What? No Leap Day threads? Anybody doing anything special?

[Kerileanne99]

We are doing school on the trampoline, a special math challenge I found, a planet game/review, and then heading out to a trampoline place.

 

Anybody doing anything fun or silly?

[SKL]

Actually I'm doing extra work since the month-end crept up on me so fast.  :P  I am glad I got an extra day for the IRS deadline....

[Southern Ivy]

I forgot it was a leap year. :/ 
I should have my students do some kind of writing prompt or something, but yeah...probably not going to happen. Whoops!

[beaners]

We went over why we have leap years and my kids are requesting special foods. My 5 year old was extra cute because he kept mixing up the name. "Can we have bamboo shoots? Hopping is like shooting because things shoot up in the air and come down. So bamboo shoots for the hop day please?"

[Lady Florida.]

It's our oldest grandson's 1st/4th birthday today! 

 

His party was Saturday because if they held it today he wouldn't get many guests. He has preschool today, and he has a Leap Day Kid tee shirt to wear to school. Dss and ddil plan to have a little special party at home for him today. He's too young to get it so as far as he's concerned Saturday was his big day. His next real birthday will be a bigger deal. He'll be 8 on his 2nd birthday and will be a little able to understand it better.

Edited February 29, 2016 by Lady Florida

[HeWillSoar]

Well we were going to do our regular writing but now I think I'll have them research why we have leap year and write a short report. My kids will thank you.

[Kerileanne99]

I forgot it was a leap year. :/

I should have my students do some kind of writing prompt or something, but yeah...probably not going to happen. Whoops!

This is an older article but really cool...the writing prompt has them suggest their own solution to 'correcting' the calendar as well as the history of why we have a leap year:)

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/learning/2012/02/27/10-activities-for-learning-about-leap-year-and-other-calendar-oddities/?referer=

[Kerileanne99]

It's our oldest grandson's 1st/4th birthday today!

 

His party was Saturday because if they held it today he wouldn't get many guests. He has preschool today, and he has a Leap Day Kid tee shirt to wear to school. Dss and ddil plan to have a little special party at home for him today. He's too young to get it so as far as he's concerned Saturday was his big day. His next real birthday will be a bigger deal. He'll be 8 on his 2nd birthday and will be a little able to understand it better.

I just taught Alex how to identify a leap year with divisibility rules:) I am sure he will remember because of his bday, lol, but if the year is divisible by 4, it is a leap year. So by divisibility rules, if the last 2 digits are divisible by 4, it is a leap year: 2012, 2016, 2020, etc...

[Kerileanne99]

And if you have Brain Pop there is a pretty good video today:)

[umsami]

We just watched this and I learned some things, too.  I didn't know about the century rule or every 400 years thing. :) 

 

 

[Guest]

Not leap year related but I had new flooring put throughout the house on Tuesday

...which made me move every piece of furniture

....and while the furniture was moved, I figured I may as well paint the entire house while the old flooring was still there (didn't have to worry about drips)

.......and now I get to put it all back.

 

The broken foot is healing as well as possible.  The ligaments/muscles/whatever are still incredibly messed up and still swollen 4 weeks later.  But the two braces I had been given mess up my back and hips too much. And since they hurt worse than my foot, my foot is going bare.

[Lady Florida.]

We just watched this and I learned some things, too.  I didn't know about the century rule or every 400 years thing. :)

 

 

 

Thanks for sharing. I love listening to him.

[Kristie in Florida]

Just relaxing and praying that my baby doesn't want to be born today. I should be stocking my freezer.

[AddlepatedMonkeyMama]

Green, frog-shaped sugar cookies! We made them in 2012 and the kids asked to make them again. It's makes me sad to think that they'll be 14 and almost 16 years old the next time Leap Day comes around.

[Kerileanne99]

Green, frog-shaped sugar cookies! We made them in 2012 and the kids asked to make them again. It's makes me sad to think that they'll be 14 and almost 16 years old the next time Leap Day comes around.

