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.

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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.

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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
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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