English: equinoxFrench:  équinoxeSpanish: equinoccioGerman:  TagundnachtgleicheItalian: equinozioArabic:  alaietidal الاعتدالChinese: Chūnfēn 春分

Equinox(E-qui-nox. Sort of rhymes with see the fox.)When day and night are the same length. It happens two days each year, one in March and the other in September.On the fall equinox, Jenny and Albert went on a nature walk and helped their family build a campfire.

There are two days each year when day and night are the same length. One is in March and the other in September. These days are called equinoxes. (E-qui-nox-es. Sort of rhymes with see the foxes.)Equinoxes are the same in the upper half of the earth and the lower half (called hemispheres.) So days when […]

Literacy(LIT-er-uh-see)The ability to read and writeWhen a teacher came to LiLa’s village, the literacy there improved.Most of the villagers became literate.

Literacy is the ability to read and write. Not everyone can do that. In fact, more than 700 million people in the world can’t read and write. That’s more people than live in Canada, the United States, and Mexico combined!International Literacy Day, which is on September 8 each year, is a day for people who […]

Apple Peanut Butter Pitas Makes 2 Looking for a new sandwich for lunch or a snack- grab the pitas and peanut butter (or other nut butter) Mix it up and try other fruits! Ingredients: 1/4 cup peanut butter 1/8 teaspoon each: ground allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg 2 whole wheat pita pocket halves 1/2 medium apple, […]

English:    scrumptiousFrench:  délicieuxSpanish: de chuparse los dedosGerman:  leckerItalian: deliziosoArabic:  shahiun شهيChinese: Měiwèi de 美味的

scrumptious(scrump-shuss)Beautiful or delicious.Amy thought the chocolate cookies were scrumptious.(Scrumptious is a word from the early 1800s. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl added diddly to the middle of the word, creatingscrumdiddlyumptious.)

September 13th is Roald Dahl Day.You probably have read a book by Roald Dahl. Or seen a movie based on one of his books. Perhaps it was one of these: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, or Matilda.Or maybe it was The Gremlins; The Witches; or Danny, Champion of […]

English:     literacyFrench:   l’alphabétisationSpanish:  literaturaGerman:   AlphabetisierungItalian:  alfabetizzazioneArabic:   maerifat alqira’at walkitaba معرفة القراءة والكتابةChinese:  Shìzì 识字