LEAP YEAR PROVIDES AN EXTRA DAY OF FUN.Byline: Compiled by Barbara Wood Barbara Wood (b. June 30, 1947 in Lancashire, England) is an American writer of historical -romance novels. Biography Barbara Wood was born June 30, 1947 in Lancashire, England. Her family moved to California where she grew up. On Leap Year leap year: see calendar. February 29th my grandpa will probably make me go surfing even thought I don't no how. I'll stand on the surfboard and float away. Then pretty soon I'll fall off and float to shore. - Danielle Morin, 10 Chatsworth Park School Chatsworth If I had an extra day I would go to my cousin's house. We would go to the beach and build anything. We would swim in the water. We would get shells. We would go to the movies. - Mark Leuterio, 7 Fullbright Avenue School Canoga Park On February 29th I'm going to celebrate two birthdays. One birthday is my Aunt Pauline. And one is my friend Olivia. I would go hiking. Because I love to go hiking on holidays. - Kelly Durban, 7 Granada Hills Baptist School Granada Hills I would go to the theaters. I would play with my nomad nomad (nō`măd'), one of a group of people without fixed habitation, especially pastoralists. (Some authorities prefer the terms "nonsedentary" or "migratory" rather than "nomadic" to describe mobile hunter-gatherers. . I would go get a computer game. I would go to Knott's Berry farm Knott's Berry Farm is a brand name of two separate entities: a theme park in Buena Park, California, and a manufacturer of food specialty products (primarily jams and preserves) based in Placentia, California. . I would help my dad fix the car. - Ruben Berumen, 7 Danube Avenue School Granada Hills With this years extra day I will celebrate all of the great things that happened to me during the year. I will have a ton of fun. I might go to some places that I went to during the year. I think that would be great. I would celebrate with my friends. We might go rollerblading or go to a skatepark. I think that would be totally cool. - Trevor Tallakson, 10 Thomas Jefferson School Thomas Jefferson School is a small coeducational boarding and day school located in Sunset Hills, Missouri, near St. Louis, and consistently rated among the United States' top boarding schools for academic standards and college matriculation. Burbank On February 29, Leap year. I will go do my chores and go to baseball and play my superintendo. - Jeffrey Hotz, 9 Knollwood School Granada Hills On my leap day, I'm going to celebrate my relative's's friends's birthday. She was born in Chicago on leap year 1968. We planned a surprise party for her. I'm very excited too. - Joyce Gu North Hollywood My friend was on born on leap-year. What she would do is every year that wasn't leap year she would celebrate her birthday on Feb. 28. Then, every four years when it is her real birthday she would have an extra big party to celebrate her birthday which only comes once every four years. - Lindsey Neuhoff, 11 Oakwood School Oakwood School is a K-12 coeducational independent day school, situated on two campuses approximately one mile apart, in North Hollywood, California. One campus is the elementary school, and the other is the secondary school. North Hollywood I will be in school on the 29th of February and anyways an·y·ways adv. Nonstandard In any case. Adv. 1. anyways - used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; "Anyhow, he is dead now"; "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet"; "I it is a normal day for me. No I wasn't born on the 29th of February and I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. anybody who is born on that day. I think it would be pretty cool having a party every 4 years. - Ana Trejo, 11 Oxnard Street School North Hollywood On my extra day I will have a party with my friends, and get D-J's from Power 106. I will serve them hamburgers and nacho chips and cherry Coca-Cola. We will go swimming and play Marco Polo Marco Polo: see Polo, Marco. . When they leave, I will give them a present: a special book. - Renee Tseytlin, 9 Pinecrest School Northridge If I have an eitra day I will do my homework. I will exercise by doing jump rope jump rope or skip rope Children's game in which players hold a rope (jump rope) at each end and twirl it in a circle, while one or more players jump over it each time it reaches its lowest point. , because it is healthy. - Rachaud Zicke, 10 Shirley Avenue School Reseda If my birthday was on a leap year I would celebrate my birth the day before, so I would have a birthday every year. - Vanesa Barba, 10 St. Ferdinand School San Fernando CAPTION(S): PHOTO Photo (1) Leah McCloskey, 7, of Welby Way Magnet School in Canoga Park would go hiking if she had Thursday off. (2) If she had been born on Feb. 29 - which comes along just once every four years - Kimberly Sanders, 8, of Vinedale Elementary School in Sun Valley would want to celebrate her birthday on March 1. (3) Anahit Abrahamian, 12, of Oxnard Street School in North Hollywood drew a leap year calendar. |
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