Summer

Make the most of your summer by doing some fun outside activities such as:

• Race the sun by trying to eat a Popsicle before it melts
• Stay up late and watch the stars come out
• Have a water balloon toss
• Turn a large cardboard box into a boat and pretend your are on a fishing boat, pirate ship or yacht.
• Go to the park 
• Be outside and use your imagination!

Where did the phrase "Dog days of summer" come from?
It came from 2,500 years ago after the Dog Star, Sirius, visible in the Northern Hemisphere by mid July. The ancient Greeks believed its light caused temperatures to soar. Sirius does burn almost twice as hotly as our sun, but its too far away  to have any effect on the earth's climate.