Did you know

Did you know that in 79 A.D, Mount Vesuvius erupted, spraying ash and poisonous gases over 12 miles high. That's twice the size of Mount Everest. The eruption buried the city and Pompeii wasn't seen again for 1,669 years, when it was discovered in 1748.



Seth

Today we learned how to to a Tanka pome it needs 5 lines and it can be about what ever you won't 

Cam

Tanka example

here is a tanka poem example
The puck on my stick
Feeling the breeze on my face
Dangling through the players
Ready to take the big shot
Heating the puck hit the net

Grady

Tanka Poems

A tanka poem has 5 lines which the first line as 5 syllables, the sencond 7, the 3rd 5, 4th 7 and the 5th 7

Danika

Haiku poems

A haiku poem has 17 syllables altogether and has only 3 short lines and has to be about nature or animals.

The definition of: nuisance

The definition of nuisance is: somebody or something that is annoying you.

Pingos

This week during Social Studies we were learning about pingos. What is a pingo? Pingos are ice-cored mounds that rise up in permafrost zones like the Mackenzie Delta. Some are 20 to 25 meters tall! Ibyuk Pingo, Canada's tallest pingo is 49 meters tall and 300 meters across, making it the second tallest pingo in the world!
-Carlee

A Haiku is about nature and animals. Does not have to rhyme and has only three short lines

Cayden

Spelling

This week snoop was in our spelling list. To snoop is to spy on or sneak around.

Garett

Did you know?

Did you know that a haiku is meant to draw a mental picture and they are usually about nature and animals.


Seth

Did you know

Did you know that a Hiaku poem only has 3 lines.
Alyssa

When we divide by a power of 10 greater then then 1 move the decimal to the left as many places as there are zeros

Danika

Did you know

Did you know that a Haiku poem only has 3 lines the first line has to have 5 syllables and the second line has to have 7 syllables and the third line has to have 5 syllables.
Shaina

A haiku poem has three lines with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and five in the last line

Avery

Nuisance

Nuisance n. An inconvenience or annoyance: the nuisance of carrying the heavy package. nuisances.
Trista

Haiku poems. By: breanna

A haiku is poem about nature or animals it must have three short lines and the first and last have to be 5 syllables and the middle has to be 7 syllables

Spikeball

Yesterday in Enrichment we learned how to play spikeball

Winner of Rock Paper Scissors gets to choose what side they want or to serve first
Games or played to 21. You must win by 2 points.
The receiving team sets their position.
Hits must alternate between teams.
If the defensive team hits the ball call hinder.

Shane

Vocation

The definition for the word vocation is -a profession that one is skilled at or has been trained for. Other word form a are vocations or vocational.

Carmen

Math fact

When we divid by a power of ten less than one move the decimal to the right as many places as there are decimal places.

💪Cole💪

Fires

today in enrichment we learned the different ways of building fires. They are the tipi way the log cabin way and the way that you take a big log and lean little sticks on it


Eric

Dividing

when dividing by a power of ten you take the decimal to the left as many times as there are 0's
Braeden

Dividing by a Power of 10 less than 1

To divide by a power of 10 that is less than 1, move the decimal to the right as many places as there are decimal places.  Example:  78.6 divide by 0.1 = 786

Hannah

Math

to divide 321 by 10 you have to move the decimal to the left which makes 32.1



Grady

Canada's first game was in 1910 vs Switzerland the score was 8-1 Canada won

Cayden

Top 10 tough guys that can dangle

10. Steve Downie- Arizona Coyotes
9. Milan Lucic- Los Angles Kings
8. Derek Dorsett- Vancouver Canucks
7. Brandon Prust- Vancouver Canucks
6. Dion Phaneuf- Toronto Maple Leafs
5. Antoine Roussel- Dallas Stars
4. Chris Neil- Ottawa Senators
3. David Backes- St. Louis Blues
2. Dustin Byfuglien- Winnipeg Jets
1. Scott Hartnell- Columbus Blue Jackets

Shane

Fact

When hippos get upset there sweat turns red

Eric

Did You know

that in the 1950's that the United States decided that it would be a good idea to launch a nuclear missile to the moon why? Because it would give them a leg up at the space age


Rainniel

Canadian Facts

1.in Ontario it is illegal to clime trees

2.Canadians make candy called tire dérable by pouring maple syrup on snow then rolling it on to a Popsicle stick.

