Agenda - Thursday

• Kelsey True Ryan - Books due to Mrs. Braun ASAP
• Bridge to Teribithia Chapter 9 must be read by tomorrow
• 
  

Agenda - Tuesday

Agenda - Tuesday

• Bridge Chapter 4 Needs to be read by tomorrow
• Science - First 4 pages due tomorrow
• We Learn Family Activity tomorrow
• Ask me about: Plastic Surgery
• 
  

Agenda - Thursday

Agenda - Thursday

• Current events will be presented tomorrow
• Band tomorrow
• Ask me about: Comp Tour
• Science presentations start tomorrow

Agenda - Tuesday

• Track meet tomorrow - Listen to GX94 tomorrow morning to ensure it is still going on (Alternate date is Friday)
• Thursday - bring a change of clothes for comp tour
• Current event - Thursday
• Ask me about: Pre-K presentation
• Word of the day : paternal

Agenda - Monday

Agendas - Monday

• MCS tour June 5th - Bring a change of clothes
• Track and Field meet Wednesday
• Library tomorrow
• Pre-K presentations Thursday
• WOTD - Verbatim
• Ask me about: What did I do today?

Agenda - Wednesday

Agenda - Wednesday

• Movie lunch day tomorrow (Bring $1 to watch a movie in the gym over lunch)
• Current event due tomorrow
• Art museum tomorrow night (Come and go 6:30-8:30)
• Band tomorrow
• WOTD: ______________________
• Ask me about: Tony Horton

Orange Juice

Agenda - Monday

Green day tomorrow
Math Page 80 #1a, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 a-d, 8 DUE tomorrow
Spelling sentences due tomorrow
Word of the day: Literal
Ask me about: Our airplanes (Science) and Ryan's weird hair.

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• No School Monday/Tuesday! Lucky ducks
• Social Current Event Thursday
• Book Reports are now overdue
• Band Wednesday
• Book orders are due Wednesday
• Ask me about: How mean is Jillian Michaels?
• ASM Wednesday

Agenda - Thursday

Agenda - Thursday

• P.E. tomorrow
• WOTD: defenestration 
• Book reports are DUE tomorrow
• Word of the day quiz tomorrow
• Ask me about: ...........   

Agenda - Tuesday

Agendas: 

• Library tomorrow
• ASM tomorrow
• WOTD: Articulate
• Book Report due Friday
• Ask me about: Dance Presentation

Agenda - Monday

Monday, Monday; Can't trust that day!

• Word of the day: incognito
• Band tomorrow
• After School Math tomorrow
• Miss Debbie's dance presentation tomorrow!
• Ask me about: The end of Underground to Canada

Agendas: 

• Pita lunch
• Word of the day quiz tomorrow (Wax, Wane, Acute, Voracious)
• Social Presentation
• Band tomorrow
• WOTD: Wane
• Ask me about: Shawn T.

Agenda - Wednesday

Agenda:

• RAD tomorrow
• Early D tomorrow
• Phys. Ed. tomorrow
• Social News article presentations tomorrow
• Ask me about: My survey
• WOTD: Wax

Agenda - Tuesday

Agendas: 

• Word of the day: acute
• Band tomorrow
• Ask me what the ratio is between male staff to female staff at Davison (Or my french rewrite)

Agendas: 

• ASM tomorrow 3:30-4:45
• WOTD: voracious
• French re-write tomorrow
• Library tomorrow - Bring books back
• Ask me about: What did I learn today?  (Hint: Talk about random facts)

Friday

Agenda: 

• French rewrite Tuesday
• Band on Monday
• RAD starts next week
• Tell them From me letter goes home today
• Check e-mail
• Ask me about: Balloons!

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following : 

• Pita lunch forms due Tomorrow
• Band tomorrow
• Social - News summary tomorrow
• Word of the day: vivacious 
• Social cover page due tomorrow to Google Drive
• Twin day tomorrow
• Bake sale tomorrow at lunch
• Badminton - Tomorrow in 6
• Assembly tomorrow
• Ask me about: Safety

Random Fact

More than 99% of all species that ever lived are extinct. But, don't worry, extinctions accelerate the evolution of life on Earth.

