Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Clues Blog
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Each week I will post a new puzzle for you to solve. The puzzles cover eight main areas - landmarks and famous sites, U.S. geography, world geography, famous people, literature, things, mathematics, and logic. . Each puzzle will have five or six clues that I will post during the course of the week.  You must put together the information in these clues to be able to solve the puzzle and name the person, place, or thing to which the puzzle refers.  Some puzzles may be easy to solve, while others may be quite difficult.  The first student or team with the correct answer becomes our weekly winner! The hitch is that if you guess incorrectly, maybe because you didn't wait for enough solid clues, you can not resubmit another answer. This should cut down on wild guessing 5th graders!  "First" will be judged by the blog time/date stamp on each correct response. Happy Solving!

Weekly Clues Blog Winner List:
Week 1: David
Week 2: David
Week 3: Carsen
Week 4: David
Week 5: David
Week 6: David
Week 7: David
Week 8: ?????


*Remember, bring your prior knowledge to play, use inferencing, and deductive reasoning as the clues progress each day!  The same skills great readers use will help you here!



 
Posted by Mrs. O on Monday, Oct 17th, 2011.
Clue 1: You are looking for a two-digit number that is greater than 30.
Clue 2: The number is divisible by 11.
Clue 3: Half the number is a two-digit number with the same numerals for both its first and second digit.
Clue 4:
Posted by Mrs. Olson on Friday, Sep 23rd, 2011.
Clue 1: You are looking for a two digit number.
Clue 2: The number is greater than 50.
Clue 3: All of the factors of this number are prime.
Clue 4: It is an odd number.
Clue 5: This number is divisible by 5.
Final Clue: Three is also a divisor.
Posted by Mrs. Olson on Monday, Sep 19th, 2011.
Clue 1: You are looking for a two-digit number.
Clue 2: The number is divisible by 5.
Clue 3: The number is greater than 40 and less than 80.
Clue 4: The sum of its digits is odd.
Clue 5: Twice the number is a three-digit number.
Posted by Mrs. Olson on Friday, Sep 9th, 2011.
Clue 1: You are looking for a two digit number.
Clue 2: It is odd.
Clue 3: It's first digit is the square of the second digit.
Clue 4: It is greater than 20.
Final Clue: The sum of it's digits is 2 digit number.
Posted by Mrs. O on Friday, Sep 2nd, 2011.
Clue 1: This story was written for adults, but young readers have enjoyed it for over 200 years.
Clue 2: If you travel with this ship's doctor you're in for a fantastic adventure.
Clue 3: You can follow these adventures in Jonathan Swift's journal.
Clue 4: On one of your four voyages, you'll encounter giants.
Clue 5: When you get to Lilliput, you'll feel like a giant because the people are only six inches tall.
Posted by Mrs. Olson on Friday, Aug 26th, 2011.
Clue 1: This 20th century writer is a favorite with young readers.
Clue 2: Her characters exhibit emotions and get involved in the kinds of humorous adventures that are believable to school-age children.
Clue 3: She gave a tiny creature named Ralph a voice and a motorcycle.
Clue 4: If you think your sister is a pest, you should meet Ramona.
Posted by Mrs. Olson on Monday, Aug 22nd, 2011.
Clue 1: This person was a famous English writer who wrote dramas, novels, and journals.
Clue 2: His collection of verses tells about times when we were young.
Clue 3: His most famous stories were those he created for his young son, Christopher.
Clue 4: His most famous character was a loveable bear.
Final Clue: The bear's best friends were Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Kanga and Roo.
Posted by Mrs. Olson on Monday, Aug 15th, 2011.
Clue 1: This 20th century American writer was successful as both a writer for adults and children.
Clue 2: Like several other authors, he used his initials instead of his first name.
Clue 3: He created children's stories whose characters were animals with human emotions and values.
Clue 4: Only a person with a great imagination would write a story about a family whose son is a mouse.
Final Clue: Children of all ages can relate to Charlotte and Wilbur's friendship.
Posted by Mrs. Olson on Tuesday, Jul 19th, 2011.
I'll give you all 4 clues up front for this first week. Your answer must be in the form of a complete sentence with no spelling or punctuation errors. Any sources used to find your answer must be cited. You can copy and paste in the website URL's after your answer.

Clue #1: This 20th century author was a master at creating fantasy adventures.
Clue #2: He led a group of children through the back of a wardrobe and into a land where a battle between good and evil was being waged.
Clue #3: If you want to meet the good lion Aslan you will have to travel to Narnia.
Clue #4: Whether you're looking for Prince Caspian or the Magician's Nephew, you'll find them in this author's works.

*8/31/11- I see that some of you have started to submit answers to me for approval. I do see them, but I am holding them all to post on New Year's Eve. I'll usually hold all posts to the Clues Blog so everyone has a chance to look up the information on their own. Keep those submissions coming!