Онлайн-урок №6 "This fascinating world. Leisure, free time. Preposition"

 Cool and Weird facts about our everyday lives that everyone should know. Check out this collection of 25 Cool and Weird Fun Facts. Do you have any other fun facts you would like to add?

1. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year.
2. The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
3. The average person spends 2 weeks of his lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green.
4. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick.
5. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't added.
6. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
7. If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day.
8. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.
9. The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television. What are you doing?! Get out and spend that year and a half doing something productive!
10. Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath, making her squat, and sneezing.
11. There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple!
12. In October 1999 an Iceberg the size of London broke free from the Antarctic ice shelf.
13. DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.
14. The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
15. The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.
16. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
17. The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.
18. An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
19. The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.
20. The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year.
21. Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day, two hours more than the sloth.
22. The deepest part of any ocean in the world is the Mariana trench in the Pacific with a depth of 35,797 feet.
23. The largest meteorite craters in the world are in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and in Vredefort, South Africa.
24. To escape the Earth’s gravity a rocket needs to travel at 7 miles a second.
25. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill an Olympic sized swimming pool.

 When it comes to children's overall development, leisure time activities are just as important as traditional education. Children learn through play, especially when they are very young, and are still developing crucial cognitive and motor skills, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Whether an activity is a structured activity like team sports or whether it is unstructured free play in the backyard, make sure your child has plenty of opportunities to engage in leisure activities on a regular basis.

   Sports
  Sports activities are usually a large part of leisure time for children. Typically, children join a youth sports team that interests them, like soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, flag football, or gymnastics. These sports activities not only teach kids a skill, they also teach kids how to work as a team toward a common goal. Your child does not have to join a sports team to become active in sports, because many recreational centers have spontaneous games that people play just for fun. You can also organize a group of your child's friends for backyard sports activities like kickball and T-ball.

  Arts and Crafts
  Arts and crafts are a favorite go-to leisure activity to keep young children busy indoors, especially on a rainy day. Many parents help their children work on a specific art project, or they give art materials to their children, and let the kids get as creative as they wish. According to early childhood expert Robert Schirrmacher, Ph.D., in an article titled, ''Child-Centered Art vs. Teacher-Directed Projects,'' the best approach is to guide children toward a specific direction, but let them decide what to do within those parameters. For example, you can give your child a theme, like Thanksgiving, and allow your child to create any type of artwork or craft related to the holiday. For an artistically inclined child, you can take him or her to a local kid’s art class at places like a pottery store, or to art classes that a recreation department or community center offers.

  Dance and Music
  When a child is inclined toward the performing arts, his or her parents will usually enroll her in a dance class, such as ballet, tap, jazz or hip-hop, or for music lessons for the clarinet, violin or piano. A child who starts a dance or music class at an early age and excels at it may wish to continue, as she gets older. She might join a competitive dance team or the school band. However, you should not invest in an expensive instrument or in an expensive dance class, if you are not certain of your child’s interest. Observe how your child reacts when she plays with toy instruments and listens to kiddie music to gauge how she might do with lessons.

  Unstructured Play
 Unstructured playtime is essential for a child’s development, and contributes to his cognitive, physical, social and emotional well-being, according to American Academy of Pediatrics. Make sure that your child's leisure time does not consist entirely of structured activities. Send him to the backyard for a couple of hours with a sibling or with friends -- and nothing else. You will be surprised at the imaginative games kids come up with on their own. Even when kids are stuck indoors, they will find plenty of opportunities for unstructured play, in which the kids have to come up with their own fun. Initiate a few ideas if your kids claim they are bored. A few dining chairs and an old sheet can become a secret fort. The couch cushions can be islands that protect them from hot lava on the floor.