Hi 600! I hope you're having a great day and enjoying the sun!! I will be back tomorrow! Please note the following in your agendas First Nations storytelling presentations tomorrow Book reports and reading logs due tomorrow

Agenda - Wednesday

Hi 600!
I hope you're enjoying your day with Mr. Peterson while I am away! I'll also be gone tomorrow (to mark Grade 6 exemplars) and Mrs. Fuchs will be in for me.  I trust that everyone will be kind, friendly, and respectful to both Mrs. Fuchs and Mr. Peterson. 
Please note the following in your agendas:

• First Nation's Storytelling presentations will be on Friday - Be ready!
• Since I won't be at school until Friday, you have a few extra days to finish your Heroes projects.  I will be doing a homework check Friday
• Book reports/Reading logs due Friday
• Anything else?

Agenda - Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Book report - Due Friday
• Myths final project due tomorrow
• Kevin, Rhiannon, Jesse, Shynika, and Kaylee Report Cards
• All Comp. Forms are going home today, as well as monthly newsletter/principal announcement

Monday - Agenda

Happy Monday! Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Book reports are due this week! - Friday
• Book orders due tomorrow
• Myths final project - due Wednesday.  I will give you more class time to work, however if you haven't started yet, take this home!
• Summer Arts Program brochure goes home today - All questions will be answered by Community Works

Bohemian Rhapsody

When it was released, Bohemian Rhapsody was the most expensive song ever produced
It's Queen's most famous song and was written by the band's lead singer Freddie Mercury. It doesn't have a chorus and instead has three parts: a ballad ending with a guitar solo, an opera passage, and it ends with hard rock.
The reason for the single being so expensive probably lies with the fact that it was a truly unprecedented song. Many people consider it ahead of its time because of how complex some of the techniques they used to record it.
The band rehearsed for 3 weeks before recording it, and the whole song took 3 weeks to record after that! The song wasn't recorded all at once, but in different sections. Mind you, some of these sections weren't just at different times of the song, but also different layers of the song.
The vocals were also extremely complex. Some of the opera chorus vocals were recorded continually for 10 to 12 hours a day, and they pushed the limits of what the current recording tapes allowed them to do. To give you an example of the kind of stuff they did, they had 120 vocal tracks that they had to fit in 24-track tapes.
In the end, though the result was one of the best songs of all time, and a song that has stayed in public consciousness until this day.
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Friday Already?!

After a very short, very cold week at school we're already thisclose to another weekend! Hopefully everyone can enjoy some snow-free weather over the 5th last weekend of the school year!

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Comp visit on Monday.  We need to be at the Comp by 9:20 on Monday morning, and since we are walking, we need to leave Davison ASAP.  Please make sure you are ON TIME on Monday morning!  We will be back before lunch.
• Book orders are due Tuesday
• Green "secret message" math pods sheets will be due MONDAY.

A woman had a waist that is about as wide as a jar of mayonnaise

 
Cathie Jung of Old Mystic, Connecticut has a waist that is only 15 inches wide! Her strange body type stems from the fact that she has worn corsets every days for over 12 years. She claims now to wear corsets 24 hours a day and boasts a collection of over 100 varieties!

She's not a naturally small person either. Her hips and bust are each 39 inches. In 1985, Jung decided to spend the next 7 years shrinking her waist. She imported corsets from England, and gradually worked her way down to her current size. She likes how it looks, but her daughter objected to her showing up to her school looking like that.

Her Guinness Records page. Or, if you want to see more pictures of Jung and her tiny waist, check out her website.

Agenda Thursday

• Swimming forms got e-mailed/sent yesterday and today. Please bring those back ASAP
• Something Good is now overdue
• Information package from the Comp will be sent out soon by Mrs. Kriger.  Parent information night will be June 4th

cschmelinsky@mail.gssd.ca You may get someone in your household to e-mail your Something Good to me

Welcome back! Agenda - Wednesday

I hope everyone had a great long weekend and are now ready to take on the rest of the school year! There are 26 more days of school left this year! Where has this time gone?!

Please note the following in your agendas:

• New Davison principal next year!
• Something Good - Good Copy due Tomorrow
• Missing book reports are now posted on the Missing Assignments tab
• ITN - Kevin, Jesse, Kaylee, David, Sarah... others? You know who you are

Ants can be used as stitches!

Ants can be used as stitches.

