Leap Day 2016

What day is Leap Day?

• Feb. 28
• Feb. 29
• March 1
• Feb. 20

How often does Leap Day occur?

• every year
• every 2 years
• every 4 years
• every 100 years

How many days will there be in 2016?

• 365 days
• 300 days
• 400 days
• 366 days

Why do we have Leap Year?

• Because it's fun and the whole world does it.
• It is a tradition started in ancient Egypt.
• To celebrate that spring is near!
• So that our calendar matches up with the solar year.

True or False.  You can only have a Leap Year if the number of the year is divisible by 4.

• True
• False

The first people to think of Leap Year were from what country?

• Egypt
• America
• England
• China

Which 2 months were left out of the early Roman calendar?

• February and March
• March and April
• December and January
• January and February

Fill in the blank.  "30 days hath September, April, June and November, All the rest have 31. Save __________, she alone hath 28 days and a score Til leap year gives her one day more."

• January
• March
• February
• December

Our next leap year will be when?

• 2018
• 2020
• 2022
• 2021

The chances of being born on a Leap Day are:

• 1 out of 24
• 1 out of 99
• 1 out of 1,461
• 1 out of 1 million