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Fun Facts – September 6, 2010
Thought of the Day:
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” -Henry Ford
Joke of the Day:
What is round, sad, and lives in your car trunk? De-spair tire.
Random Fact of the Day:
The percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had to do it all over again: 80%. The percentage of American women who say the same: 50%.
Journal Entry Idea:
What do you want to be when you grow up? Why?
Fun Facts – September 3, 2010
Thought of the Day:
“The impossible is what nobody can do until someone does it.” -Anonymous
Joke of the Day:
What did the frog say when he saw a fly in his soup? Is that all I get?
Random Fact of the Day:
You can tell the temperature by listening to a cricket chirp. For the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37.
Journal Entry Idea:
The expression “blind as a bat” is false because bats can see about as well as humans can. Explain how you think this expression came about.
Fun Facts – September 2, 2010
Thought of the Day:
“Don’t belittle…be big.” -Anonymous
Joke of the Day:
Why did the teacher wear sunglasses? Because the students were so bright!
Random Fact of the Day:
On average, women utter 7,000 words a day; men manage just over 2,000.
Journal Entry Idea:
Imagine that you could change one thing about your school. Write a letter to your principal persuading her or him to make the change.
Fun Facts – September 1, 2010
Thought of the Day:
“Whatever you do, don’t do it halfway.” -Bob Beamon
Joke of the Day:
How did the scientist invent bug spray? She started from scratch.
Random Fact of the Day:
Mr. Potato Head was the first toy advertised on television.
Journal Entry Idea:
If you could write a best-selling book, what would it be about? Write a paragraph for the book jacket that describes what your book is about.
Fun Facts – August 31, 2010
Thought of the Day:
“The measure of a person’s real character is what they do if they knew they would never be found out.” -Thomas MacAuley
Joke of the Day:
When are farmers mean? When they pull the ears off corn!
Random Fact of the Day:
Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor challenged him to produce a book using fewer than 50 different words.
Journal Entry Idea:
Write about a time when you would have liked to have been temporarily invisible.