The ant can be placed on a cut, and the ant will bite the edges. It will lock on with its mandibles sealing the wound closed like a stitch or a suture. At this time you can remove the ant from it mandibles. The mandibles can remain in place for days as the wound heals.

You can watch this video to see how it works!

Agenda - Friday

Its Friiiiday Friiiiday! Happy May long weekend!

• Book orders due May 29th
• Spelling test Wednesday
• Please don't come back here until Wednesday!

In 61 years, the 24 rabbits introduced to Australia for sport grew to 400 million! Every year, these non-native animals cause millions of dollars of crop damage.

A pioneer named Thomas Austin brought the rabbits from England to his property in Australia for hunting. The rabbits reproduced so fast that 10 years later, 2 million rabbits were being shot annually without making a dent in the population. It was the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal anywhere in the world.

The rabbits have devastated crops and native plant species, killed young trees in orchards and contributed to erosion by digging up topsoil. The rabbit problem has gotten so bad that Australians have resorted to using poison, bulldozers, and ferrets to keep the population at bay.

On the plus side, during the Great Depression there was always a readily available food supply.

Agenda - Thursday

Please note the following in your agendas:

• Math exemplars TOMORROW
• Tourism Week - From 2:00-6:00 The Heritage Museum is open free of charge to all ages
• Book orders go home today
• ITN - Hunter, Kaylee, Faith, Kevin, Jesse, Rhiannon

Wednesday Agenda

Phew! We're done one division assessment! Students completed our RAD assessment today! Everyone is here today! Hooray for 100% attendance!

Please note the following in your agendas:

• Miss S is away tomorrow morning and Mr. Penrose will be filling in
• Hot lunch forms are due TOMORROW. No late forms will be accepted!
• Math- 2nd Cartesian Plane due tomorrow
• Reading strategy cards
• ITN - Faith, Shynika, Sarah, Morgan

Your thumb and fingers don't have ANY muscles.

Our fingers themselves do not have muscles in them. This obviously might make you wonder how exactly we can move our fingers. Well, the short answer is by remote control.
You might be thinking that we move everything by remote control, because the brain is what controls everything. But the fingers are special because of their lack of muscle.
Fingers are moved by tendons, pulled by muscles in the forearm. That's why if you flex your fingers, you can feel the muscles in your forearm. You could say that we don't directly control our fingers at all.
The muscles in the forearm and palm are connected to the finger bones by smooth, flexible strings called tendons. The way our finger joints bend is by the muscles pulling on these tendons.
This is partly why many people can't bend their pinkies all the way without also bending their ring fingers. These muscles operate somewhat like strings on a marionette.
The total muscle count involved is 17 in the palm of the hand and 18 in the forearm. It's pretty interesting that the parts of our body that we use so frequently are completely devoid of muscles.
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Agenda - Tuesday

Wow! What a great day! We had a very infomative, mature discussion on images in magazines and the impact on our perception of body image! Way to go grade 6! We start RAD testing tomorrow, so please be sure to get a good sleep tonight and eat breakfast tomorrow morning so you are able to perform to the best of your ability!

Please note the following in your agendas:

• Hot lunch forms due Thursday
• ITN - Check missing assignments tab
• Reading Strategies/Word attack strategies book marks - Did you hand it in?
• RAD testing tomorrow
• Math exemplar Friday
• Rhiannon, Kevin, Jesse, Shynika and Kaylee. REPORT CARDS.

Happy Monday!

We have started an extremely busy week! We have two division-wide assessments to complete this week! I hope everyone is able to get a good night's sleep so we'll be able to perform to the best of our ability in both Math Exemplars and RAD testing!

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Start thinking about what you'd like to sign up to do at the upcoming track meet!
• ITN - Madisyn, Shynika, Jayne, Sarah, Rhiannon
• Copy your to-do list into your agenda

Taiwanese scientists have made glowing green pigs!

These pigs had jellyfish genetic material added to them when they were still embryos. During the day, the pigs have a greenish tinge to their skin, and have partially green eyes and teeth. In the dark, however, their entire bodies glow a bright green. Amazingly, not only did this first generation of gene-transplanted pigs successfully glow in the dark, but their natural offspring inherited this ability as well.
(Sources: 1, 2)

Agenda Friday

Happy Mother's Day Monday
Math Cards - Monday
Last call for reading strategy bookmarks - Monday
ITN Jayne, Sarah, Madisyn
Re-tell me a story - Rough AND Good copy due Wednesday next week

One man invented Band-Aids, granola bars, plastic ketchup bottles, microwaveable containers and disposable diapers!

