“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Habitat……………Habit………….
Ocean habitat…….
Good habits…………
Happy Holidays!!
PHOTO: MIKAN no. 3397007/Canada. Dept. of National Defence, Library and Archvies Canada
Wounded coming in at the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
The Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 is considered to be a pivotal moment in Canada’s history. It was the first time that all four Canadian divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force fought together in the First World War and is seen by some as the time that Canadians started to see themselves as an independent nation and not a colony of Great Britain.
SIZE OF NEPTUNE COMPARED WITH THE EARTH
Side by side comparison of the size of Neptune vs Earth
FACTS ABOUT NEPTUNE
It takes Neptune 164.8 Earth years to orbit the Sun. On 11 July 2011, Neptune completed its first full orbit since its discovery in 1846.
Neptune was discovered by Jean Joseph Le Verrier. The planet was not known to ancient civilizations because it is not visible to the naked eye. The planet was initially called Le Verrier after its discoverer. This name, however, quickly was abandoned and the name Neptune was chosen instead.
Neptune is the Roman God of the Sea. In Greek, Neptune is called Poseidon.
Neptune has the second largest gravity of any planet in the solar system – second only to Jupiter.
The orbit path of Neptune is approximately 30 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. This means it is around 30 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
The largest Neptunian moon, Triton, was discovered just 17 days after Neptune itself was discovered.
Neptune has a storm similar the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. It is commonly known as the Great Dark Spot and is roughly the size of Earth.
Neptune also has a second storm called the Small Dark Spot. This storm is around the same size as Earth’s moon.
Neptune spins very quickly on its axis. The planets equatorial clouds take 18 hours to complete one rotation. The reason this happens is that Neptune does not have a solid body.
Only one spacecraft, the Voyager 2, has flown past Neptune. It happened in 1989 and captured the first close-up images of the Neptunian system. It took 246 minutes – four hours and six minutes – for signals from Voyager 2 to reach back to Earth.
The climate on Neptune is extremely active. In its upper atmosphere, large storms sweep across it and high-speed solar winds track around the planet at up to 1,340 km per second. The largest storm was the Great Dark Spot in 1989 which lasted for around five years.
Like the other outer planets, Neptune possesses a ring system, though its rings are very faint. They are most likely made up of ice particles and grains of dust with a carbon-based substance coating them.
Neptune has 14 known moons. The largest of these moons is Titan – a frozen world which spits out particles of nitrogen ice and dust from below its surface. It is believed that Titan was caught by the immense gravitational pull of Neptune and is regarded as one of the coldest worlds in our solar system.
Neptune has an average surface temperature of -214°C – approximately -353°F.
Some say that we should stop exploring space, that the cost in human lives is too great. But Columbia’s crew would not have wanted that. We are a curious species, always wanting to know what is over the next hill, around the next corner, on the next island. And we have been that way for thousands of years.
STUART ATKINSON, New Mars, March 7, 2003
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd,
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack…..”
Kindle edition now available, book published in March 2019….
See you soon, everyone!!
Summer’s here! Even more reading time!!
“The Starry Night”, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh
Groucho Marx……
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Haaylitlik – the Sea Serpent
by Ray Sim, Musqueam Band, Coast Salish peoples.
This particular piece of artwork is actually Nuu-Chah-Nulth in design and name, rather than Coast Salish. While Ray Sim’s mother and grandmother are from Musqueam, the artist himself grew up in Port Alberni and thus participated in Nuu-Chah-Nulth ceremonies there. The Sea Serpent is usually depicted as a double-headed Supernatural creature. It is told in legends that after the Great Flood, the Sea Serpent wished to live on dry land. Its powers allowed the creature to transform into a man, but soon the Sea Serpent longed to fly. Because he was too heavy, the Sea Serpent called the Thunderbird for help. Often the two Supernatural animals are therefore connected; however, the Sea Serpent is also known as the guardian and warrior of the Supernatural world.
Ray Sim (born 1968) is a member of the Musqueam Band of the Coast Salish
peoples in Vancouver, BC, but he also has close family ties with the Gitanmaax Band through his grandfather. Sim spent two years of formal training with Vernon Stephens and Ken Mowatt at the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Art in Hazelton. Although he primarily carves, Sim has continually experimented with painting, printmaking and shawl designs using Salish art designs.
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, from “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
OCTOBER 3, 2017
In our library…….go read it!
Now in our English Library….
This week in English class, you will receive a Reading Calendar for the month of September. Please read, in English, for a minimum of 15 minutes each day, 5 days per week outside of our class times; then record your minutes on your calendar. Bring your completed calendar to school in early October, and it will be included in a raffle for a prize!
This is the most important part of all our work together in English Language Arts-and it can be a very enjoyable activity!
WELCOME BACK, EVERYONE!
BEACH READING……….toes in the sand, book in my hand….
Make your Summer Reading List, and prevent “Summer Slide”…..
JOIN YOUR LIBRARY NOW
May Reading Calendars should be brought to class, to be included in the May Calendar Raffles.
Author Visit/Writing Workshop with Ms Wendy Phillips tomorrow (May 10th) at École des Navigateurs…………
May 3rd 2017
May 2nd 2017
April Reading Calendar Raffles this week!!!
On Wednesday: Ecole des Navigateurs
On Thursday: Ecole du Bois-Joli
CHOCOLATE PRIZES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 25th 2017
READ.
This infographic details the locations of the participating telescopes of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global mm-VLBI Array (GMVA). Their goal is to image, for the very first time, the shadow of the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, as well as to study the properties of the accretion and outflow around the Galactic Centre.
IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT……….
Event Horizon Telescope captures the direct image of a black hole for the first time.
This past Wednesday, April 12th, 2017, a team of international astronomers managed to capture the first direct image of a Sagittarius A black hole using a collective telescope technique called the Event Horizon Telescope.
The system combines the use of eight different observatories around to the world, as explained by Michael Bremer, an astronomer at the International Research Institute for Radio Astronomy.
Instead of building a telescope so big that it would probably collapse under its own weight, we combined eight observatories like the pieces of a giant mirror. This gave us a virtual telescope as big as Earth—about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) is diameter.
Using this system, the team was able to create the first direct image ever of the area surrounding a black hole, giving it a shape and creating a very clear representation of the event horizon, the point where light can’t escape the black hole’s gravity.
Won’t be available to see until 2018
The telescopes used in the Event Horizon Telescope system are “the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, the Arizona Radio Observatory Submillimeter Telescope, the IRAM 30-meter Telescope in Spain, the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano in Mexico, the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica, and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and Submillimeter Array at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.” Together, they collected 500 TB worth of images and information over the course of a six-night period from April 5 to April 11.
All data is currently in transit to MIT, where it will be compiled to create the final image. This will not be expected for public viewing until 2018 with the data from the South Pole station unavailable until later this year during the southern hemisphere’s spring.
The Event Horizon Telescope system has been in use since 2006.
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