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Did you knw that Green was not the first color associated with St. Patrick? So how did green come to represent this holiday? Go to the History Channel to find out why and find out additional trivia about St. Patrick's Day.

Watch the video, My Lucky Day by Eric Herman.

What do you consider to be your lucky item? Do you have a lucky number? Maybe you wear a lucky pair of socks for game day? Do you have a lucky shiny stone? Post a comment to our blog and let us know what your lucky item is and why!

Play:

• St. Patrick's Day Crossword Puzzle
• St. Patrick's Day Word Search

Dr. Seuss is one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time.  Dr. Seuss believed that books and learning to read should be fun and exciting for children. What is your favorite Dr. Seuss book?

To celebrate Dr. Seuss, try Seussville!  Enjoy all the games and activities that help make reading fun!

February's word of the month is kindness.  This time of year, especially Valentine's Day, we want to express our love to others and show concern for others.  Each and every one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun and actually make us feel good too. Listen to Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli. Find out what changes Mr. Hatch and how that affects others.

Try to "show your heart" by doing acts of kindness for others. Share what you did and how this act of kindness made you feel.  

Watch this video to find out about the Olympics.

This year’s winter Olympics is being held in Sochi, Russia. Find out more about the fifteen at Olympic winter sports. Which winter sport is your favorite and why?

Celebrate the “Year of the Horse” and explore Chinese culture and language.

• Does your zodiac animal represent you? Share an example with us – Chinese Zodiac.
• Chinese New Year Maze and Word Search
• Primary Leap offers a research sheet for each Zodiac Animal.
• Images of Chinese Zodiac Animals

Snowflake Puzzler Try National Geographic ‘s eight different puzzles for you to solve.
Winter Match Game – Just like the game memory, you can have fun finding matches. Scramble the cards and play countless times.
Winter Word Search – From winter to mittens, search the puzzle for 12 winter words.
Have fun!

Thanks to the "Snowflake Man" we know that every snowflake is unique. Wilson Bentley was the first person ever to photograph microscopic images of snowflakes. Watch the news report about his life.

In 1925 Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley stated "Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were miracles of beauty." Watch the video below of the images he photographed under his microscope.

Listen to the picture book written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin.

Take this quiz to see how well you listened – Quia's Snowflake Bentley

Challenges:
1. Design as many different snowflakes on sheet paper.  Here is an example:

2. Follow directions on how to make a 6-point snowflake.

Here we are making our gingerbread houses!  What a perfectly sweet culmination to our study of the gingerbread cookie stories.  We read many versions of (The Gingerbread Boy, The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Baby, The Gingerbread Girl, and many more) and compared and contrasted titles, characters, setting, dialogue and story endings.  After reading the stories we talked with one another about our favorite version and made a graph to show the results.

Listen to Dave Pilkey's 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. Compare this story to the President's Turkey Pardon of 2012.

Brain Pop, Jr. has a video and quiz about Thanksgiving. Click the image below and see how well you do!

Try Turkey Swap is to switch the locations of the turkeys and the pigs with as few moves as possible. You can move each tile by clicking on it. A tile can be moved to the empty space if the space is immediately beside it, or if there is one tile between it and the space.