3.Canadians eat more donuts than any other country in the world.

By Haley.

Fun Fact About Snipers

Since sniper bullets can travel so far sometimes snipers have to adjust to the Earth moving because by the time it hits its target the Earth would have rotated a bit.

Garett

Friday the 13th 😵🤕

On November Friday the 13th

 Paris- terrorist attack 

Japan- earthquake 

Baghdad- funeral bombed 

Beirut- suicid bombing 

Mexico- earthquake 

And This all happened on Friday the 13th
Danika

More Phobias

Dendrophobia-Fear of Trees
Ephebiphobia-Fear of Teenagers
Didaskaleinophobia-Fear of going to School
Geliophobia-Fear of Laughter
Hippopotomonstroesquipelaliophobia-Fear of long Words

Trista

wow

I am is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Avery

Erasers

1. Pencil manufacturers make erasers too, which has become familiar, however that wasn't always the case...
2. The pencil with an eraser on the end is an American phenomenon. The first patent for a pencil with an eraser on the end was in 1858 to a man by the name of Hyman Lipman of Philidelphia. Even to this day pencils sold in Europe are eraser-less.
3. An eraser with a different name? Originally, what we now call an eraser was called a "rubber" because the tree resin it was made of "rubbed-out" pencil marks. In Great Britain they still use the original name!
-Carlee

Did you know

Did you know that there was a day that Winnipeg was colder than the surface of Mars? And now NASA has named a Mars rock after Winnipeg!

Seth

John Cena

John Cena is 38 years old and he was born on April 23 1977
Shane

5 facts about Canada

1. Winnipeg is covered in snow 132 days of the year

2. Canada has the safest highways.

3.Canada owns a underground laboratory in Sudbury Ontario

4. Winnipeg has the highest snake population in all of Canada

5. Hamilton is the first windiest city in Canada
Breanna

Fun fact

61 percent of Americans pee in the shower



Grady

Interesting Facts about Pie

- 47% of Americans think of pie when asked what comforts them

- 1 of 5 Americans have ate a whole pie by themselves in one sitting

- 113 million Americans have eaten pie for breakfast

- 1 in 3 Americans have eaten pie in bed

- Key Lime Pie is the official pie of Florida

- It used to be against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas
- 9% of Americans prefer to eat the crust of the pie first

Hannah

Pencils

1. Before the invention of erasers artists and writers  used bread crumbs to erase their mistakes.
2. Pencils can write in zero gravity, and were used on space missions  by American and Russian astronauts.

Carmen

Did you know that the egg came before the chicken because the "Proto-Chicken" laid the chicken egg, creating the chicken!  Link: https://youtu.be/1a8pI65emDE

-Jordan

Fun Fact

These next words can be read forward and backwards-Do geese see God

Garett

Ceiling Fact

There are billions and billions of square feet of ceilings in the world.

-Carlee

A mini gun can fire up to 2000 to 6000 rounds per minute

Cayden

Fun fact

When hippos are upset their sweat turns red

Alyssa 

Toronto Maple Leafs

The Maple Leafs won 2-1 over Nashville in a shoot out 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 Shane

Fact

a duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why


Eric

Did you know?

NASA has found flowing water on Mars

Seth

5 cool facts Breanna

Did you know:

  1. otters sleep holding hands

  2.  The mimic octopus can not only change colours but is can change shapes as well

  3.  Caterpillars completely liquefy when they turn into moths or butterflies 

  4.  You will eat at least 10 spiders in your sleep

  5.  You have 70 000 thoughts a day

Did You Know?

That the present mobile phone have more computing power than the computers used for Apollo 11
To land on the moon.


Rainniel

Fun facts

1. There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth
2.  The longest recorded chicken flight is 13 seconds
3. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells

Braeden

fact

Months that begin with a  Sunday will have a Friday the 13 in them

Cole

3 interesting facts you probably didn't know!!

