Author: Lisa Mungovan

Look up in the sky this week, and you’ll have a good chance of spotting a shooting star. As Earth passes through a comet’s debris field, bits of rock burn up in the atmosphere, causing meteor showers. The Lyrid meteor showers will be clearest, looking east in a pre-dawn sky.

Sitting in one place all day, is bad for your body, but exercise can make up for it. After a full day of sitting, you’ll need at least 30-40 minutes of building up a sweat, to counteract it. Balance your video-game marathons with workouts. For Exercise Day, start with some jumping jacks, right now!

Imagine a fearsome velociraptor, speeding through a forest. Scientists believe dinosaurs wagged their long tails from side to side when they ran, to keep their balance. Velociraptors also had feathers, and a long claw on each foot. For Velociraptor Awareness Day, learn more about these prehistoric creatures, in case you ever go back 80,000,000 years.

Today is Pet Owners Independence Day. On this wacky holiday, people are supposed to switch places with their pets. You can lay around and get fed, while your pet goes to work or school, and scoops up your poop. Also, eat animal crackers, for Animal Crackers Day. Maybe your pets should eat people crackers!

Today is Piñata Day. The colorful papier-mâché creations are usually filled with candy, that pours out when it’s hit with a stick. It’s also Marbles Day, but don’t confuse people by putting them in a piñata! You could play a game of marbles with gumballs though, or learn to juggle marbles for Jugglers Day.

Bats are amazing creatures. One colony of Mexican Free-Tailed bats eats up to 30,000 pounds of insects each night, including lots of annoying mosquitoes! Other types of bats eat fruit, like the giant golden-crowned flying fox. It has a wingspan of 5 1/2 feet! Bats are also pollinators, like bees and butterflies. Happy International Bat Appreciation Day!

Have you ever seen a crawdad? How about a crayfish? Mudbug, ditchbug, mountain lobster, and yabby, are some other names for crawfish. Whatever you call them, go to a creek for Crawfish Day, and see if you can find some along the banks. They live in the water, and look like tiny lobsters!

Cheeseballs taste like cheese.

But kickballs don’t taste like kick.

Blah blah blah blah blah.

How did you like my haiku poem? Write your own 3-line poem, using 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables, for Haiku Poetry Day. Today is also Blah Blah Blah Day, Cheeseball Day, and Kickball Day. Blab on and on about nothing!

The world record for most high fives in 24 hours, is 15,338. Can you break the record, for High Five Day? Just reach up and clap someone’s hand over your heads. Wash your hands after high-fiving anyone, to avoid spreading germs. Celebrate everything with everyone, with a big high five!

I’ve gotta cupcake for sale here who’ll give me 1 dollar 1-dollar 1 dollar 1 here now gimme 2 2 2 dollars-two SOLD! For $2! It’s Auctioneers Day! Talk like an auctioneer and sell something to your friends. I know your fast-talking auctioneer voice will be better than mine, ha ha.