AM: October 21, 2019
On this day in 1918, a woman named Margaret Owen set a new world record for typing –170 wpm (words per minute) for 1 min–and that’s on an old-school one like the picture! That sounds impressive, but more recently people…
AM: September 22, 2019
Today is Hobbit Day–you may not understand what a hobbit is, but one of classic books series is called The Lord of the Rings, written by JRR Tolkien, where the term hobbit is from. At the beginning of the story,…
PM: September 15, 2019
Today was International Dot Day. Do you know what that is? Have you ever read the book “The Dot”, about a girl who says she can’t draw? If you haven’t it’s a good one. Elementary teachers around the world created…
PM: June 23, 2019
A couple of weeks ago a 10-year old girl named Selah climbed El Capitan in Yosemite. She’s the youngest person to ever do it. It’s a 3000 ft climb straight up the face of a rock. It took her and…
