PM: July 10, 2019
Fun fact for the day: Mosquitoes are attracted by smelly feet… gross. In fact, they are drawn to lactic acid (in sweat) and carbon dioxide, which is what we breathe out. And they are more active during full moons. But…
AM: July 10, 2019
Did you know the Ancient Egyptians worshipped many gods, kind of like the Greeks and Romans did? They had the main ones, like the sun god, Ra, but lots of more specific ones. A curious one is Bes–he’s a dwarf…
AM: July 9, 2019
Today is National Sugar Cookie Day: According to this website, cookies are traced back to the 7th century in the Middle East, and sugar cookies more like we know them started showing up in Europe and America in the 1700’s.…
PM: July 8, 2019
Fun fact for the day: In the last 5 minutes, the Earth travelled more than 5,000 miles. Could you feel it? Of course not, but it’s crazy to think about how much we move through space each day. Think about…
AM: July 8, 2019
You’ll have to ask your parents about this, but imagine a world without cell phones. Imagine a world without Siri or Alexa. Not that long ago, if you needed information, you had to look it up…at home–not wherever you were…
AM: July 7, 2019
During this past week, all these events happened around the world: In Japan, heavy rains (1 meter in a week) caused a million people to leave their homes due to flooding and landslide threats California had it’s biggest earthquake (7.1)…
PM: July 6, 2019
Sometimes when you read the Bible, it doesn’t make much sense… you maybe read the devotion, the verse and later you’re like “umm…okay???”. It’s okay if it doesn’t always make sense–nobody knows everything about God and his word, but we…
AM: July 6, 2019
This may seem weird, but in Europe, they think that cars aren’t noisy enough, so they’re making them louder… It’s true though– electric cars, since they’re electric, they don’t make as much noise, so there have been more accidents with…
PM: July 5, 2019
Fun fact for today: The company Amazon was founded on this day in 1994. Fun fact 2: Currently the founder, Jeff Bezos is worth 158.8 BILLION dollars… Fun fact 3: He almost named the company Cadabra (like abra cadabra) but…
PM: July 4, 2019
Happy Birthday America! God Bless America, Land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her through the night with a light from above. God Bless America It’s kind of weird how so many of our songs and documents mention…