Author: Lisa Mungovan

A man in British Columbia Canada wanted to mark his 80th birthday, with an extra-special cake. Ted Martindale started baking 430 individual cakes a month ago, to assemble into the world’s biggest carrot cake! The final cake, which contained 1,760 pounds of carrots, measured 17 feet by 17 feet, and weighed 6,044 pounds.

Psst. Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day, so have you planned any pranks? Be on the lookout, for salsa-filled donuts, caramel-covered onions, and spinach-enhanced brownies. Can you trick your siblings into believing it snowed, or set all the clocks forward an hour? Always be sure your jokes are harmless and in good fun!

Doing homework on a computer, makes you value backing up your files. Maybe you wrote an essay that didn’t save, or you lost the connection before your homework finished submitting. You could’ve also experienced, losing your phone full of photos. Today, on World Backup Day, save all your digital stuff, just in case.

Yay and hooray, it’s Tater Day! Have some baked potatoes and hash browns and potato dumplings and French fries and potato chips and home fries and sweet potatoes and tater tots and mashed potatoes! Then draw some spuds and color them in with crayons, for Crayon Day. Purple potatoes will be beautiful!

On this day in 1889, the Eiffel Tower, in Paris France, was completed. Celebrate Eiffel Tower Day, by eating French food, or building your own tower out of blocks or pillows. It’s also Bunsen Burner Day. It wouldn’t be a proper laboratory, without a vial of liquid, bubbling over the flame of a Bunsen burner!

Hey 4th graders, would you like to visit a National Park over spring break? The year you’re in 4th grade in the United States, you can get into any National Park for free! Students can print a free annual pass, good for everyone in the car, at Every-Kid-Outdoors.gov. Where will you go first?

Today is Virtual Vacation Day. You can visit a museum or national park online, using Google’s Arts and Culture site. If you have a virtual reality headset, you can stroll through other cities, or even explore another planet. No computer? No problem. Find a sandbox, and pretend you’re at the beach!

It’s feeling like spring, so go outside. It’s Take A Walk In The Park Day! Count how many different birds you hear, and see what flowers are starting to bloom. It’s also Pencil Day, so bring along pencils and paper, and make a list, or sketch a picture. Yay for erasable writing!

The Palm Beach Zoo in Florida, has welcomed a trio of capybara pups. The healthy triplets were born to parents Iyari and Zeus. Capybaras, native to South America, are the largest rodents in the world. They are known to be friendly, and are often spotted getting along with other animal species.

March Madness is all about basketball, and some people like to use brackets and charts to predict which team will win. March Napness, however, tracks the hibernation of bears. Four Paws animal sanctuaries started their bracket, with 22 brown bears hibernating in Europe. The last bear sleeping will be the March Napness winner.