Category: Kids News

This is International Dark Sky Week, so turn your eyes to the stars. There’s so much light pollution, that it’s hard to find dark skies anymore. You can help by turning off outdoor lights, or using shields to project the light downward. You’ll see more stars, and make bats happy too!

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!

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!

Cheeseballs taste like cheese.

But kickballs don’t taste like kick.

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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!

An emu named MeeMoo, escaped from its home in Tennessee last week. The big Australian bird led police on a chase for 20 miles, hitting a top speed of 40 miles-per-hour. They finally surrounded MeeMoo, and returned the flightless bird to its home, where it promptly escaped again. Apparently, MeeMoo likes to explore!

Beatriz Flamini is a Spanish mountaineer, who wanted to learn about the effects of solitude. She spent 500 days alone, in an underground cave. Scientists monitored her remotely, as she spent her time reading books, knitting, drawing, writing, and exercising. She lost track of time, thinking only 170 days had passed, instead of 500.

Elephants are the largest land mammals in the world. Their skin is an inch thick, they can weigh over 12,000 pounds, and they eat 300-600 pounds of food a day, with around 220 pounds coming back out as poop. But elephants are hunted illegally for their tusks, and losing habitat. Learn more, for Save The Elephant Day.

Today is Day Of The Mushroom. There are more than 10,000 kinds of mushrooms, but only around 600 are edible. If you see a mushroom in your yard, don’t eat it. It might be poisonous! Instead, buy mushrooms at the store, for your fungi feast. Save the wild mushrooms, for your photo album.

For people who work from home, it will be easy to celebrate Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day. For everyone else, be prepared to explain to everyone, that you didn’t simply forget to get dressed this morning! It’s also Orchid Day. There are over 21,000 varieties of these flowering plants. Happy orchid hunting!

10-year-old Tang Jinfan, has quick feet. He just set a world record for juggling a soccer ball with alternating feet, the most times in 1 hour. He kept the ball going for 8,147 touches. He hopes to play professional soccer someday, and play for China’s national team in the World Cup.