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?