Hi Everybody,
It was a quiet week this week - I hope that means you were out enjoying the sunshine! Perhaps some of you were able to meet some family or friends outdoors. I met some friends for a walk and it felt great to be able to chat to them in person again.
I was thinking of you all when I heard this song during the week - I know how much you all enjoyed singing it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uTFF_3MaA
I am going to do classmate catch up in Monday's letter. If you want to share your riddle/limerick from yesterday or any news or work send them to me at cmonahan@newtownprimary.ie
In the meantime here are some interesting facts I found - do you know any other interesting facts?
Bet you didn't know.....
Ms Monahan :-)
It was a quiet week this week - I hope that means you were out enjoying the sunshine! Perhaps some of you were able to meet some family or friends outdoors. I met some friends for a walk and it felt great to be able to chat to them in person again.
I was thinking of you all when I heard this song during the week - I know how much you all enjoyed singing it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uTFF_3MaA
I am going to do classmate catch up in Monday's letter. If you want to share your riddle/limerick from yesterday or any news or work send them to me at cmonahan@newtownprimary.ie
In the meantime here are some interesting facts I found - do you know any other interesting facts?
Bet you didn't know.....
- It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A shrimp's (prawn's) heart is in its head.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.
- Some lipsticks contain fish scales.
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.
- The longest one-syllable words in the English language are "scraunched" and "strengthed." Some suggest that "squirreled" could be included, but squirrel is intended to be pronounced as two syllables (squir-rel) according to most dictionaries. "Screeched" and "strengths" are two other long one-syllable words, but they only have 9 letters.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.
Ms Monahan :-)