Read more at http://www.omgfacts.com/Animals/More-than-99-of-all-species-that-ever-li/2378#G0J611IS6Ia6FBy0.99

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the folllowing:

• Math homework - Page 188 due tomorrow
• News summary due Thursday
• Cover Page due Thursday
• P.E. tomorrow
• Hot lunch forms - Thursday
• Ask me about: Percent
• Word of the day: pacific

Agenda - Wednesday

Agendas: 

• Technology form goes home today
• Jump Rope for Heart tomorrow - Space themed
• Social News due tomorrow
• No School Friday
• Ask me about : Eggs with Mrs. Dales
• Word of the day: fraternity

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Miss S. away Monday and Tuesdsay next week - Mrs. Bellamy will be in for me
• Egg decorating on Wednesday - Make sure you don't wear your Sunday best!
• Word of the day -
• Ask me about: Mrs. Niebergall

Agenda - Thursday (Early D)

Jump Rope Envelopes due tomorrow
Bandminton next Wednesday
Mrs. Niebergall in for Miss S. tomorrow morning
P.E. and Band tomorrow
French quiz Monday
Ask me about: Current event? Tadyn's current event?
Word of the day : monotone

Agenda Message

• Space Posters are now overdue
• Social Current event tomorrow
• Word of the day: obdurate 
• Early D tomorrow
• Ask me about: Exemplar

Coming soon...

Below are some important dates coming up: 

• Solar System poster due tomorrow
• Current event summary Thursday
• Pink Day is tomorrow
• French Quiz April 14th
• Badminton Forms
• Ask me about: Crunchkins (Exemplar coming up soon)  

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Art of the Storyteller summary due Monday (25 marks) 
• Band Monday
• Word of the day: credible 
• Ask me about: Mr. Albers 

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Mr. Albers in for Miss S. tomorrow morning
• JRFH Pizza party deadline tomorrow
• Conferences continue tonight
• PINK sheet (Math due tomorrow)
• Showcase meet tomorrow
• Word of the day: trudge
• Ask me about: My news OR someone else's

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Golden ticket holders - Newsletter goes home today
• Current event/news tomorrow
• Popcorn $1
• Conferences tonight and tomorrow
• Pizza party JRFH extension to Friday
• Word of the day: intrepid
• Ask me about: When have I felt trepidation?

Agenda - Monday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Report Cards go home today
• Track meet tomorrow

1. Water Bottle
2. Indoor runners
3. Gym clothes
4. Lunch and/or $$

• Jump rope forms - Kade, Aaron and Ryan
• Badminton IS tomorrow
• Conferences start tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday
• Word of the day : Abolitionist
• Ask me about: Alexander Ross

Friday Agendas

Students, note the following in your agendas:

• Indoor Track meet is Tuesday
• Report Cards Monday
• Word of the day: malicious
• Ask me about: My conference with Miss S. orrrrr Band......
• Badminton Tourney 8:45 A.M.

Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Assembly tomorrow period 3
• Band tomorrow
• Jump Rope - Missing - Aaron, Ryan, Hunter, Cassie, Austin, True, Kade
• Word of the day: Tenacious
• Ask me about: News

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Spelling sentences MUST be sent to me by tomorrow
• Current events Social news articles due tomorrow
• Jump Rope forms
• Word of the day : Petrified
• Ask me about: News article

Agenda - Monday AND CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

We started our Student-Teacher conferences today.  Please note the day and time of your conference this week:

Tuesday - Steven 3:30, Makayla 4:00, Jasmine 4:30

Wednesday- True, Hunter Period 4, Kelsey 3:30

Thursday - Austin Period 2, Harley 3:30, Madison 4:00

Friday - Kade and Lizzie Period 2, Taylen Period 4, Sarah 3:30, Tadyn 4:00

BAND TRIP TOMORROW.  Meet at Davison at 7:45 - Bus leaves at 8:00

(Black pants, white t-shirt) 

Madison, Aaron, Austin, True - Get Mom's to call the school if you have permission or write me a note so I know that I can take you with us :)

Ask me about: Student/Teacher conference or How awesome does our band sound?

To Understand the Crimea Crisis, Watch the 1000-Year Transformation of Europe’s Borders

I came across this website and thought it would be a cool video to have as a random fact! 

Sleep random fact

Losing sleep can really add up. Find out how to get back to a restful life!

How much sleep did you get per night last week? Probably less than the 8 hours that experts recommend. If you think that just getting in one good, solid day of rest is enough the tip the scale back into balance, you may owe the sandman more time than you thought.

