It explains how the timing of the Earth creates a Leap Year and then about how people with birthdays on February 29th only get to celebrate on their actual birthday once every 4 years. Is starts with seconds, years, decades, etc. For February they do reference 28 days except during a Leap Year! It’s a great little rhyme and the Mother Goose Club videos do a great job of doing things once and then doing them again for the kids to say along. This is not so much about Leap Year but about how many days are in each month. It says “Maybe it’s God’s bonus day, his gift to us for catching up on laundry…” If this is an issue, you can skip those 6 seconds and the rest of the video is perfect for little learners.

It has a cute start with some fun reasons why we celebrate like “people are happy so they leap.” There is one religious reference at :40. This video explains it perfectly – how every year is 365 days and 4 hours and so every 4 years they put that extra time together for an extra day. VeggieTales: Larry’s Leapin’ Leap Year (2:11) Oh – the start has a little bit of sarcasm – “Great an extra day, who really cares?” But the illustrations are good and the video talks about some good points. At about up to 1:44 the video starts to talk about the Egyptians and history and, although it is very interesting, I am not sure I would play that part for my students. It starts by going over the science behind the why we have an extra day. If you REALLY want to know what Leap Year is, this is your video.

Frog leap year