Category: Bulletins and Minutes

GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin DECEMBER 2 – 6, 2019 WORDS OF THE WEEK: December 7, 2019 NATIONAL PEARL HARBOR REMEMBRANCE DAY The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin NOVEMBER 11 – 15, 2019   WORDS OF THE WEEK:   VETERANS DAY November 11, 2019 (101st Veterans Day) Veterans Day is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans, that is, persons who have served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays including Armistice

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin NOVEMBER 4 – 8, 2019   WORDS OF THE WEEK: FALL BACK (Standard Time) Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, November 3, at 2 A.M., so prepare Saturday evening to “fall back” by setting your clocks back one hour. The first true proponent of Daylight Saving Time was an Englishman named William Willet. A London builder,

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin OCTOBER 28 – NOVEMBER 1, 2019   WORDS OF THE WEEK: HALLOWEEN!! HALLOWEEN: Halloween or Hallowe’en (a contraction of All Hallows‘ Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day.

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin OCTOBER 21 – 25, 2019   WORDS OF THE WEEK:  UNITED NATIONS DAY, OCTOBER 24, 2019 United Nations Day. United Nations Day marks the anniversary of the United Nations Charter coming into force in 1945 and celebrates the work of this organization. United Nations Day annually falls on October 24.  World Development Information Day. The United

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  GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin OCTOBER 7 – 11, 2019   WORDS OF THE WEEK:  LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE (October 17, 1989) It has been 30 years since the LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE (6.9 magnitude on the Richter Scale), hitting at 5:04pm, just 31 minutes before the start of Game #3 of the World Series at Candlestick Park between the Oakland A’s

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin OCTOBER 7 – 11, 2019   WORDS OF THE WEEK:  EARTHQUAKE  Did you feel the Earthquake?  In case anyone missed it,we had an EARTHQUAKE on Saturday morning at 8:41am, measuring 3.5 magnitude, and it was a BIG JOLT! The earthquake was centered about 4 ½ miles off the San Mateo County Coast, close to Colma.  The

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  GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 4,2019 WORDS OF THE WEEK: LET’S DO LUNCH AT SCHOOL: Some School Lunch History Kids used to go home for lunch until charities and women’s groups started selling hot lunches at schools. The first ones were a bargain.  In 1908 Manhattan students paid three cents for pea soup or rice pudding

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin SEPTEMBER 23 – 27, 2019   WORD OF THE WEEK:     FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN: Monday, September 23, 2019 Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September or March, when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and

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