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Presidents' Day Facts For Kids

Feb 18, 2020
Hello, I'm glad to have you on this informative President's Day video for

kids

and adults and for your dog, your iguana, anything else, you might be interested in hearing this because this is what a strange holiday it is, you're about to learn why so many people don't realize it's a weird holiday, I mean let's be honest, you'll learn about it, okay, you'll impress your friends with the

facts

, buckle up because honestly, it's just weird, there's no another word to describe the first. What you're going to learn about Presidents' Day is that it's more complicated than you think.
presidents day facts for kids
There are several disagreements about this simple holiday. Did you know that people don't agree on what to call it? People don't agree on how to write it. people can't even agree on what is celebrated, okay, it's really strange, but let's start at the beginning. President's Day is an American holiday, it became a national holiday in 1879. The president then was Rutherford B Hayes and Rutherford B Hayes, you can see it here, handsome. guy funny hair nice guy cool great president right president rutherford b hayes wanted our first president george washington's birthday to be a federal holiday george washington's birthday was february 22 the holiday was often called washington's birthday instead of day of the president and was always celebrated on February 22.
presidents day facts for kids

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Here is a photo of a streetcar that was decorated for Washington's birthday. This is a photo from 1892, a long time ago, pretty simple, but then came the disagreements in 1968. Some people tried to change President's Day to the third Monday in February. They failed at least in First, three years later, President's Day was changed and it became the third Monday in February instead of always being February 22, so it was no longer always Washington's birthday. Then it got interesting, you see that people couldn't agree on who to celebrate. people thought, hey, we have to celebrate george washington, it's in honor of george washington's birthday, it was george washington day, so we should celebrate him, we should focus only on him, then there are other people who said that george washington's birthday abraham lincoln is also closed, we should celebrate that. george washington and abraham lincoln it's fair that they're both right, that's great, we should celebrate both

presidents

on president's day and then there were still other people who believed that we should celebrate george washington abraham lincoln and all the other

presidents

after all , it's called president's day and that's why we should celebrate all presidents, some people believe that and some people believe that all three are wrong and that we should focus on maybe three presidents or four presidents, the ideas are endless and there are multiple states they believe each of these different things and the government lets each state decide who they're going to celebrate President's Day and then people couldn't agree on what to call it correctly, so some people believe Washington's birthday and there are states that strictly call it washington's birthday there are some states and some people that think it should be called washington and lincoln's birthday and there are some people in some states that think it should be called president state with the apostrophe between the t and the s that kind of spelling means they're specifically celebrating George Washington alone and then other states put the apostrophe after the s like we've done in this video and they call it President's Day and it's spelled this way, okay, so whatever you call it, Whoever you celebrate, there are almost all things.
presidents day facts for kids
We are all on board with this holiday as many stores have big sales on President's Day, big sales on appliances, mattresses and furniture and all kinds of random things, wonderful things, big sales and because it is a holiday Federal, schools are closed on President's Day and Like other federal holidays, post offices are closed on President's Day. We can all agree with this holiday, but there is something else that unites us all on this holiday. All states celebrate George Washington. Some states also celebrate Abraham Lincoln. Some states celebrate all the presidents but all the states celebrate george washington it all comes back to him let's finish with these cherries because there is that legend about george washington and the cherry tree and he was honest when asked if he cut it down now that story is a The legend and the person who invented it admitted that it was just a myth, it was just a legend, but still it is a symbol of George Washington and people love to eat cherries on President's Day, so if you can have a couple of cherries and remember. the first president of the United States and if you want you can remember the others too
presidents day facts for kids

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