Category: Kids News

A sea lion in California, got too far from the beach, and was spotted wandering around San Francisco. Police took the sea lion, nicknamed Irving, to be evaluated by vets at the Marine Mammal Center. They’ll release him back in the ocean, after making sure he’s okay.

Look up in the sky next 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.

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.

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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!

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 bold, prepare 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!

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!

Cotton-top tamarins are small monkeys weighing only 1 pound, with a crest of white fur on their heads. Native to Colombia and highly endangered, many zoos are helping the species survive with breeding programs. A set of twins was born last month, at the San Antonia Zoo. Both parents care for the young.