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Today is Leap Day!
Grades
3 - 7
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Calendar Activity
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Holiday & School Celebration
Today is Leap Day!
Our solar year is 365.24219 days. Since our calendar does not deal in partial days, every four years, we add an additional day to February.
Celebrate Kate DiCamillo's birthday today.
Grades
3 - 6
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Celebrate Kate DiCamillo's birthday today.
After examining the characters in one of DiCamillo's stories, students write original short stories featuring animals as central characters.
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Grades
7 - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Author & Text
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
Students do a Bradbury author study and then create flyers to advertise their favorite story using the ReadWriteThink Printing Press.

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