{"id":6334,"date":"2020-06-23T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=6334"},"modified":"2020-06-23T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:05:29","slug":"summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2020\/06\/23\/summer-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, the June solstice occurs on Saturday, June 20, marking the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the <strong>summer solstice\u2014the longest day of the year<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Longest Day of the Year: The Solstice!\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SVzkVsWQBR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We have been learning about time. \u00a0The basic unit of <b>time<\/b> is the second. There are also minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.\u00a0 We divide up the year into four seasons: <strong>spring, summer, autumn, and winter<\/strong>. Each season lasts about 3 months with summer being the warmest season, winter being the coldest, and spring and autumn lying in between.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2020\/06\/seasons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6336\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2020\/06\/seasons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2020\/06\/seasons.jpg 320w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2020\/06\/seasons-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/files\/2020\/06\/seasons-135x75.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><br data-pw-in-article=\"true\" \/><br data-pw-in-article=\"true\" \/>The seasons have a lot of impact on what happens on the earth.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>spring<\/strong>, animals are born and plants come back to life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer<\/strong> is hot and is when kids are usually out of school and we take vacations to the beach. Often crops are harvested at the end of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>autumn<\/strong> the leaves change colors and fall off the trees and school starts again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winter<\/strong> is cold and it snows in many places. Some animals, like bears, hibernate in the winter while other animals, like birds, migrate to warmer climates.<\/p>\n<p>This year <strong>Summer<\/strong> began on Saturday, June 20.\u00a0 It is the day with the longest period of sunlight.\u00a0 We call this day the Summer Solstice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Summer, Everyone!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, the June solstice occurs on Saturday, June 20, marking the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the summer solstice\u2014the longest day of the year! We have been learning about time. \u00a0The basic unit of time<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2020\/06\/23\/summer-solstice\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}