Sleep debt is the difference between the amount of sleep you ought to be getting per night, and the amount you actually get. The deficit doesn't just get wiped every week when you get a couple extra hours in bed on Sunday morning. It continues to grow every time we skimp even a few extra minutes a night.

The average American gets about 6.9 hours of sleep a night, on average. That means an hour of sleep a night is lost, resulting in two full weeks per year—and you'll start to feel it. Impaired vision, foggy brain, poor driving, and forgetfulness are all symptoms of sleep deprivation. Luckily, it can be reversed.

Go to bed when you're tired and wake up naturally, no alarm clock. Expect about ten hours of sleep a night, giving you a catatonic feeling, but your need for sleep will gradually decrease. Find the balance and you'll live an alarmless life from here on out.

(Source)

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/#yb3IlCbhdZpmreFG.99

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Math page 229 #1-10 due tomorrow
• Student/Teacher conference form goes home tonight
• Makayla, Madison, Kels - Note from Mrs. Braun
• BAND FORMS 
• Ask me about: Shot put

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Moo-s day tomorrow (black and white/cow)
• Band permission forms go home today. RETURN TOMORROW (YELLOW SHEET)
• Soccer forms go home today
• Ask me about: Perimeters

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Word of the day: Gregarious
• Ask me about: James Edgar's space presentation
• **DO YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HAVE FINISHED FOR THE SKI TRIP???
• Phys. Ed. tomorrow

Agenda - Monday

Welcome Back!! I hope you all had a fantastic weekend!

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Mr. Edgar is here tomorrow
• Team Spirit Tuesday tomorrow
• Band tomorrow
• Word of the day: Plethora
• Ask me about: The Book Fair

Crying Random Fact

When you cry, you are feeding your cornea with nutrients!

The human eye is one of the more complex organs of the human body and features some characteristics that are totally unique. The eye itself consists of a number of components and is responsible for light perception, vision and depth perception. It does all this by focusing light from the outside world through the cornea and onto the retina at the back of the eye.
For one's vision to be clear, the cornea needs to be totally transparent—so much so that it can not even contain any blood vessels. Nevertheless, he cornea is still made up of living cells and they need oxygen and nutrients to survive.
The cornea therefore takes its oxygen directly from the air. It does this by first having the oxygen absorbed by the tears, from where the cornea extract it. Nutrients are also supplied to the cornea via the tears through the process of diffusion.
So, next time somebody finds you crying, just tell them you are feeding your cornea.
(Source)

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/#blXwqIbCWc6UrFBL.99

NFL Random Fact

During a typical NFL game, the ball is only in play for 11 minutes!

During a typical NFL game, the ball is only in play for 11 minutes!

Yes. For every 3 hours you spend sitting on the couch watching an NFL game, you are only witnessing about bathroom break’s worth of actual football being played! What’s worse - 56% more of a broadcast’s time is devoted to things you have already seen - replays! On average, an hour of the program is spent on commercial breaks and up to 75 minutes (60% of the total time) shows players walking around between plays, huddling, or just standing at the line of scrimmage! Remarkably, shots of cheerleaders are only shown for an average three seconds, while coaches and referees receive around 7% of the total facetime of an NFL game!

I know what you’re saying - “that can’t be right, a single quarter of an NFL game is 15 minutes long!” But American football is not like most other sports. In football, the clock often keeps running regardless of the level of activity on the field. Look at it this way - a typical NFL play takes up about 4 seconds of clock time, but the players are allowed TEN TIMES this interval to just mill about behind the line of scrimmage! In fact, wasting time in this fashion and cheating viewers out of any potential action becomes a strategic advantage for the team that is ahead near the end of a game!
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Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Sports/During-a-typical-NFL-game-the-ball-is-on/35829#RsbAS3MKggEr4Xog.99

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Interview Forms due
• Science Report Rough Copy due Tuesday
• Book Reports are OVERDUE
• Special Guest Tuesday - Mr. Edgar
• Ask me about: My 100 m. run

Agenda - Thursday

You may put your agenda away AFTER it has been signed by Miss S...
Students, please note the following:

• Book Reports due tomorrow
• Band tomorrow
• ELA rewritten sentences due tomorrow
• P.E. tomorrow
• Taylen, Makayla, Ryan, Hunter, Austin - $2 tomorrow for track meet
• Ipods are allowed tomorrow
• Ask me about: Underground to Canada

Ski Trip Pre-requisites

What has to be done for the Ski Trip?

