Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Anti-bullying poster - due TOMORROW
• Spelling test tomorrow
• Spelling sheets due tomorrow
• Kade, Austin, Dale- Note for Miss Nashiem

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Book orders due Friday

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Choose 3 more random acts of kindness to try tonight
• Assembly tomorrow
• Mr. Peterson in for Miss S. tomorrow (as she goes to mark exemplars!)

Agenda - Wednesday

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a great looooong weekend!  Hopefully you are all rested up and ready to start the end of the school year!

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Exemplars today
• Basketball for Grade 5 tomorrow at lunch
• Hot Dog Lunch Friday
• $1 on Friday for Hat and Jersey Day
• Miss S. gone Thursday/Friday for surgery, Mrs. Klus in!

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

1. Exemplars start next week!
2. No school until Wednesday
3. No Miss S next week on Thursday or Friday (Mrs. Klus in)
4. Talent Show was today.  Good job 500 performers!!!!!!!!!! You were awesome!

Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Spelling test tomorrow
• Spelling sheets due tomorrow
• Hand in Return of the Pandas tomorrow
• Hot dog forms must be returned tomorrow
• Letters are getting sent tomorrow - If you aren't finished, they must be taken home.
• Talent Show tomorrow afternoon

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Despite the tiny brains, ostriches are big birds. They can weigh between 140 to 290 lbs and their eggs range from 3 to 5 lbs. Ostriches are closely related to dinosaurs, and have similar tissue to a T-Rex.

One thing that's not true about ostriches is that they don't bury their heads in the sand when they're scared. Male ostriches dig large holes with their beaks to make a nest for ostrich eggs. The male and female both tend to the nest regularly by flipping the eggs with their beaks, and they both take turns sitting on the nest.

Lot's of interesting ostrich facts can be found here.
Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Animals/An-Ostrichs-Eye-Is-Bigger-Than-Its-Brain/183#I1v6DOWJR1ByWoya.99

Agenda - Wednesday

Students please note the following in your agendas:

• Rabbit and Bear Paw presentation today
• Miss Debbie's Dance Presentation tomorrow
• Hot dog forms due May 17th
• Mrs. NR here tomorrow for word skills lesson!
• F & P testing starts tomorrow
• Talent Show Friday

Every wondered how much money is actually in a ton?

The expression, “a ton of money” is constantly thrown around, but did you ever wonder just how much money it would take in bills to actually weigh a ton? Because no one would actually withdrawal a million dollars and weigh it, math comes into the equation.
If a single dollar bill is weighed, it roughly comes out to a gram. Ten dollar bills equal 9.83 grams, so a million dollar bills would roughly weigh a thousand kilograms, or one metric ton. However, some more math is necessary.
A kilogram is around 2.2 pounds, so 1000 kilograms would result in just over 2200 pounds, which results in around a ton. So this means if you say I have a ton of money, you literally have a million dollars!

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Business/Ever-Wondered-How-Much-Money-Is-Actually/51384#3xWvrrSq5pBjgmfr.99

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Track meet forms were e-mailed yesterday
• Missing April reading logs: Lizzie, Dale, Makayla, Austin, Delaney, Colby, Bany, True, Anteneh.  A parent can write a note in your agenda for me if you have lost it and can estimate how many minutes you read last month.
• Bring hot dog forms back
• Walk to Cure Diabetes donations
• New spelling lists go home today
• Miss S. needs to initial your agenda before you put it away today. 

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Spelling test Monday (50 points due) since we didn't have time today
• Walk note goes home today
• Math worksheets due Monday
• Jeff's journey due Monday

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following:

• Math problem due tomorrow - Be ready to hand it in
• Early D on Thursday
• Basketball for Grade 5 starts tomorrow at lunch
• Refilming "beanstalk scene" tomorrow

Ear Wax

It's sticky. It's shiny. But what is earwax, anyway — and where does it come from?
Earwax is made in the outer ear canal. This is the area between the fleshy part of the ear on the outside of your head (the part you can see) and the middle ear. The skin in the outer ear canal has special glands that produce earwax. The fancy name for this waxy stuff is cerumen (say: suh-roo-mun).
After the wax is produced, it slowly makes its way through the outer ear canal to the opening of the ear. Then it either falls out or is removed when you wash. In most people, the outer ear canal makes earwax all the time, so the canal always has enough wax in it.
So why do we need wax? Earwax has several important jobs. First, it protects and moisturizes the skin of ear canal, preventing dry, itchy ears. Second, it contains special chemicals that fight off infections that could hurt the skin inside the ear canal. Finally, it acts as a shield between the outside world and the eardrum. When dust, dirt, and other things enter your ear, the earwax traps them so they can't travel any further.
If you want to get rid of earwax, here's what you need to do: nothing! Most kids don't need to do anything special to remove earwax. If you wash your hair regularly, this is enough to keep your ears clean.
You can wipe the outside of your ear with a washcloth but don't use a cotton swab, your finger, or anything else to poke around inside your ear to remove earwax. Your ear canal and eardrum are very delicate, and you may hurt them or cause bleeding by trying to get rid of wax this way. Poking around in your ear can also push and pack the wax in further.
In some kids, one or both ear canals make extra earwax. If this sounds like you, tell an adult. Doctors often can prescribe special medicines that are placed in the ear to get rid of extra wax.
Reviewed by: Steven Dowshen, MD
Date reviewed: July 2012

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Monday - Agenda

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Band note goes home today
• 34 more school days left (AAAH!)
• Reading Logs?
• Bring your recorders tomorrow if you took them home

Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in  your agendas:

• Reading logs are overdue
• Spelling test tomorrow
• Spelling sheets due tomorrow
• P.E. posters are overdue
• Costumes tomorrow
• Science projects due tomorrow

Human Body Structures

That blast of air you get when entering stores is used to keep insects out!

They’re called air doors or air curtains. These devices have powerful fans that can blast air all the way to the floor. They have many uses, although their first use was to keep flying insects out of buildings by creating forceful turbulence.
Nowadays, air curtains also have air heaters or coolers, and they serve as a way to keep cold air from escaping in the summer or coming in during the winter. This saves a lot of energy because it reduces heat transfer between two spaces. However, a closed door is still much more effective.

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Fun+Facts/That-Blast-Of-Air-You-Get-When-Entering/56855#YjYf9SFlzxJmzxBV.99

The Game of Pig

The Game of Pig

What you need:
• two dice
• pencil
• paper

What to do:
1. Two or more players take turns rolling two dice.

2. On a turn, roll the dice as many times as you want, mentally keeping a running total of the sum. When you stop rolling, record the total. For previous rounds, add this figure to the total from previous rounds.

3. If a 1 comes up on one of the dice, the player scores 0 for that round and it's the next player's turn. If a 1 comes up on both dice, the turn ends and the player's entire accumulated total becomes 0.

4. The first player to reach a total of 100 points wins.

5. After playing the game, discuss the strategies you used to decide whether to keep rolling or to stop.

 

 

Here we are trying the Game of Pig

 

 

 

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas :

• Report Cards!
• New Reading Logs go home today
• April reading logs were due TODAY.
• Fairy Tale News filming continues tomorrow for scenes we haven't shot yet
• Science Projects due Friday
• Miss S. needs to see and sign your agendas today
• Spelling Test/Sheets - Friday
• Physical Activity Posters are due tomorrow
• The Kindness Project starts today