{"id":315,"date":"2010-10-01T21:58:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T01:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/phs\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-10-01T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T01:58:15","slug":"october-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/phs\/2010\/10\/01\/october-news\/","title":{"rendered":"October News!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 11- Columbus Day<\/strong> The day commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the \u201cNew World.\u201d <strong>October 15<\/strong><strong> -National Pizza Month <\/strong>Pizza is easy and fun to make and can be a nutritious meal for the children and is easy to make at home.\u00a0 You will need a ready-made pizza dough or a ready-made crust, shredded mozzarella cheese and a jar of pizza sauce. Add your favorite toppings \u2013 i.e. mushrooms, chicken, onions, or brocoli .\u00a0 First the dough or crust goes on a cookie sheet or pizza pan. Then spread the sauce, add the other toppings, and last of all, sprinkle the cheese. Bake as directed for the crust. Be careful, and keep the children away from the oven as the oven must be very hot to make a nice crusty pizza. <strong>October 17<\/strong><strong>&#8211; National <a id=\"GVLINK_1_0_0\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/phs\/wp-admin\/#\">Stamp Collecting<\/a> Month<\/strong> \u2013Collecting stamps is a fun and easy introduction to geography, history, art and nature. Help your children start a stamp collection by sharing stamps from your letters from home. Ask your au pair friends for stamps from their countries. <strong>October 24<\/strong><strong> \u2013 United Nations Day<\/strong> \u2013 This is the anniversary of the creation of the United Nations in 1947, which is committed to peace and development, based on the principles of justice, human dignity and the well-being of all people. Teach your children something about your country today \u2013 a song, a story, game, a new food or a national tradition. <strong>October 31-Halloween<\/strong> This is the day children dress up in <a id=\"GVLINK_2_0_1\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/phs\/wp-admin\/#\">costumes<\/a> and, in many communities, go door-to-door to ask for candy. Safety on Halloween is extremely important \u2013 don\u2019t take our eyes off the children and don\u2019t let them eat unwrapped candy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Major League Baseball<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Baseball is called the \u201cNational Pastime\u201d of the United States because it is so popular. There are thirty teams spread across the country, and many people have their own favorite \u201chome team.\u201d The game is played by two teams. When one team is in the field, the other team takes turns at bat. A baseball player first bats at the ball and then runs around the bases in an effort to score. Points, called \u201cruns,\u201d are scored when a player on the batting team touches all the bases (including home plate) without being tagged or put \u201cout\u201d by a player on the fielding team. The team scoring the greater number of runs in nine \u201cinnings\u201d wins the game. Each inning is divided into two halves: top and bottom. Both teams are allowed three outs per half inning. Each team is part of a league. There are two leagues, the American League and the National League. Each team tries to <a id=\"GVLINK_3_0_2\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/phs\/wp-admin\/#\">win<\/a> the most games in their league. The teams that win each league championship will play each other in the \u201cWorld Series.\u201d <strong>* note* date may change October 27<\/strong><strong> \u2013 Baseball World Series<\/strong> \u2013 In <a title=\"Baseball\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baseball\">baseball<\/a>, the World Series is the championship games of <a title=\"Major League Baseball\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_League_Baseball\">Major League Baseball<\/a> in <a title=\"North America\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_America\">North America<\/a>, played in <a title=\"October\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/October\">October<\/a> after the end of the regular season between the pennant winners of the American and\u00a0 <a title=\"National League\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_League\">National League<\/a>s. The Series winner is determined through a <a title=\"Best-of-seven playoff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Best-of-seven_playoff\">best-of-seven playoff<\/a>, meaning that the first team to win four games wins the series. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903.\u00a0 It is played at the baseball stadiums of the two teams in the series.\u00a0 Baseball is so popular that it is sometimes called the \u201cnational pastime.\u201d The word \u201cballgame\u201d in the United States almost always refers to a game of baseball, and \u201cballpark\u201d to a <a title=\"Baseball field\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baseball_field\">baseball field<\/a>.\u00a0 The rules of baseball can be found here http:\/\/aupairinamerica.com\/resources\/life_in_the_us\/baseball.asp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 11- Columbus Day The day commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the \u201cNew World.\u201d October 15 -National Pizza Month Pizza is easy and fun to make and can be a nutritious meal for the children and is easy to make at home.\u00a0 You will need a ready-made pizza dough or a ready-made crust,  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/phs\/2010\/10\/01\/october-news\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,203,93,117,119],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-au-pairs","tag-child-care","tag-host-families","tag-nanny","tag-october"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>October News!! 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