Owner Of Mollie’s Candy Stores Is Just Six Years Old

Mollie’s is a chain of candy stores in England.

They sell British and American candy, as well as ice cream.

There are three stores in the chain, located in the British towns of Welshpool, Newtown and Shrewsbury.

But perhaps the most interesting thing about Mollie’s candy stores is the owner—Mollie Price. You see, she’s six years old.

Price started the business because she liked those “pick and mix” stores, as her mother told Britain’s Mail Online news website. By “pick and mix” she means bulk food stores, where items are in bins and you can scoop as much as you need, put them in a bag and buy them by the pound.

That’s how most of the candy in Mollie’s stores is sold.

Her mother said Price noticed there was an opportunity for a bulk candy store, andMollie’s was born.

Price chooses the candy for her stores herself. And she works in the stores on Saturdays. On Sunday mornings she gets up early to visit a candy wholesaler she buys her bulk candy from. She and her friends test much of the candy before deciding which candy to offer in her stores.

Price and her friends also come up with innovative ideas to market the store’s products. For instance, they recently installed temperature gauges that show how hot it is outside. When it gets cooler, customers can buy Mollie’s ice cream a bit cheaper; when it’s hot outside, the ice cream costs more. It’s an innovative idea that’s not only fun and original, but it makes sense.

It was Price’s idea to open the stores in the first place. Her mother said Price saw the need for the kind of store she wanted to open. And she was right, because the youngster recently opened her third store and has plans to expand her chain even further.

The UK has recognized Mollie as one of the youngest entrepreneurs in Britain.

This article was originally published on TKN on July 13, 2012.

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS

Group Discussion Task:Mollie noticed that there was a need for a bulk candy store in her community so she and her mom created one. As the article explains, it has been a huge success.

Have you noticed a need/desire in your community for a certain type of store, a product or a service? What are some creative ways that you could meet this demand? What would you need in order to realize your idea?

Reading Task:Mollie and her friends have come up with some creative ideas to bring business into the store. One example in the article is that Mollie uses the temperature outside to determine the price of ice cream. Can you think of any other creative ways for Mollie to get more people to buy candy in her store?

Writing Task:Express personal thoughts and feelings about what has been read.  Record your thoughts and feelings in your literacy book.

Grammar Feature: Indirect QuotationQuotation marks (“) are used when you write exactly what someone said or wrote. Indirect quotations don’t need quotation marks because they only explain what someone said. Can you find places in the article that are indirect quotations?

First Man on the Moon Dies

First man on the moon dies

Written by  William World 26 August 2012 Published in WORLD

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died. He was 82.

Armstrong died following complications resulting from an operation he had on his heart.
Armstrong captained the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century's scientific expeditions.
His first words after setting foot on the surface are etched in history books and in the memories of those who heard them in a live broadcast.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong said.
Armstrong and the other astromnaut, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, spent nearly three hours walking on the moon's surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.

Take Pictures without a Camera

Cameras have gotten smaller and smaller over the years, but the Ubi-Camera might be one of the smallest yet.

Put your pointer fingers and thumbs together so they form a rectangle.
Now go “click!”
You just took a picture.
Can you imagine it? That’s what it will be like to take a picture with the Ubi-Camera, now being developed by a group of researchers at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, a university in Japan.
The Ubi-Camera is a tiny rectangular box that fits over your thumb.
For the viewfinder (the thing you would normally look through on a camera to see what you want to take a picture of) you simply form a rectangle with your fingers and thumbs.
To take a picture, you press down on the box. Click! You’ve taken a photo—without a “camera.”
Whatever is in the rectangle you formed with your fingers will be what’s in your photo.
If you want to zoom in, you move your hands away from your face. To zoom out, you move your hands closer to your face.
In order to zoom in and out, the Ubi-Camera uses a tiny light that shines on your face. That light measures the distance from the Ubi-Camera to your face and tells the Ubi-Camera to zoom in or out.
The Ubi-Camera is still being developed. Currently, it needs a wire to hook it up to a computer to zoom in or out and to take the pictures. By the time the scientists are finished with it, however, it won’t have a wire and it won’t need to be hooked up to a computer.
Here is a video of the Ubi-Camera prototype in action. Note, this video (2:23) is on YouTube and should be viewed with an adult, since YouTube is not kid-friendly (this video is, however). The video includes some Japanese with English subtitles.


