Presidents Day Facts
- Presidents Day is celebrated on the third Monday of February. According to History.com, when the holiday was first implemented in the 1800s, it was named “Washington’s Birthday” and was celebrated on Feb. 22 to commemorate first President George Washington’s birth date.
- In 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which moved a number of federal holidays to Mondays — including Washington’s Birthday — so now the Continue reading
G3 – Show Me What You Know
It’s a long weekend, things happen, papers get lost. Fear not, I posted a pdf of Thursday’s worksheet right here for you. Just click and print. As long as you are taking the time to read this, let me remind you that this assignmnet is asking for examples from your life – not examples from the book.
Zzzzzz…
Kids’ Lack of Sleep: Nothing New About Blaming It on Modern Life
By Salynn Boyles WebMD Health NewsIt is a common complaint of our modern age that kids and teens don’t get enough sleep.
Video games, TV, social media, and our increasingly tech-centric lives are often blamed, but a new study shows that long before Facebook or PlayStation 3, kids were sleeping less than experts said they should.
When researchers in Australia reviewed sleep recommendations and actual sleep times among children over the past century, they found that kids consistently slept about 37 minutes less than recommended at the time.
Each time, new technological marvels — be it the light bulb in the early 1900s, TV in the 1950s, or computer gaming systems and social networking today — were blamed for declining sleep times.
“The message that children don’t get enough sleep has been Continue reading