1.kids get more nightmares then adults.

2.your bones are harder then concrete.

3.a tarantula can live for more then 2 years without eating a single thing.

Haley

Cool facts⭐️

You have about 70,000 thousand thoughts a day💥
 



Danika

1. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.
2. You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
3. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Cam 

Interesting Facts about Canada

- 77% of the maple syrup produced in the world comes from Canada
- In Saskatchewan a hoodie is called a bunny hug
- Canadian 100 dollar bills smell like maple syrup
- Canada is the garter snake capital of the world
- Alberta has a national park bigger than the country of Switzerland
- British Columbia has a national bathtub race
- There was going to be a province named Buffalo

Hannah

Phobias

Acrophobia- Fear of heights
Bibliophobia- Fear of books
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens
Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes

Trista

Team WHL

Tonight team WHL will play team Russia in the subway serieshttp://canadarussia.chl.ca/page/whl-roster http://canadarussia.chl.ca/page/russia-roster




Grady

Chairs

1. chairs came into common use in only the 16th century before the people sat on rocks and benches.
2. the earliest known reference to musical chairs dates back to 1877.

Carmen

RandomFacts

10 Random Fact:

1.The only food that doesn't rot is honey
2.Cat respond better to women than to men
3.You can tell a cats mood by looking into it's eyes
4.If left in the dark, goldfish will eventually turn white
5.Mosquitos are attracted to people that have just eaten bananas
6.Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower
7.Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales
8.Snails can sleep for 3 years
9.The current flag for the USA was designed by a 17year old for a school project, he only got a B-
10.The Statue of Liberty was ment for Egypt

-Jordan

Did You Know?

The first one gigabyte disk drive was announced in the 1980's
it weighs about 550 pounds and bad the price tag of $40000


Rainniel

Did you no the first ever NHL team was The Montreal Canadiens 

Cam 

Did you know

Did you know that NASA has found an asteroid from mars that had fossilized microbes on it which suggests life on Mars?

Seth

3 Fun Facts

1. Human saliva has a boiling point three times the boiling point of regular water.
2. The top six foods that make your fart are beans, corn, bell peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and milk.
3. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.

Garett

Did you know?

that honey will never get spoiled/bad

Haley

trees

there are approximately 3.04 trillion trees on Earth

-Avery

Did you know

Did you know that there's a naturally pink lake in Austrilia (Lake Hillier)
Alyssa

cole

Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body

Crows

A group of crows is called a murder

Danika

Blue Jays Fact

Alex Anthopoulos's contract is about to expire, but he says he wants to remain with the Blue Jays.
-Carlee

True that

did you know glucose is one of the many sugars in RedBull energy Drink
Shaina

If dogs are having discomfort with their stomach they will eat grass, after they will have less discomfort with their stomach

Fact

did you know that when your 30 years old you will have lived your 1 billionth second
Trista

fact

One forth of the bones in your body are in your foot
Braeden

Calgary Flames

The Flames won 2-1 in overtime against the Philadelphia Flyers

Shane

Fact

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump

Eric

Candy

The M &M in M & M stands for Mars and Murray. Forest Mars Sr and Bruce Murray launched the candy.

Carmen

Fun Facts about Ice cream

1. July is the national ice cream month
2. Next to cookies, ice cream is the most enjoyed treat in America
3. The top 5 ice cream consuming countries are New Zealand (1), USA (2),  Australia (3),  Finland (4), Sweden (5)
4. The tallest ice cream cone was over 9 feet
5. Chocolate syrup is the most popular ice cream topping in the world
6. 87% of Americans have ice cream in the freezer at any given time
7. It takes about 50 licks to finish a single scoop of ice cream
8. 1 in 10 people admit to licking the bowl clean after having ice cream


Hannah

What bugs taste like?!

Did you know that beetles taste like apples and wasps taste like pine nuts and worm taste like fried bacon Breanna

Carbon

Earth would be frozen if Carbon didn't trap heat in the atmosphere

Grady