Note: This article was originally published on June 3, 2012.

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS

With your group discuss...

Discussion Prompt:
Do you think the Ubi-Camera will be a successful camera? Is it the type of device you and your friends would want? Why do you think so?

Reading Prompt: Extending Understanding
When might an Ubi-Camera be more useful than a traditional camera? In which jobs would an Ubi-Camera be helpful?

Complete in your Literacy Book
Grammar Feature: Contractions (That’s That)
A contraction is a word that is made by joining two words together. When making contractions, an Apostrophe is used to show where a letter or letters have been removed. For example, the contraction “that’s” is the joining of two words, “that” and “is.” An apostrophe is used to replace the letter “i.”

“That’s what it will be like to take a picture with the Ubi-Camera, now being developed by a group of researchers at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, a university in Japan.”

Fill in the blanks below by using contractions.
1. It ______________ her bag.
2. If they __________________ go to gym, where are they?
3. ____________________ the best dancers at they party!
4. If ____________ her best joke, ____________ got one that will have you in stitches.
5. The teachers _____________ say why the pool is closed.

New Zealand's Super Moon

A "super-moon" was on offer for New Zealand on Sunday evening...

This is a once a year event and this year the moon is as much as 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than other full moons of 2012 due to its closeness to earth.

The scientific term for the phenomenon is "perigee moon". The moon follows an elliptical path around Earth with one side, or perigee, about 31,000 miles closer than the other, or apogee.

On Sunday evening the moon was visible over New Zealand since 5.23pm.
The last perigee moon was on March 19, 2011, when it was about 250 miles closer than tonight's.

A perigee full moon can bring tides that are higher than normal but only by an inch or so (a few centimetres). The effect can be amplified by local geography, but only by about six inches.

Check out this link to another TVNZ clip

http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/super-moon-lights-up-nz-sky-video-4866070


Leave a comment to this post and tell us what you have learnt from the article and the news video.

Daylight Saving Time Explanation

With your group answer the following questions...

The big Idea

Listen to the YouTube clip that explains Daylight Saving take note of the key words or phrases 

that will help you answer the following questions.

Who? 

What?

Where? 

When? 

Why?

How? 

Now as a group summarise the explanantion.

Information must be written into the group recorders 

Literacy Book

Man or Muppet Sound track from the movie...

New Zealands very own Bret McKenzie won an Oscar Award for Best Orginal Song  for The Muppets at the 84th Accademy awards in Los Angeles.

We love Maries Glog of the Muppets also which you can view at...

Marie's Muppet Glog (Our Quad Blogging Buddy School in Canada)

With your group answer the following questions...

The big Idea

Read the newspaper article in the classroom and record the key words or phrases 

that answer the following questions.

Who? 

What?

Where? 

When? 

Why?

How? 

Now as a group summarise the article in 25 words.

Information must be written into the group recorders 

Literacy Book

Extension Activity - Check Out the following link to gather information ...

Newpaper and Sky TV headlines 

Usually February is a very short month, with only 28 days. But every four years, in what's known as a leap year, it has an extra one - giving it 29. Why is there one extra day? According to the calendar, there are 365 days in a year. But it actually takes the Earth almost 365 days and six hours to revolve all the way around the Sun. So every four years, about an extra 24 hours have added up, so one extra day is added to the year to keep the calendar in tune with the Sun. What happens if you are born on 29 February ? A person who was born on 29 February is sometimes called a leapling. And although their birthday only actually happens once every four years, they don't go without presents! In normal years leaplings celebrate their birthday on 28 February or 1 March instead. When does a leap year happen? A year that can by divided evenly by four is usually a leap year. February 29 is the 60th day in a leap year of the Gregorian calendar, which is the most widely used calendar in the world today and the one used in the NZ. What strange things happen during a leap year? Usually, it's seen as the man's job to ask a woman to marry him. During a leap year, some people say a woman can propose to the man instead. And others say this is only allowed on 29 February - and not on any other day of the leap year.

Check Out this Youtube clip...

With your group answer the following questions...

The big Idea

Read the article and record the key words or phrases that answer the following questions.

Who? 

What?

Where? 

When? 

Why?

How? 

Now as a group summarise the article in 25 words.

Information must be written into the group recorders 

Literacy Book