The Mall of America is using 72 000 ladybugs as pest control!

The Mall of America is using 72,000 ladybugs as pest control!

We've had facts before about how big the Mall of America is. To recap: It's huge. It's so big, it has a full theme park inside and 7 Yankee stadiums could fit inside. The Mall has over 30,000 live plants, including 400 trees. As a result, the Mall also has pests that affect plants.
Aphids feed on plants and are generally a gardener's bad news. To keep the aphid population down, the Mall of America groundskeepers recently released about 72,000 ladybugs in the mall. Ladybugs prey on Aphids and will hopefully keep the mall's plants green and happy.
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Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/category/4/Animals#zwvKM6xJTtW1QZgW.99

Agenda - Snoooooowwwwy Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Note goes home today/e-mail
• Overdue books : Austin, Cassie, Kylie, Garrett
• April reading logs are due tomorrow
• No marks for March reading logs for: Makayla, Bany, Colby, Austin, Taylen, Delaney, True and Anteneh.
• Book talks - Last Call

An allergist has spent 60 years cracking ONLY his left-hand knuckles to prove it's not bad for you!

The original fact on cracking your knuckles is one of our most popular of all time. Basically, it said that cracking your knuckles is not bad for you, no matter what the old wives' tales may say.
However, probably the most convincing study on this comes from a man who just won an "Ig Nobel" for his self-study on knuckle-cracking.
Dr. Donald Unger has spent the better part of the last 60 years cracking the knucles of his left hand. He started because he wanted to prove his mom wrong when she told him he would have health problems if he kept doing it.
Since he started, he has NEVER cracked the knuckles on his right hand. This means that, if it's true that cracking your knuckles was bad for your fingers, then his left-hand fingers would have a horrible arthritis while his right-hand fingers would be ok.
Well, the doctor, now 83, says "there is not the slightest sign of arthritis in either hand." His research has won him an "Ig Nobel," which is a tongue-in-cheek parody of the real Nobel awards.
I'm glad he did this, because I don't know if I'd have the willpower to resist NOT cracking my other hand's knuckles if I could only do one side.

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/History/An-Allergist-Has-Spent-60-Years-Cracking/49260#lgXhAtAPGdK50yRT.99

Agenda - Monday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• We are still in need of Kleenex. Thank you to the 3 people who brought some in last week.  Tis the season for sniffles and runny noses!
• Bring costumes for filming tomorrow
• Math #1-2 due tomorrow
• New spelling lists go home today
• Reading logs are due Thursday
• Science projects due Friday
• Physical Activity posters due Thursday
• ASAP tomorrow at lunch if you will have trouble getting any of these assignments in on time.

There is a record for the number of tennis balls held in a dog's mouth.

There’s a record for the number of tennis balls held in a dog’s mouth!

The world record is 5 tennis balls. It’s held by a golden retriever named Augie. He lives in Dallas, TX with the Miller family. The record was set in 2003, when Augie successfully held 5 standard sized tennis balls in his mouth. I don't know what's more interesting... the fact that Augie held 5 balls in his mouth, or that they keep track of these things.
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Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/Animals/There-s-A-Record-For-The-Number-Of-Tenni/49327#WwBKdLwL5cLuOvkD.99

Some stars are as cold as the human body!

Scientists have discovered 6 Y dwarf stars that are as cold as the human body. This was an exciting discovery, because astronomers had unsuccessfully been looking for the stars for over a decade. The reason for this is that these specific stars are nearly impossible to see with a visible-light telescope.
You can only see them with infrared vision telescopes, though. They are the coldest of the brown dwarf family and known as “failed” stars, because they're too low in mass to fuse atoms at their core and burn the fires that keep stars like our sun, shining .
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Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/History/Some-Stars-Are-As-Cold-As-The-Human-Body/49331#Ymxx8CuY8SBU0cRZ.99

Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• We are out of kleenex :(  Please bring some to school if you can
• Have a great weekend! :)