Here are some fun ideas that relate to Our Story if you feel like giving any of them a whirl..

In your takehome pack you'll find a WORD SEARCH you can do. LOTS of vocabulary words from the story in there. See if you can find them all... email a pic of your finished sheet!!

"I can think of something else you could do with these. How many, oh, five letter words, say, could you make using at least three of these twelve letters in each word? Ever done that?...Mrs. Sharpe was saying, "Let's see, the letters are F, I, L, N, P, T, U, V, W or M, X, Y AND Z."" (p. 184) Make as many as you can and email your list to us (cbcsksd@gmail.com) and we'll see who comes up with the most!!

This is Hilarious!!?! Do you want to try this at home?? So fun.. If you dare, too, you can email your pics to us. And if you double dare... we'll post them here

What is an art enthusiast to do, now galleries and museums around the world have closed their doors? The Getty museum, based in Los Angeles, has a suggestion: recreate famous works of art using household items.

The institution issued the challenge to its Twitter followers on Thursday last week: choose your favourite artwork, recreate it using three items lying around your house and share it with the world on social media.

While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in January 2011, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror using my cellphone. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight. I made several forays to the bathroom from my aisle seat, and by the time we landed I had a large group of new photographs entitled Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style. I was wearing a thin black scarf that I sometimes hung up on the wall behind me to create the deep black ground that is typical of these portraits. There is no special illumination in use other than the lavatory's own lights and all the images are shot hand-held with the camera phone. At the Dunedin Public Art gallery, the photos were framed in faux-historical frames and hung on a deep red wall reminiscent of the painting galleries in museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It takes the average person about 60 seconds to find the things in the hidden pics below. See how you do..

Can you find the FROG in these pictures??

How about the "T" in the midst of these "L's"??

Can you find the "red herring" amongst the Octopi?? (heh heh) Do we know what a red herring is?? Usually it is something, in a mystery, especially a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting.

There is a pair of eyes hiding somewhere amongst the letters in this neighborhood...

Compose a mystery containing all of the necessary ingredients: a setting, a problem to solve, suspects, a detective, and a sequence of events. In your takehome pack there are templetes to help you map out your own story.