Everyday+Edits


 * Please correctly write the paragraphs below in your binders.**


 * Mickey D's!!**

Ray Kroc was a traveling sales man. One of the businesses he sold to was a restaurant owned by two brothers Dick and Mac McDonald. Kroc liked what he saw he told the brothers they should open more restaurants. When the brothers asked who would run the new restaurants, Kroc said, Well, what about me.” Kroc opened his first McDonald’s in April 1955. Today their is more then 30,000 McDonald’s in more than 115 countrys.


 * Yankee Stadium...BOO!!!!!**

April 18 1923, was opening day for Yankee Stadium. On that day, 74,000 baseball fans watch a game between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. The new stadium was “christened” when Yankee slugger babe ruth knocked a game-winning homerun in to right flied. Yankee Stadium is offen called “The House That Ruth Built because Babes popularity made it famous. Yankee Stadium has earned the title “The Home of Champions”


 * April is National Poetry Month in the U.S.**

April is national poetry month. Its a time when kids’ can enjoy the fun of vurse. Children’s poet Jack Prelutsky remembers how one of his teachers made him feel that poetry was like liver. “I was told that it was good for me, but I wasnt convinced, Prelutsky said. Years later, he wrote some lines of poetry to go with drawings he maid of imaginary animals. Those lines of poetry become the first of his entertaining poems for children.


 * Modern Olympic Games**

In April 1896, the lite of the ancient Olympic Games was rekindled at the first modern olympics in Athens Greece. The tradition was restart by Baron Pierre de Coubertin of france. Athlete had not competed in an Olympics in 1500 years. Today they engage in summer and winter sports such as biking basketball and hockey. The ancient greeks could never have imagine sports such as those!


 * New Jersey: "The Garden State"**

Which state was home to the first organized game of baseball, the first drive-in movie theater and the first saltwater taffy! New Jersey claim all of those titles and more New Jerseys first inhabitants was Delaware indians. In about 1524, Giovanni de Verrazano claimed the area for the dutch. Today, New Jersey has more then 8 million residents and it have two international airports. Each April 17th in the state is celebrate as New Jersey Day.


 * The Big Wind**

On April 12, 1934, a big wind blue in New Hampshire? At 231 miles per hour, it was the strongest wind ever measured on earth’s surface the wind were recorded during the morning hours at a weather observatory atop Mount Washington. That observatory records hurricane-force winds more then 100 days each year. Mount Washington, what is in the clouds about 60 percent of the time, is called the “Home of the Worlds Worst Weather.


 * Madeline**

In an old house in Paris that was cover with vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.” Thats the opening line of Madeline, a popular childrens book. Ludwig Bemelmans, the books’ author was born on April 27, 1898. He named Madeline after his wife, but it was his young daughter who inspired many of Madeline’s storys. Bemelmans’ second book, //Madelines Rescue,// earn him a Caldecott medal.


 * Surrender at Appomattox**

In a meating in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E Lee, leader of the Confederate forces, surrendered to general Ulysses S. Grant, who lead the Union troops. That surrender happen on April 9, 1865 Grant created the terms of the surrender, which allow the Confederate soldiers to keep their horses and return to there homes. It is beleived that 500,000 men lost their live's during the Civil War.


 * The Kentucky Derby**

In 1875, a croud of 10000 gathered to watch the first horse races at Churchill Downs in Louisville Kentucky. They saw a 3-year-old colt named aristides win the race. That race became part of what are now an annual tradition for horse lover's -- the Kentucky Derby. Held on the first Saturday in may, the Derby is known as the first jewel in horse racings Triple Crown the other two races in that "crown" are the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.