Feb29th.net is the brain child of David Mitchell – Deputy Headteacher at Heathfield Primary School in Bolton in the NW of England. David has seen the impact of blogging first hand after increases in Level 5 writing scores jumped from 9% in 2009 to 60% in 2010 after the introduction of blogging. Each of the last two Year 6 classes to leave Heathfield Primary School have both left making on average, per child, 2 years progress in just 12 months in their writing. Read a great article about this in the Independent.
Feb29th.net has one aim only – To raise the profile of blogging to learners of all ages across the globe so that the power of a genuine audience can be experienced by as many people as possible.
So why is blogging so important to learners?
Blogging is all about the audience. Having a real global audience makes a huge difference to learners of any age. How many times must teachers say “Consider your audience!” expecting their pupils to do something extra special for them? Give a child access to a blog and their audience becomes real.
Feb29th.net is special because it is a stripped down version of bogging where people can post and leave an imprint in history with just one click. With help from the guys at CreativeBlogs.net this blog is here to capture posts from around the world on this extra day.
Don’t forget to post about your day but also please comment on someone else’s post, you’ll make their day!
David Mitchell
@DeputyMitchell
Founder of Feb29th.net
COPPER ATOMIC NUMBER 29
29 Scientific Facts About Copper!!!
1/. Copper is a natural anti-bacterial
2/. Pennies are only 5% copper and 95% Zinc
3/. The Statue of Liberty contains 179,000 pounds of copper.
4/. The Egyptians used the ankh symbol to denote copper in their system of hieroglyphs. It also represented eternal life.
5/. The average home contains 400 pounds of copper wiring.
6/.The mass number of copper is 63.546
7/. One of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls found in Israel is made of copper instead of fragile animal skins. The scroll contains clues to a still undiscovered treasure.
8/. The average person will use 1,500 pounds of copper (cellphones and computers etc.)
9/. All gold contains some levels of copper, because gold is so soft.
10./ Today’s US coins, dimes, quarters and half dollars have solid copper core an outer layer of copper, nickel alloy.
11/. The average car has 50 pounds of copper.
12/. a copper earthing system is all the is required to protect against lightning strikes
13/. a copper coating applied to a surgeon’s scalpel conducts electricity to heat the blade, rendering the instrument self-cauterising.
14/. The symbol of Copper is Cu
15/. Profesional chefs prefer to cook with copper pots and pans
16/. Copper can be purified with electrolysis.
17/. Copper has two stable isotopes – 63 and 65.
18/. Copper Sulfate is blue.
19/. Copper Chloride is green.
20/. Copper’s name originates from the Latin word ‘cyprium’, from the island called Cyprus. Copper was associated with the goddess names Aphrodite/Venus in Greek/Roman mythology.
21/. Copper has been used by humans for over 10000 years.
22/. The boiling point of copper is 3200 kelvin.
23/. Copper burns green
24/. Copper is one of the only metals to have a natural colour other than grey
25/. Copper is reddish brown in colour
26/. Copper is used in electrical wires because it is very ductile and a good conductor
27/. Copper may be the oldest elemental metal known to mankind
28/. Copper has 2 valencies
29/. Copper has 29 protons and 29 electrons!!!
I think this is a great project – just wish I had known about it sooner so I could have got my daughters school involved. However I will be passing this on to them in the hope that they get the blogging bug. As you can see I have a blog myself but so far I have not involved my kids (other than to write about them!)
Today in Year 5 we began the day by doing some lovely handwriting. We had to try hard to make our writing neat and join our letters together.
Then we read with Year 2. Each one of us has a buddy who we read week every Wednesday. We listen to them read, ask them questions and read to them. I find it quite interesting because some of the Year 2′s can read really well.
Next we completed a brain training exercise on the Nintendo Ds’. We tried to beat our personal best! Brain training helps our mental calculation skills and speed.
After that we started our maths lesson, looking at line graphs. We had to plot data to show how water is heated and the change in temperature over 10 minutes.
We hope that everyone enjoys the rest of their day!
Ilham and Miss J
Today at school I played on the DS’s, read with year 2′s, did handwriting and we did a line graph.
My favourite thing I did in school today was play on the DS’s and do handwriting
I guess you had a nice day in school
Today we started by doing some lovely handwriting and we read with our year 2 buddies
The second thing that we done this morning was maths line graph, then we played on DS’s(braintraining)
Now we are writing this.My favourite thing of the day was when we played on the ds and the maths.
the worst thing was valeriy being late.We hope you enjoy your day!
The first thing we did in the morning was hand writing then we went on ds.We then started to do line graphs in maths.We then started to learn about leap years and how they are every 4 years.
One of our teachers just came through our door and said that a women could only propose to men on the leap year.
NICE
Today in year5 we began the day by doing some joined up handwriting.After handwriting we did some paired reading with the year 2. Later on we did some brain training games on the Ds’.After that we did maths, we had to do line graphs.
We hope you enjoyed your leap year today!
Fartun and Jireh
What is ds?
