Friday, March 2, 2012

Leap Year


This year is a leap year. We usually have 365 days in the year but this year we have 366 days.It takes the earth about 365 days and 6 hours to travel around the sun. 6 is a quarter of 24 so scienetists decided to take the quarters of four years and make a new day. We have this year every 4 years. On that special day people siad that women are allowed to ask men to marry them. I think that women should be allowed to ask men to marry them whenever they want. The extra day is put onto February so there would be 29 days in February. Every four years the Olympics are on too. If someone is born on February they would have their birthday on the 28th of February or on the 1st of March.



Here is a song that we were singing in school today to celebrate Leap Day. We were playing it on the tin-whistle as well.


Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows 
Fair is the lily of the valley 
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
But my love is fairer than any. 
Come over the hills, my bonnie Irish lass 
Come over the hills to your darling 
You choose the rose, love, and I'll make the vow 
And I'll be your true love forever. 
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows 
Fair is the lily of the valley Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne 
But my love is fairer than any.
Twas down by Killarney's green woods that we strayed 
When the moon and the stars they were shining 
The moon shone its rays on her locks of golden hair 
And she swore she'd be my love forever
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows
Fair is the lily of the valley 
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne 
But my love is fairer than any. 
It's not for the parting that my sister pains
It's not for the grief of my mother 
Tis all for the loss of my bonny Irish lass
That my heart is breaking forever.
Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows 
Fair is the lily of the valley
Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne
But my love is fairer than any.

 The pictures that we got were from cartoonaday.com 

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