Science Report Rough Copy (Typed and Handed in)
Book Report
Reading Log
Visual Dictionary
Math Triangle Uploaded to Blog

Cockroaches

Cockroaches can life for up to 30 days after their head has been cut off.

Cockroaches can live for 30 days after their head has been cut off.

While it is more average for a cockroach to only live headless for 9 days or so, they can live for extremely long amounts of time. Cockroaches breathe through spiracles, which deliver air to each cell of the body through a set of tubes called tracheae. The brain does not control the breathing through the spiracles. So they don't need a head to breathe!

Also, the cockroach does not have blood pressure the way a mammal does, so cutting off the head does not lead to uncontrolled bleeding. What about food? They need much less food - single meal is enough to last them a whole month! This ability isn't all its cracked up to be, however - without a head, the cockroach would just sit around without doing much.

Cockroaches can life for up to 30 days after their head has been cut off.

Cockroaches can live for 30 days after their head has been cut off.

While it is more average for a cockroach to only live headless for 9 days or so, they can live for extremely long amounts of time. Cockroaches breathe through spiracles, which deliver air to each cell of the body through a set of tubes called tracheae. The brain does not control the breathing through the spiracles. So they don't need a head to breathe!

Also, the cockroach does not have blood pressure the way a mammal does, so cutting off the head does not lead to uncontrolled bleeding. What about food? They need much less food - single meal is enough to last them a whole month! This ability isn't all its cracked up to be, however - without a head, the cockroach would just sit around without doing much.
Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/History/Cockroaches-can-life-for-up-to-30-days-a/1418#dZ37WH0aGkPALuyY.99

Elephants are the only land mammals that cannot jump.

Elephants are the only land mammals that cannot jump.

Unlike all other mammals on earth, Elephants do not have kneecaps. Therefore, they are unable to bend their legs and acquire the needed propulsion to leave the ground. They are not, however; the only mammals that can't jump. After all, whales are mammals too.
Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Animals/Elephants-are-the-only-land-mammals-that/1417#boxXE1lB0EHDduwM.99

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Family Group activity tomorrow
• Word of the day: Stymie
• Track forms and $2 due tomorrow
• Family Dance tonight 6:30-8:30
• Ask me about: Tobacco Discussion

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Book Report due next week
• Track forms go home today - Due Thursday at the latest
• Band Monday
• WOTD quiz Monday
• Word of the day : Novel
• Ask me about: Typing tests

Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Newsletter (email) goes home today
• Phone Directory - Check e-mail
• P.E. tomorrow
• Ski Trip Forms DUE tomorrow!
• Ask me about: Track

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

•  Bring your ski trip forms back ASAP
• Word of the day - Desist
• Hat day tomorrow - Bring $1 to wear a hat in support of Telemiracle
• Ask me about: Book Report

Google Random Fact

Google unsuccessfully tried to sell itself in 1999 for $1 million

Remember Excite.com? Neither do most people. However, they were big cats in the search engine business right before the year 2000. Back then, Google was not the behemoth it is nowadays; in fact, it was still a project from Stanford Graduate students who thought it was taking too much time that would be better spent studying.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the creators of Google then went to Excite and tried to sell him the search engine for $1 million. Apparently this was a laughable proposal for then CEO, George Bell. He not only rejected their offer, he also threw an Excite venture capitalists out of his office when he tried to negotiate them down to only $750,000! This has gone down in history as one of the dumbest business decisions ever.

(Source)

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Animals/Google-unsuccessfully-tried-to-sell-itse/45044#5volBZBkViwDIr1P.99

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Bring your SKI TRIP forms back as soon as possible!
• Word of the day: Herpetology
• Ask me about: Ski Trip

Agenda - Monday

Welcome back!
I hope everyone had a great break and feel nice and refreshed ready to head into the last portion of TERM 2! (Already!)

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Ski trip information goes home today
• Principal for a day tickets on sale tomorrow ($1)
• Band tomorrow
• Hat day Thursday
• Badminton tomorrow after school (3:30-4:30)
• Lunch club tomorrow - Exemplar
• Word of the day: Serpentine
• Ask me about: What are your rights as a human being?

