Yesterday was sweet, easy, & slow. Boo has been looking a bit on the pale side. Picks at her food and gets tired faster than normal. So we rested. We played with subtraction & money. We played Go Fish. We played Chutes & Ladders. We read a lot. We flipped through the calender and talked about leap day:
28 Days Has February
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28 days has February
A very light load for one month to carry
The other months have 2 and 3 more
Thirty and thirty-one being their big score
In Leap Years the days they do vary
Making 29 days in February
A very light load for one month to carry
The other months have 2 and 3 more
Thirty and thirty-one being their big score
In Leap Years the days they do vary
Making 29 days in February
A leap year is a year containing one additional day to keep the calendar year in sync with the seasonal year. Because (through a lot of complex math) seasons do not repeat in a whole number of days, a calendar with the same number of days in each year would drift over time. Occasionally inserting an additional day can correct the drift. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year. A leap year consists of 366 and a common year has 365.
As for the leap part of adding a day, in a common year a calendar date that falls on, say a Friday one year will fall on a Saturday the next, & Sunday the next but on a leap year you leap over the expected day of the week the date will fall on.
I hope Boo feels better soon!
ReplyDeleteTina, Thank you. We do too! It is hard to take Boo down. This wilting is perplexing...too busy? not enough good food? a bug? we shall see & we will let you know.
DeleteSophie too, Misty.
ReplyDeleteShe went home after half a day of school and slept.
Not up to par...but not totally sick.
I've been feeling it too.
It's past now though.
I like that I can sit on the couch and fold laundry without guilt on days like that.