Phew!!

We have had quite a busy month today!!!! ;D Anyway, we had to do loads of stuff for Education Night!!! We did poems, PBs (Picture Books), Stuffed Toys (to go with our PBs), and Photo Portraits, PHEW!!!! That was a mouthful!!! :) Room 305 is always fun!!!

Even more fun facts!!

Here are more fun facts to defeat ennie with:

1. Any month that has a Friday the 13th also has a Wednesday the 25th.
2. In 21 states, Wal-Mart is the single largest employer.
3. One of Hewlett Packard's first ideas was an automatic urinal flusher.
4. As you age, your eye color gets lighter.
5. There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.
6. The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
7. The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.
8. Illinois has the most personalized license plates of any state.
9. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
10. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
11. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
12. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
13. There are 206 bones in the adult human body, but 300 in children (some of the bones fuse together as a child grows).
14. Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
15. Snakes are true carnivores as they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
16. There are no venomous snakes in Maine.
17. The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
18. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
19. It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

Stay tuned for more, and don't forget to comment on whether mine's beter or Bennie's, and I need feedback on how to improve too!!!

More Fun facts!!

Here are some more fun facts:

1. Galileo did not invent the telescope.
2. Iceland had the world's first legislature.
3. The Mona Lisa is actually not the Mona Lisa, it is actually called La Gioconda.
4. Budapest is really 2 cities.
5. Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat.
6. Betsy Ross might not have sown the 1st American flag.
7. The log cabin was not an American invention.
8. Most eskimos do not live in igloos.
9. PaulRevere never finished his ride.

There's more to come so stay tuned!!!!

*I'm going to beat Benedict, Muahahahaha!!!!*

Junior Achievement tomorrow!!

Tomorrow, we will be having Junior Achievement(J.A.)!!!! Woooooohooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

We will be spending the whole day with Ms Zupan and maybe the 6 people in Ms Goldring's afternoon class!!!

I can't wait for tomorrow!!!!!

Fun facts

Here are my fun facts to beat Bennie's:

1. In the movie, 'Star Wars', during the scene in which Luke gets out of his X-wing fighter after blowing up the Death Star, he accidentally calls Princess Leia 'Carrie' (her real first name).
2. Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
3. The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
4. The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
5. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
6. In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
7. In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
8. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
9. Since 1313, it is illegal for an MP to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.
10. In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.
11. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
12. All polar bears are left handed.
13. All species of beetles are edible.
14. All the gold ever mined could be molded into a cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
15. All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from a single wild golden Hamster found in Syria in 1930!
16. All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room!
17. All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
18. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
19. Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass.
20. Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
21. America once issued a 5-cent bill!
22. Australia''s Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long!
23. Austria was the first country to use postcards.
24. Avocados are poisonous to birds.
25. Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.
26. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings
27. Babe Ruth wore No. 3 because he batted third.
28. Babies are born without knee caps.
29. Babies start dreaming even before they''re born.
30. Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not
31. breastfed.
32. Baby beavers are called kittens.

There will be more to come.... Muahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

I will defeat Bennie!!!!!!!!!!!

Aiming

Listen up everybody!!!!! A call to all bloggers for a blogger in need of all your help!!!!!



Come On!!!! A blogger in need is a friend indeed!!!!!!

Ok!!! Well, let me let to the point!!!! We are all going to help to make another record of the most number of posts. But, only this time it's going to be more!!!!


Let's aim for 3000 posts!!! So, the first "meeting is at 3.45pm today!!!

Next is 7.45pm tomorrow...


Stay tuned for more meetings!!!

1000 comments

In Ms Zupan's blog, we reached 1007 comments!!! We may have set a record!!


All thanks to Bennie, Yeri, Kim, Lucas, me, and many other people!!

We should all do it again!!!! Without your help, we would never have accomplished it!!!!


YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Italian soda

Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! I missed my chance of getting my first italian soda!!!!!!!!!!

Tongue twisters

Try these tongue twisters:

1) Double bubble gum bubbles double

2)Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick

3)Inchworms itching

4)She sifted thistles through her thistle-sifter

5)Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry

6)Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.

7)Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

8)She sees cheese.

9)Flash message!

10)We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

11)A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.

12)Greek grapes.

13)There was a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan.

14)Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

15)A lump of red lead, A red lead lump.

16)The sinking steamer sank.

17)Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

18)Where's the big black bear, the big black bug bit?

19)Five fat friars frying fish.

20)Knapsack straps.

21)A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

22)Three free throws.

23)Santa's Short Suit Shrunk.

24)The myth of Miss Muffet.

25)Vincent vowed vengence very vehemently.

26)Unique New York.

27)Sure the ship's shipshape, sir.

28)A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk.

29)Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.

30)Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

31)I wish you were a fish in my dish.

32)Tie a knot in the shape of a nought.

33)I slit a sheet. A sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet, I sit!

34)A noisy noise annoys an oyster.

35)Six short slow shepherds.

36)Dust is a disk's worst enemy.

37)Fat frogs flying past fast.

38)She said she should sit.

39)A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk.

40)Lovely lemon liniment.



That's all for now!! I may be posting some next time so do check in!!!!!!!!!!

French

Gotta start memorizing my french!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ByEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Picture book

I've finished my picture book and the story's about.......well..........if I told u, it would no longer be a secret, would it?

I think I will just give u a clue..............it has something to do with Aesop's fables and the 3 little pigs. I think that Group 1 already knows.....or maybe just a few people. Bye!!! !-)

Test

There are so many tests next week!!!!!!! Gotta study! Byee!

Math Homework

I have loads of math homework like cartesian systems, etc. And we have to do picture books too!

Portraits

We have to research on a artist who is dead and print out a portrait by him. So, I chose Donatello and I still can't find a good portrait!!!!!!!!!!!! !( Well, bye! I have loads of hmework BTW!!!!!

Stargirl Day

Today, there was Stagirl Day!!! !) You could dress in anything weird, maybe even a cactus!!!

We had a party with loads of snacks!!

Until next time!!!!!!!


Byeeeee!!!