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Mini Volleyball Gr 6. vs Teachers tomorrow after lunch
• Early D tomorrow
• Ask me about: The Olympics

Agenda - Monday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Library tomorrow
• Miss S. away at a math conference tomorrow - Mrs. Klus in
• You'll have time to work on your science research tomorrow - Make sure you have everything you need
• New spelling words go home tonight
• Team Spirit Tuesday Tomorrow
• Candy Grams on Sale tomorrow
• Ask me about : The Beatles

Every year, about 6000 US patients have surgical tools left inside them!

Yay health care system. Thousands patients every year in America take a little souvenir home from their surgery. Occasionally, we hear about forceps, clamps, and hardware showing up in X-Rays but generally these are not the problem. Most of the time, it’s the gauzy, cotton sponges used for soaking up fluids that doctors leave in their patients.

The consequences of this are not pretty. Many patients suffer for months or years from pain, digestive problems, etc. Before anyone notices. But usually, by the time the doctor’s little mistake is picked up on, an infection has already formed. The complications from these infections can and often do last a lifetime. Some people lose parts of their intestines, others their lives.

Yet despite all this, thousands of hospitals and surgical centers have failed to adopt technologies that will eliminate the risk of leaving sponges in their patients.

(Source)

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Interesting/Every-Year-About-6000-US-Patients-Have-S/58161#PhbJbalhohwHCk82.99

Agenda - Friday!

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Today is the 100th day of School!
• Candygrams go on sale Monday
• Math homework?
• Band Monday
• Ask me about: Baton Presentation

There isn't any peanut butter in Reese's Pieces...

Manufactured by the Hershey Company, Reese’s Pieces peanut butter candy’s claim to fame is probably most notably it's appearance in the 1982 movie E.T. as the little ‘guy’s’ favorite candy. It followed Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and was designed to capitalize on it's forerunner’s success.

Originally the plan was to fill the candy with peanut butter, but the oil leaking into the shell made it soft instead of crunchy. The problem was outsourced to a team of scientists tasked to come up with a solution. They created a peanut-flavored penuche filling. Penuche is a fudge-like candy. It is made with brown sugar, butter and milk.

The next step was to figure out how thick the shell needed to be. The last step was to decide on the colors of the candy coating. It was designed to match the colors of the package and the goal distribution of candies in the packets is 50% orange, 25% brown and 25% yellow.

Although the candy was manufactured by the Hershey Company for the North American market, they are also available in Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Do not get too excited if you suffer from nut allergies - Reese’s Pieces still contain partially defatted peanuts!

The Pieces product line now includes York Peppermint Pattie Pieces, Almond Joy Pieces and Hershey’s Special Dark Pieces.

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Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/#lpHQfcS6doFVK4xQ.99

No Fear

A woman cannot feel fear because of a missing structure in her brain.

This woman is incapable of feeling afraid, but says she does feel other emotions. The reason for this strange condition is that the woman is missing a portion of her brain called the amygdala, which has been shown to help with emotional learning. The woman says that she has been threatened with a knife and held at gunpoint but did not feel the least bit afraid in either situation. Researchers tested her by having her handle dangerous snakes and a tarantula at a pet store and attend scary movies - she was never frightened!

The drawback to this "ability" is that she is also unable to process danger around her and subsequently avoid it - in reality, she is quite lucky to be alive! Researchers hope that by studying this woman they may find a way to treat patients with posttraumatic stress disorder.
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Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/lists/470/15-Weird-Phobias-You-Won-t-Believe-Are-Real/14#cORDiXFKWzzdLOhE.99

Phobophobia

Phobophobia is the fear of phobias, or the fear of fear. A person with Phobophobia is mortified of developing a phobia.
Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/lists/470/15-Weird-Phobias-You-Won-t-Believe-Are-Real/3#LA04UHkM6Yh3pMbw.99

Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• 100th day tomorrow - Wear 100 items for Family points!
• Baton presentation tomorrow
• Health Due tomorrow
• Ask me about: My Space Report
• 
  

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Band tomorrow
• 100th day Friday
• Baton Presentation Friday
• Volleyball Jamboree tonight
• Ask me about: Smoking 

Tuesday Agenda

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Spelling/WOTD quiz Thursday
• Health Values poster due tomorrow (Wednesday)
• Book Report Sheets go home today
• Bring Yoga Mats tomorrow (and P.E. clothes)
• Ask me about: Skating

