Lucerne City Primary Schools
Workshop for highly gifted kids

 

A) Children’s Riddles (Rätsel)

1.

What gets bigger the more you take from it?

2.

 What gets wet when drying?

3.

What's red and goes up and down?
4. What is black and white and red all over?
5. What goes up but never comes down?
6. What goes up when the rain comes down?
7. On the way, a miracle: water became bone.

solution on / solution off

 

 

 

 

 

Do you know other riddles? Please send them to waltisteffen@bluewin.ch

 

B) Do you speak “Short Cut”? Kennst du SMS-Kürzel?

What’s the meaning of these SMS-short cuts?

1. y not?
2. c u
3. u r gr8!
4. hi m8
5. happy bday 2u!

6.

 pls
7. lol
8. miss u
9. good n8
10. I need u
11. wanna b w/u

12.

 I luv u
13. I w8 4u
14. 2 L8!
15. tlk 2 me!
16. 2good2btrue
17. I h8 u

 

Solutions

1.

 

why not? – Warum nicht

 
2. see you
3. you are great!
4. Hi, mate – Hallo Freund(in)
5. Happy Birthday to you
6. please
7. laughing out loud – Lautes Auslachen
8. I miss you
9. Good night
10. I need you
11. I want to be with you
12. I love you
13. I wait for you
14. Too late! – Zu spät!
15. Talk to me!
16. Too good to be true. – Zu gut um wahr zu sein.
17.

 

I hate you.

Please send new, funny short cuts to waltisteffen@bluewin.ch – THX-(Thanks)

 

C) Are you a poet? – Can you write a Haiku?

A Haiku is a short Japanese poem with only 17 syllables. (Silben) Its form is very clear – without rhyme, but written in three lines:

Fist line: 5 syllables

Second line: 7 syllables

Third line : 5 syllables

Here are some examples :

 

1) She is a smart girl

But she does not bluff a lot

I think she is “flott”!

 

2) The leaves are falling

Autumn is all over me

Colours first – then grey…..

 

3. How lovely you are

When in spring the blossoms bloom

You are in my dreams.

 

Have you made your Haiku? Are you going to print it on this homepage? Then send it to waltisteffen@bluewin.ch. Thank you!

 

D) Finally here's a poem

 

When Did the World Begin?

by Robert Clairmont

 

When did the world begin and how?

I asked a lam, a goat, a cow.

What is it all about and why?

I asked a pig as he went by.

Where will the whole thing end and when?

I asked a duck, a goose, a hen.

And I copied all their answers too:

A quack, a baa, an oink, a moo.