Today in year 5 to start the day we have been doing handwriting and then we done the register.After we went to read with year 2 (Right downstairs) after we went up to play the DS then we done some graph and linegraphs.
1×3=3 2×3=6 3×3=9 4×3=12 5×3=15 6×3=18 7×3=21 8×3=24 9×3=27 10×3=30 11×3=33 12×3=36 13×3=39 14×3=42 15×3=45 16×3=48 17×3=51 18×3=54 19×3=57 20×3=60 21×3=63 22×3=66 23×3=69 24×3=72 25×3=75 26×3=78 27×3=81 28×3=84 29×3=87
I just wonder what mathematical equation you were trying to promote.
I have 38 Moshi Monsters I give away 9 Moshi Monsters now I have 29 Moshi Monsters.
I have 45 teddy bears I give away 16 teddy bears how many do I have altogever?
I have 15 loly pops & my sister gives me 14 loly pops now I have 29 loly pops.
I have 30 pencels I broke one now I have 29 pencels.
I have 49 bunies I give away 20 bunies now I have 29 bunies.
I have 29 bouts I bourt 5 more boats now how many do I have left?
I have 10 googly eyes & I got 20 more g googly eyes I lost 1 how many do I have left?
I have 150 dummies I lost 121 how many do I have left?
I have 20 bottles I bye 9 more how many do have left?
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hey wuu2
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well febuary 29 th has beeeeeeeeeeen amzing
Our Wednesday by Norbridge Academy Class 3
Ella – We have had a lovely day and we did guitars.
Jace – This afternoon Class 3 was doing guitars and then after guitars we swapped over classes with Class 4 and started writing.
India – This afternoon we had guitars and we listened to this really long song and two people in our class called Reece and André started crying.
Kieran – Today in Class 3 we went on to this amazing Myths + Legends website.
Courtney – we used to do swimming on Thursdays.
Jamie – In the morning we did maths and then after break we did literacy.
Sophia – On Fridays in the afternoon we have computers.
Ryan – Today at dinnertime we got to choose our own pudding. Ice cream or jelly with biscuits.
Alysha – On Fridays we always do karate lessons.
Kordian – Today Class 3 play guitars.
Summer – Today after dinner break we did fantastic guitars. We have one guitar each and you can bring your own in.
Reece – This morning we did out writing journals.
Alea – this morning we did writing journals and I have got 3 stars.
André – this morning we did maths and it was hard because you had to write and write.
Hermione – I like my teachers.
Luke – I had a really good time playing guitars.
Happy February 29th from all of Norbridge Class 3!
you should keep up to date with the boring things i post
life has been very complicated but we have to keep going and try love life
We have had a lovely day today…..the children in Foundation 2 have been reading ‘The Gigantic Turnip’ story. We have also been exploring mud, paint and doing abit of gardening!
Today I did a maths booklet because it was quiz week.
Today, in Bankys Private School, Abuja, Nigeria, we discussed Leap Year and what it stands for.
Some of the pupils who are celebrating their first Leap Year as grown enough to understand what it stands for, are excited to be a part of it.
We discussed in Primary 3 & 4 classes how people who are born on February 29th will miss yearly birthday celebrations.
It was quite interesting!
Today is a very special day and everyone should celebrate a bit, I mean this day only comes around every four years and it will be 2016 when the next one comes around! I played guitar and had a piano lesson for I am very into music. Then I gave a lesson on english ( I am 11 years old) and had fun posting this blog! I hope that next year there will be a bank holiday so we can celebrate at home and not finding out boring things about maths that we all ready know! I am so happy today and I am really cosy because I am in my fluffy PJ´s now! I hope everyone has a epic day and happy leap year!!!
Tito, John, Sam, Maryland and Audu like to boast about international dates and events.
One day, their teacher asked them in class, “what is the similarity between Olympics games and Football World cup? He promised to give a beatiful d=school bag to whoever get it correcet. They all tried but none got it right. The teacher gave a hint that it has something to do with 29th February. Sam shouted, Öh dear, I forgot it was a leap year that comes once every 4 years like the Olympic games and the football world cup competition.Leap Year (Jibril P5 from Bankys Schl, Nigeria)
Tori Vega always forget things easily. She would forget to feed her dog, forget lunch, forget it was Saturday and wasn’t meant to go to school, so you can guess she was a bit of nuisance. One day, her friend, Angela visited her and told her that her tenth birthday was coming up on the 29th of February and that she was having a party. She also told her that Tori was to be the guest, she also warned Tori not to forget her birthday, Tori promised not to forget her birthday.
She woke up forgetting it was Angela’s birthday, though she wondered why people were making noise and exploding fireworks around 4pm in the evening. Angela came knocking at her door with tears in her eyes. Angela asked her for the reason of her absence during her party, Tori gave a long shriek saying “oh dear! I forgot it was leap year”. Tori lost a good and kind friend like Angela and missed the parade that they always had on leap years. After this incident Tori learnt to keep records and not forget.Toluwani P4 (Bankys Schl, Nig.)
Great project. Shame there aren’t more 29th Febs in a year!!