Ah:)

I think I will dig out the cookie cutters too:)

[Kerileanne99]

I just pulled out the old plastic number line (1-20) and am going to give Alex a string of mental math problems (125 + 175 divided by 10 -27) and let her 'hop' to the answer. She is going to love it:)

[lovinmyboys]

Just relaxing and praying that my baby doesn't want to be born today. I should be stocking my freezer.

I had a baby born a few days after leap day in 2012. I spent February 29th with my legs crossed 😀.

[AnnE-girl]

It's DH's half birthday, so I made soda bread for him to bring as a birthday treat to his office (very small, close-knit office, birthday treats are common) and I'm making brownies for dessert. I didn't put anything together for school about why we have leap day, but maybe we'll research that this afternoon.

[Rosie_0801]

I didn't propose to anyone. I thought about it. There was a guy on the local FB who was inviting proposals as a charity fundraiser, but I was too shy.  :laugh:

[Lady Florida.]

Just relaxing and praying that my baby doesn't want to be born today. I should be stocking my freezer.

 

 

I had a baby born a few days after leap day in 2012. I spent February 29th with my legs crossed 😀.

 

It's not so terrible. Why the worry? It can be fun. See my quote from an earlier post below. We have a little guy celebrating today. Every four years you get an extra special birthday.

 

It's our oldest grandson's 1st/4th birthday today! 

 

 

 

Edited February 29, 2016 by Lady Florida

[Dmmetler]

DD's animal group is having a special leap day meeting-focused on "animals that don't fly, but try"-leaping lizards, flying snakes, jumping squid, jumping spiders, rabbits, frogs....

[Andani]

We watched a leap year video and went outside to measure our leaps.

[MrsMommy]

We're trying to make origami frogs.

 

It's not going well. :)

[lailasmum]

It's my son's birthday and we went to the Harry Potter studio tour in London so it's been a good day.

[Kerileanne99]

DD's animal group is having a special leap day meeting-focused on "animals that don't fly, but try"-leaping lizards, flying snakes, jumping squid, jumping spiders, rabbits, frogs....

We are headed out to buy duckweed to work on our pond for Leap Day this afternoon:)

[Joyofsixreboot]

I was going to take them to Skyzone ( get it, leaping) but they are sick so we made pancakes instead which has zero to do with Leap Day.

[Kerileanne99]

I was going to take them to Skyzone ( get it, leaping) but they are sick so we made pancakes instead which has zero to do with Leap Day.

You mean you made Leap Day lily pads for your little leapers:)

[mamiof5]

Just relaxing and praying that my baby doesn't want to be born today. I should be stocking my freezer.

Hope baby waits til tomorrow!! Our ds celebrated his 8th bday yesterday, he was born at 9pm on Feb 28th. He was cutting it close :p

[mamiof5]

Nah! Not a special day for us. We talk about it and why it happens, but that's about it.

[Liz CA]

I am thrilled to have an extra day before my assignments are due. :)

[Liz CA]

It's not so terrible. Why the worry? It can be fun. See my quote from an earlier post below. We have a little guy celebrating today. Every four years you get an extra special birthday.

 

I never thought much about being born on the 29th in a leap year until someone told me how it messes her up at places like the DMV where they evidently don't know how to deal with people who have birthdays only every 4 years.  :laugh:

 

[alisoncooks]

I made no special plans. Even worse, today is our 100th day (yes, we're behind) and I forgot to make plans for that, too.

 

Luckily, there was a special, super-fun event at the library, so we're doing that. And the weather is gorgeous, so maybe we'll go for a walk when it's over.

 

Good enough.

[Andani]

We also spent a few minutes writing out some questions we have about our next four years, meant to be read together next leap year. I hope we remember.

 

Examples:

 

Will I be able to lift 50 pounds?

Will I reach my weight loss goal?

Will I have a mustache?

[abacus2]

I filed my taxes today. Otherwise it was a regular day.

[GAPeachie]

My friend's son was born this morning!

[mamiof5]

My friend's son was born this morning!

Congrats to your friend! Praying for healthy baby and mom. I feel bad for him though, I've heard it's a pain to be born on Feb 29th :(