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Skating Thursday
• RIDER PRIDE DAY TOMORROW - GREY CUP ASSEMBLY
• Mr. Albers in for Miss S. tomorrow
• WOTD - Jovial
• P.E. tomorrow
• Dress warm for A.M. walk tomorrow
• Ask me about: Friday
• 
  

Agenda - Monday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• New WOTD words go home today
• Mini Volleyball Jamboree forms go home today
• Science Rewrites - Tomorrow (Have your forms ready to hand in)
• Band tomorrow
• Health - Parent-Student Communicator overdue
• Ask me about : French quiz
• Word of the day : Pompous

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Bring Yoga mats Monday
• Ask me about : Guided reading/Guided Math

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Visual Dictionaries due tomorrow
• Ask me about : Miss S' oops
• 
  

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Band tomorrow
• Math post assessments start tomorrow (into Wednesday)
• Fundraiser letter (from the Comp) goes home today
• Ask me about: My science quiz

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Visual dictionaries due Jan. 23rd
• Band Monday
• Health Action Plan sheets DUE MONDAY (all but last 2 questions)
• French test - Jan 23rd

Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Health action plan sheets due tomorrow
• Ask me about : Mr. Robertson visiting tomorrow

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Hot lunch forms due Jan. 16th
• Math Page 72-73 due tomorrow
• Glorious Old Sun  Questions due Tomorrow
• Ask me about : There's no such thing as a bully

Agenda - Monday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Action Plan sheets go home today
• Team Spirit Tuesday tomorrow
• Book orders due tomorrow
• Glorious Old Sun questions due Wednesday (Jan 15th)
• Sub lunch (hot lunch forms)
• No such thing as a bully - presentation all afternoon tomorrow
• Ask me about: My Action Plan

My Pet Cricket

In China children actually keep crickets as pets!

But crickets are involved in much more like in a Chinese pastime called “Cricket Fighting” where male crickets fight just like in cockfighting, and bullfighting. 

Cricket fighting started more way back 1,000 years ago! Cricket fights are held at famous hotels throughout China, and although it is illegal to bet on the fights, the fights themselves are not illegal. 

In India, crickets are as praised as a cows are, and funerals are held when a cricket dies including a coffin made out of bamboo.

In 2010 more than $63 million dollars where spent in Chinese crickets, crickets even follow a diet including, ground shrimp, red beans, goat liver, and maggots. 

(Source)

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Animals/In-China-Children-Actually-Keep-Crickets/46294#0RM0AiwdBGu6AvZD.99

Random Fact - Sea World

Sea World is getting sued for slavery

PETA an organization that supports animal rights, is looking to lawsuit Sea World for keeping 5 killer whales in conditions that violate the slavery code!

The whales involved are:

1.Tilikum (Orlando, FL)Katina (Orlando, FL)

2.Corky (San Diego, CA)

3.Ulises (San Diego, CA) 

Tilikum, a six ton orca, who drowned a trainer in the middle of a performance and drowned her on February 2010.

The lawsuits ask that the orcas are released to a legal guardian who could find an ideal habitat. 

(Source)

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Animals/Sea-World-Is-Getting-Sued-For-Slavery/46296#WWSyaSQk9WzzMv22.99

Random Facts

No one has blue eyes!

As you look closely in the mirror trying to disprove this, physics explains how this is possible. Your eyes appear blue in the same way that the sky appears blue- scattered light. The iris, which is responsible for eye color, has three layers. Each layer has different color pigments such as yellow or brown which, when combined, make hazel and brown eyes.

But blue and grey eyes have a brown pigment in one small layer of the eye and as light bounces off of the iris, creates a blue color due to its short wavelengths!

(Source)

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Science/No-One-Has-Blue-Eyes/46320#bk73zoqGltkxXLJg.99

Agenda - Friday!

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Book orders due Jan 14th
• Math Homework #6-7
• Word of the Day quiz next Friday (Check out this week's words)
• Hot Lunch Forms?
• Ask me about : What I learned about the sun

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Book orders, SUB lunch notes, and Library notices go home today
• Recess and Lunchtime work on Social projects begins tomorrow - Make sure you have everything here that you need if you haven't handed in your country project yet
• Early D tomorrow
• January reading logs go home today (SORRY they're late!)
• Bring Yoga mats tomorrow (If you have)
• Math Page 72 #1 a, c, d, f, g, i , l, #2, #3, #4 a, c, e, g, and #5 due TOMORROW
• Ask me about: What is throat singing?