By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
FEB. 22, 2022 | Look at today’s date. It is 2-22-22. February 22, 2022. This is an unusual date and the numerically abbreviated date will never happen again. And not only that, it’ll be 11+ years before a similar date rolls around, 3-3-33. Here’s something special to start your day with!
One website, Lucky Little Learners, calls that date, since it comes on a Tuesday, “Two’s Day.” They even suggest some ideas for teachers to use on younger students:
- Hang big 2s from the ceiling and on the walls. (Students could guess how many are hidden around the room.)
- Set up a “store” where everything cost 2 or 22 cents.
- Have students decorate large paper twos OR have them transform the two into something else (disguise their 2).
Additionally, it suggests other activities:
- Skip Counting by 2s Maze.
- Two Syllable words partner game.
- Grammar lesson focusing on to, two and too.
These are good ideas for students to have a little fun with this special date.
For one group of people, the bright sunshiny weather of February is wonderful, and boy, do they enjoy it!
We’re talking about the warm-blooded convertible people, who putz around in automobiles with tops down during these bright days. They pay no attention to the temperature, unless it drops below the 40s. They enjoy the wind whipping around them, though some wear snug hats, scarves and jackets. They seem to feel as long as it is sunny, why not parade around with the top down and flaunt the weather?
Not us. As long as it stays below 70 degrees outside, we’ll keep our automobile heater on, particularly to warm our hands. Yep, we’re just plain cold-natured, and can’t help. My feet will be cold until at least June.
One new element in the convertible automobile line that makes it easier for the open-top crowd are these new vehicles with hard tops that, with the push of a button, tuck the hard top into the trunk. These replace the soft (or rag) top convertibles, which were much more difficult to adjust from closed to entirely open.
So you convertible people, enjoy your riding-around, which we’ve noticed, usually has you with a smile on your face, enjoying the weather. But somehow, I expect, you’ve still got your heater on to warm your feet.
Washington on Mount Rushmore/Unsplash.
Happy George Washington’s birthday to you. A friend sends along George Washington’s prayer for our country. It reads:
“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have the United State in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field, and finally that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do justice, to love mercy and demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion, and without an imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation. Amen.”
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