Forever a Monster

Once upon a time, there was a boy who was so badly behaved that the Chief Fairy of the land came by to punish him. The Fairy turned the boy into a monster, in a spell which meant the boy could only escape from being a monster if he managed to seriously frighten someone. At first the boy thought this would be easy, but he soon found that the children in his area were very difficult to scare.

A long time passed, and he got more and more fed up; so he decided to look for some easy prey: a boy who was well known as a sucker. To ensure success, he studied this boy for some time, following him wherever he went, and in passing, seeing all the good works he did. His target gave to charity, played with the children in hospital, helped old people...

Finally, he had fully prepared the best fright ever. A fright that would free him from monsterhood forever, and leave that good, unsuspecting boy, scared stiff. However, when he went to frighten the boy, there came into his mind the images of all the people the boy had helped. The monster decided to leave the boy alone, because he realised that all his good work was without price. And if he did the boy any damage, he would be responsible for him not being able to help more people.
At that exact moment the Chief Fairy appeared, and rewarded the monster's good attitude by turning him back into a boy.

And that boy, who had been so badly behaved, became very kind, and a good friend of the boy he had been about to frighten to death.

The greedy cloud

Once upon a time lived on a cloud that was grown up over a very beautiful country. One day, she saw another much bigger cloud and she felt so much envy, than the cloud decided that in order to get bigger and grow more, her water would never abandon her, and will never start raining again.

Indeed, the cloud grew up, while his country was getting dried. First, rivers dried up, then people, animals, plants, and finally, the whole country became a desert. The cloud did not care much, but she also did not realize that by being over a desert there was no place where she could obtain new water to keep growing. So slowly, the cloud began to lose size, and was unable to do anything to stop it .

The cloud then realized her mistake, and that her greed and selfishness were the cause of her vanishing; but just before evaporating, when she was just a sigh of cotton, there started blowing a gentle breeze. The cloud was so small and weighed so little that the wind took her far away, to a faraway beautiful country, where once again she recovered her original size.

Having learned this lesson, our cloud remained small and modest, but she became so generous when raining, that her new country became even greener, giving away to all people there the most beautiful rainbow in the world.

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1. What is the plural of "horse?"
2. What is the plural of "bus?"
3. What is the plural of "shelf?"
4. What is the plural of "ferry?"
5. What is the plural of "mouse?"
6. What is the plural of "race?"
7. What is the plural of "baby?"
8. What is the plural of "statue?"
9. What is the plural of "house?"
10. What is the plural of "sheep"

Shape & Symmetry quiz

choose the correct answers from the lists.

1. Which 2D shape has 9 sides?                                   Nonagon                 Hexagon                 Pentagon                 Dodecahedreon
2. How many faces has a cube?                                   2                 6                 5                 4
3. How many lines of symmetry has a square?                                   12                 4                 6                 8
4. How many faces has a dodecahedron?                                   12                 14                 5                 10
5. How many verticies has a square based pyramid?                                   7                 8                 5                 4
6. How many sides has a semi-circle?                                   0                 3                 1                 2
7. How many faces has a sphere?                                   2                 1                 0                 3
8. This 2D shape has 10 sides, what is it?                                   Hexagon                 Decagon                 Pentagon                 Diamond
9. How many faces has a pentagonal prism?                                   15                 7                 8                 12
10. How many edges does a square prism have?                                   12                 8                 4                 6

Fun Quizzes ^_^

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ONCE I CAUGHT A FISH ALIVE

One, two, three, four, five,

Once I caught a fish alive,

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

Then I let go again.

Why did you let it go?

Because it bit my finger so.

                                     Which finger did it bite?

                                   This little finger on the right.