This Weekend

What did you do this weekend?

Bikes

May is “National Bike Month.”  If you could create a bicycle path through your neighborhood or town, where would the path lead?  Include a description of the sites and sounds someone would see along your bike path.  You may also want to include a map of your path.

Instrument

Today  is “Buy-a-Musical Instrument Day.”  Do you play an instrument?  How long have you been playing?  Why did you decide to play this instrument?  If you don’t play an instrument, what instrument would you like to learn how to play?

I would learn how to play a violin because it was the best.

Red Cross

The Red Cross was founded today in 1881.  It's purpose is to help people.  When was a time you have helped people?
I used to help people from the time that I was in Elementary school.

Chocolate Chips

Today is National Chocolate Chip Day.

What are 4 desserts that have chocolate chips?

What is your favorite way to eat chocolate chips?

1.Regular
2.Kisses
3.Cookies
4.Super

Advice

What are three pieces of advice you would have for next year's sixth graders? 
1.Make them good behavior
2.Listen to teachers
3.Don`t bully

RESPECT

Who are 3 people you respect?  Why do you respect them?

1.Jesse Wu

2.Ming Jie Li

3.Micheal Yee

I like to respect them cause they were my friends.

Things learned

What are 5 things you have learned this year at Francisco Middle School?

1.Particpate

2.make friends

3.Paying attention

4.Not bullying

5.Get good tutors

Mother's Day

How are you going to celebrate Mother's Day?

What will you give  or do for your mom?

 I am going to have dinner with my family and say thank you for my mom,but only tonight.

Collecting Things

The first stamp collection was supposed to have have been started today.

Do you like to collect things.  If you do, what do you collect?  If not, what would you like to collect?

Do you know people who like to collect things?  What do they like to collect?

I would collect race cars because it was my favorite.

What are five things you know, or think you, about this place?
1.FMS
2.Being friendly
3.Saying hi to nice teachers that I never know.
4.Metting families that belongs to my household
5.Make good presents that I expect to see.

Friend

Write 5 sentences describing a friend of yours.  You do not have to say their name.
He was nice.He was also with me in 3 periods.He also rape me,usally.However,he was good at any subject.Those ones,is named William

 

Weather

What is your favorite type of weather?  What is your least favorite type of weather?  What do you like to do when it is your favorite weather?

For me, cloudy. My least favorite is the sun. I would like to stay home during my favorite weather.

Summary

Getting a grip—literally— can boost your memory, according to a new study. Here’s how: Clench your right fist before taking in new information that you want to remember. Then clench your left fist when you want to remember it later.  

This strange trick may work because clenching your hands activates the side of the brain that handles memory. For example, in right handed people, the left side of the brain is primarily responsible for storing information while the right side of the brain is responsible for recalling memory. (If you are left-handed, the opposite applies).

Putting It to the Test

To test this idea, researchers led by Ruth Propper of Montclair State University in New Jersey studied 50 right-handed college students. Most of them were women. They were given a list of 36 words to remember. They were also given a small pink ball to clench.

One group clenched the ball twice for 45 seconds each with their right hands before memorizing the words. Then they did the same with their left hands before writing down as many words as they could remember. Another group performed the same task but reversed the order of the fists they made. Two other groups used the same hand each time, one group using the left and the other, the right. A final group didn’t clench the ball at all but held it gently in both hands each time.

The group that started with the right hand performed the best on the memory test. In doing so, they activated the left side of their brains, which helps store memory, and then clenched their left hand, activating the right side of the brain as they recalled the information.  

“The findings suggest that some simple body movements— by temporarily changing the way the brain functions— can improve memory,” Propper said in a statement describing the results, which were published in the online science journal PLoS One.

Participants recalled an average of ten words if they clenched their right hand for storing information and their left hand for recalling information. People in the group that used the opposite clenching pattern recalled an average of six words.

If you’re preparing to make fists while studying for a test or practicing a speech, the researchers say more work is needed to figure out whether this technique would actually be useful. In the meantime, however, it probably couldn’t hurt. But you would have to remember which hand to use for which step in the process.

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