Agenda - Long weekend - FRIDAY

Happy Thanksgiving weekend everybody!

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Book orders go home today (Due Oct. 11th)
• Spelling points (30) due Tuesday
• Reminder: Reading logs over Thanksgiving

Carrots haven’t been orange for that long!

Before the 17th century rolled in, almost all carrots cultivated were purple! The modern day orange carrot wasn’t even cultivated until Dutch growers in the late 16th century took mutant strains of the purple carrot, including yellow and white carrots (mutated versions of the regular purple carrot) and gradually developed them into the orange variety we have today.
It is believed that this strange desire to change the color of a vegetable was brought about the fact that the emblem of the House of Carrots was also orange. So, the orange carrot became popular in the Netherlands because it represented the struggle for Dutch independence.
It is more likely however, that the success of orange carrots had to the fact the orange carrots that the Dutch developed were sweeter and more fleshy than the purple ones.
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Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/page/6#yFvqyEu1WBhbDj1z.99

One could crawl through the arteries in a blue whale’s heart.

You probably know that the blue whale is the biggest marine mammal in existence. But would you ever have thought you could crawl through its heart? Well at the very least you can crawl through its major arteries. Blue whales are so large that an adult blue whale’s heart can be almost 2,000 pounds.
It only beats once every ten seconds and the beat is so loud that it can be heard two miles away. If you’re agile enough, you could crawl right through its arteries because of how big they are. The heart is actually so big, it’s the size of a mini cooper.
Some other facts about just how big blue whales are: Their lungs are pretty big too. Each lung is the size of an average closet. Also, their tongues are so heavy that they outweigh elephants! As far as overall size goes, you've probably heard they can be as large as two city buses. Let’s just be thankful they don’t eat people.
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Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/page/3#OJrH2O6JEYgcYlQW.99

Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• School pictures go home today
• Spelling test tomorrow
• ITN - ?
• Library tomorrow - Bring books!
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Tuesday Agenda

• Spelling pre-test tomorrow
• X-country permission forms
• ELA mystery stories due tomorrow
• Ask me about: Cool Kids Care presentation

Agenda - Monday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:
-Spelling sheets due TOMORROW (Tuesday)
-In the News Presentations start Tomorrow (Kylie and Spencer)
-Cross Country permission forms go home today
-Library notes go home today!
-Anything Else?