One man invented Band-Aids, granola bars, plastic ketchup bottles, microwaveable containers and disposable diapers!
His name is Stanley Mason and he died in 2006 at 84-years old. In his long and productive career, he had over 60 US-patents under his name. The most impressive thing is that they are things extremely varied in nature. In his career he worked as a professional inventor, working with many corporate clients to create products.
Some credit his success to his process. Before he even starts designing an invention, he first discovers the need for a product. If he realizes that there are many people who would buy his invention; then he spends time inventing it. This process led him to invent things as varied as band-aids, granola bars, and disposable diapers.

Early D Thursday Agenda

Early D today
Spelling Lesson 15 due Friday
Check Missing assignments tab - updated
Hot lunch form - due Thursday May 17th
Bookmarks due Friday

Wednesday's Agenda

Once again, thank you to the 600 students who made Mrs. Karius' life easier yesterday while I was away.  She reports that she had a great day and there was a lot of work that got done! Way to go!

Please note the following in your agendas:

• Bring back your Hot Lunch forms asap
• Early D tomorrow!
• RAD testing next week

Random Fact - Pluto

Sunlight takes 5 ½ hours to reach Pluto.

The speed of light is 186,287 miles per second. It only takes 499 seconds (a little over 8 minutes) for light to travel from the Sun to Earth. You get a broad idea of just how large our solar system is when you think about it in this way:

186,287 miles/second x 5 ½ hours (330 seconds) = 61,474,710 miles to Pluto from the Sun!
(NASA)

Agenda for Tuesday

Hi 600!
I am away ill today and I hope to be back tomorrow.  Please add anything on to this agenda that I may have missed
Please note the following in your agendas:

• Math homework check page 80 (and 81?) tomorrow
• Hot lunch forms go home today (pink sheet)
• New spelling list today
• Spelling lesson 15 will be due Friday - When you've finished, please hand it in to your folder
• Early D this week

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Math assignment - Homework check tomorrow
• What is a blue moon? (Science)

Think of a Number

Multiply it by 2. Add any even number. Divide your answer by 2. Subtract your original number.

Your answer will always be half of the EVEN number you added.

TRY IT.               

Agenda - Thursday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Lesson 14 Spelling test tomorrow
• French test tomorrow
• ALL "extra" points (including the 4 mandatory points for French) need to be handed in by tomorrow
• Please bring a magazine, or catalogue with you tomorrow (I'll explain more in health)

THESE THINGS APPLY TO EVERYONE IN THIS CLASS AND SHOULD ALL BE WRITTEN DOWN.

Popsicles were invented by an 11-year-old!

 
Much like Marie Curie's discovery of radioactivity, this milestone in chemistry was discovered by accident. Frank Epperson was just an 11 year old kid when he left his fruit flavored soda outside his porch, with a stirring stick in it. Presumably because it was cold, or because the gods of invention came down to help him, the soda froze and he found that it had retained it's flavor. Eureka!
It took him 18 more years to actually patent the darn thing, and he called it the Epsicle ice pop. His children renamed it Popsicle until they sold it in 1925. It took the Great Depression for another genius to come up with the idea for the twin popsicle, which is just two popsicles stuck together. I think I'll melt three together and call it a Three Headed Monsticle and make millions!

(Source)

Wednesday Agenda

A question was raised today about the soccer forms that were sent home this week. This program is run by the City of Melville so forms can be dropped off at either City Hall or the Credit Union Center!

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Space title page due tomorrow
• If you recieved a "present" from Mrs. Braun today please bring your overdue library books back to school ASAP!
• Spelling test AND French test on Friday.  Remember, you can boost your mark before you even write your test!

 Chickens, usually considered a relatively foolish animal, are actually smarter than most others! It turns out that chickens can be more intelligent than dogs and cats, and second only to humans and other primates. What distinguishes chickens from other animals?
It's their ability to anticipate future events based on past occurrences and the ability demonstrate self-control. Chickens are also able to feel stress, another feeling they were not previously thought capable of having, which raises a red flag for animal rights advocates because of the implications associated with being killed for food.
(Source) OMG Facts

Happy May Day!
Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• We're out of kleenex!! If you are able, please bring a box to school so the next 2 months of school won't be so sniffly! This is greatly appreciated! :)
• April reading logs were due today.  Please bring these in asap
• French test Friday
• Space title page due Thursday
• New book report - Date has been set for June 1st!
• Spelling Test Friday