Did you know... Archive

This year’s 1st through 5th graders more than met the Summer Reading Challenge! When the final count came in, we found that our students had read a combined 312,000 minutes this summer. As a special treat, the entire elementary campus dropped everything and read on Monday, October 29. Students and teachers happily munched popcorn and read for 30 minutes. Our 4th graders announced that we read a combined 8,340 minutes on that day.

The school is saving approximately 20,000 pieces of paper by converting the Tapscott enrichment class flyers from paper to flyers on the web!

A piece of paper can not be folded in half more than seven times.

US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds at lift off?

SF-LA Merge
The San Andreas fault, which runs north-south, is slipping at a rate of about 2 inches (5 centimeters) per year, causing Los Angeles to move towards San Francisco. Scientists forecast LA will be a suburb of the San Francisco in about 15 million years!

The first day of spring falls on Sunday, March 20, this year. Some years it falls on March 21. This day is also known as the vernal equinox and is the exact day that separates winter from spring. Equinox is a Latin word which means "equal night." This is the time of year when the day and night are of equal length. There are two equinoxes a year. Can you guess what the second one is?