Author: Lisa Mungovan

The 20 24 Paris Olympics, will feature a surprising new event. Get ready to watch breakdancing! After learning that breaking has over 1,000,000 participants, and 50,000,000 people watched the World Breakdancing Finals in Mumbai, the Olympic Programme Commission decided to add the athletic sport. Do you have the top rocks and power moves, of a future Olympian?

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Last week, the National Zoo announced that its new giant panda cub, Xiao Qi Ji, had reached a big milestone. He took his first wobbly steps, on Thanksgiving Day. You can watch pandas in real time on the zoo’s pandacam, at NationalZoo.s i.edu, or watch older videos, and see how he’s grown.

Have you ever heard of Emmett Kelly? Born in 1898, he was one of the first sad-faced clowns, named Weary Willie. Celebrate Weary Willie Day, by painting your face like a clown, superhero, or animal. It’s also the International Day of Veterinary Medicine. A gigantic thank you, to the vets who care for our pets!

It’s World Techno Day! Techno is electronic dance music with a strong beat. Get some glow sticks and party lights, turn up the music, and have a techno dance party! It’s also Pastry Day, so eat some cakes and pies. After all, you need to keep up your energy, to continue dancing all day!

Hillside Australia, was hit by a hairy panic. People became trapped in their homes, when the town got covered in tumbleweeds! The dry brush rolled in on 68 mile-per-hour wind gusts, piling as high as 14 feet. The fronts of some houses were completely covered by dried grass and tumbleweeds. Cleanup could take a while!

The Ruko Community Wildlife Conservancy, in Kenya, is tackling a big problem. Endangered Rothschild’s giraffes, are trapped on an island, while the surrounding lake rises. Flooding is causing the land area to shrink, and the water is full of crocodiles. Park rangers built a giraffe-raft, to ferry the giraffes to the mainland, 1 by 1.

Humans are pretty smart. They’ve come up with lots of medicines to treat illnesses, and vaccines to prevent them. But other animals also use preventive medicine. Russet sparrows in China, build their nests with wormwood leaves, because they keep parasites away, and help their babies grow bigger. Do you think there are sparrow scientists?

COVID-19 is still spreading rapidly, especially as people spend more time indoors. Opening a window can help. Don’t forget to wash your hands often, and always use a mask in public. You can easily make your own, or order KN95 masks online, for more protection. Stand far away from people, so everyone stays safe!

Today is Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day. If you could visit any period in time, would you go to the past, or the future? Pretend you went to prehistoric times, and eat like a caveman! But before you go time traveling, celebrate Brownie Day, just in case brownies weren’t invented yet.

J R R Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit. The home where the author created his famous stories, is up for sale, in Oxford England. Actors from the films, who played characters like Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf, are raising money to buy the house, for fans to enjoy forever.