turned her piece, featuring blue water and yellow sand over and over again, her black curls keeping time to the turning of the piece. "No, there's more underneath. It's a stack of pieces, actually!" She now held two pieces in each of her hands.
Soon all the apprentices were peeling off puzzle pieces and they ended up with 72 wafer thin pieces.
"I love jigsaw puzzles! Let me have a go!" Surprisingly this was Terje, the big, slow Swede. He gathered in all the pieces, carefully and started sorting them, and almost by themselves the pieces began attaching to one another.
"Do, what you're best at,"  Knud said. "It seems Terje is best at puzzles.What do the rest of us do?"

"I'm off for the library," Susan said. "The koala is an Australian animal, Kalle told us. And I'll try and see if a book can help me find out about that puzzled-together animal as well."
"Good thinking," Hilde said.  "Off you go!"
... to be continued, hopefully tomorrow, and hopefully with more of the Words.

9 kommentarer:

  1. Ooooh. Loving this use of the words, and of people's very different skills. I fear that (so far at least) I would be an observer rather than a participant.

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    1. PS: Today's prompts are up - at wisewebwoman's blog.

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    2. Thank you. I'm sure you would be doing something if you had magic. We all thought that Terje was not good for anything, well we were mistaken.
      And I know the Words are up, thah's what prompted (kicked) me to publish this, as they are for Wednesday, I gotta get those here out first ;)

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  2. They are thinking it through and making progress. It's good when teachers help youngsters learn how to think instead of just telling them what to think.

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    1. Yes that's good. But knowledge and thinking go together, it's like two sides of a coin, you can' really have thinking without knowledge, nor knowledge without thinking.
      Once the knowledge part was too heavily emphasized, now we've come too far in the other direction when Maths teachers in first grade ask the pupils what they want to learn - true life example.
      I'm trying to show what my ideal schooling would look like - this episode comes after weeks of reading, "do after me's" and listening to Jon, Birgitta and Torben talking about transformation.

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  3. That's sneaky, making the jigsaw pieces stacked, I'm glad that got worked out.

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  4. It seems the puzzles fit a bit too easily but I guess the real puzzle is supposed to be what the puzzle image represent? I'm just guessing.

    Have a lovely day.

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    1. This chapter needs a total re-write. It's filled with loose ends and errors - loads of them ;) But I'll keep on anyway. Hoping to find a solution to it all eventually.

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