April
• April’s birthstone is the diamond.
• The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea.
• The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).
• April’s birthstone is the diamond.
• The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea.
• The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).
1. A Water Schedule: Keep track of how much you use each day. Challenge yourself and your family to use less by taking shorter showers, shutting water off when you brush.
2. A Conservation Checklist: Each time you use water:
3. Make a Reuse List: Think of ways you can reuse water such as bath water to water gardens or plants (they don’t mind a little soap) pledge to adopt some of them.
4. Be a Water Detective: Check leaks around your house and fix them asap
5. Start a Garden or Terrarium or Greenhouse – Learn about how important water is for life
6. Water Shape Book Have Cildren write a story or poem about water, or make a water list!
7. Water Field Trip: Visit an ocean, lake, aquarium or and see how many living creatures and plants there are that depend solely on water
World Water Day is an annual event celebrated on March 22. The day focuses attention on the importance of freshwater and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources
On World Water Day, people everywhere show that they care and that they have the power to make a difference. They get inspired by information and use it to take action and change things. This year many will focus on the power that water and jobs have to transform people’s lives. Nearly all jobs are related to water and those that ensure its safe delivery. But today, millions of people who work in water are often not recognized or even protected by basic labour rights.
In the Northern Hemisphere, spring begins with the equinox on the 20th March at 6:29 a.m. (EDT).
• Astronomically speaking, the equinox occurs when the Sun crosses the celestial equator on its way north along the ecliptic. This March equinox is also known as the vernal, or spring, equinox, and marks the start of the spring season.
-The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.
-The Swiss Family Robinson tree house in Disneyland has 300,000 fake leaves on it which are changed twice a year to reflect the seasons.
-Montreal is the largest French-speaking city in the Western Hemisphere.
-Although beavers live near rivers, streams, and lakes — they do not eat fish. Beavers eat only plants. They eat poplar trees, carrots, cattail, mushrooms, potatoes, berries, water plants, swamp wood, and fruit. Soft bark is the main food for a beaver.