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What do you like to collect? You might save interesting rocks, Pokemon cards, Barbie dolls, or Lego sets. You’ve already learned the first step, for Savings Day! Decorate a can or box if you don’t already have a piggy bank, then start collecting spare change. Count it every month, and watch your savings grow!
It’s Old Farmer’s Day, and a perfect way to celebrate is to find a local farm and pick a pumpkin! Do you have a vegetable garden? You’re a farmer too! It’s also Moment of Frustration Scream Day. How do you cope when you’re frustrated? Sometimes a good scream, can let off steam.
A day off from school or work this holiday, traditionally celebrated Columbus Day. More recently, the holiday has shifted to Native American Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Columbus came to a land already inhabited by 50,000,000 people, and treated them badly. The people that were already living there, are the ones we honor today.
If you were at the New York Comic con last Thursday, you may have noticed an awful lot of Spider-Man fans. They were actually attempting a world record, for the largest gathering of people dressed as Spider-Man. Sadly, they fell just short of enough participants to break the current record of 685.
The Sea Life Aquarium in Minnesota, had some pretty cute visitors last week. A rescue group called The Bitty Kitty Brigade, took a dozen orphaned kittens on a field trip, to see all the fish. The annual excursion gives the kittens enrichment and the chance to socialize, getting them ready for adoption.
Birds are migrating south, to find warmer temperatures. There are so many birds, that they show up on weather radar. 159 doppler radars across the United States provide data that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology analyzes, and publishes results at birdcast.info. Sometimes more than a billion birds are migrating, on a single night!
Nanoplastics, are everywhere. The teeny-tiny bits of plastic are too small to pick up, blow through the air, and flow through nets in the ocean. Scientists in China, have developed a sponge made of starch and gelatin, that can trap the microscopic particles. The sponges could even trap nanoplastics from clothes, in washing machines.
Girls get ready, to celebrate International Day Of The Girl Child. Being a girl is awesome! Wave to other girls and tell them they’re great! The United Nations created the Day of Girls, to highlight the injustices females face around the world. This year’s theme is, “End child marriage and invest in girls’ rights!.”
Today is Save The Vaquita Day. The vaquita is a small type of porpoise, nicknamed the panda of the sea because of black patches around its eyes. There are only about 10 of the marine mammals left, due to getting trapped in gillnets laid by fishermen. They live in the Gulf of California.
Are you aware, that not all penguins live where it’s cold? Now you know, for International African Penguin Awareness Day. The Cape or South African penguin, lives in Africa. They lay their eggs in burrows, to protect them from the heat. The holes are also handy, for hiding from leopards!