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February has lots of other things to celebrate too! We have President’s Day in which we honor our presidents. We also have Black History Month in which we honor those import-

ant men, women and historical events that changed our nation and the world. Let’s not forget the 100th day of school which is celebrated in our classrooms with fun activities and

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Did you know that February is the shortest month of the year? This February is a Leap Year which we celebrate every four years! Usually February only has 28 days, but this year, February 29th is the day that is used to make up time. Adding an extra day to the calendar every four years compensates for the fact that a period of 365 days is shorter

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Everyone can learn to draw. Learning to draw is mainly learning to seeshapes. Here is a fun way to practice training your eye to see shapes.Choose a shape to focus on such as a circle or oval. Begin experiment-ing with using different sizes of your shape to construct familiar things

3. Bumble BeeCut out the shapes shown

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like faces, flowers or animals. Adding a few additional shapes may benecessary, but try to mostly use the shape you have chosen.

On our page we have selected the heart shape to create animals,however, you will see that some circles and a few other shapes wereadded as needed.

Practice creating heart animals by cutting shapes out with paper orby simply drawing shapes on paper. Have fun creating these animalsusing many colors and different sizes of hearts. Try designing your ownanimals too!

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Lives of the Presidents:Fame, Shame (And What the Neighbors Thought)by Kathleen Krull / Kathryn Hewitt (ILT)

Every U.S. president is the focus of publicscrutiny, but how well do we know these men?What kind of fathers do presidents make?Husbands? Neighbors? Other books focus onthe historical achievements of those who haveoccupied our country's highest office; Lives ofthe Presidents looks instead at their bad habits,silly nicknames, and strange pets. Every president - from George Washington to Bill Clinton - is included, with an emphasis onthose who have had the greatest impact on history. Discover their high points, low points,and the times in between. Grades 4-6

Just in Time, Abraham Lincolnby Patricia Polacco

Michael and Derek don't expect the adventure of a lifetime visiting a Civil War mu-seum with their grandmother. But the mysteriousmuseum keeper invites them to play a game,and before they know it they are walking througha door straight into 1863. They see the destruction at the battlefield of Antietam, andeven meet President Lincoln. Soon, they start towonder if it’s really a game and suddenly they'reracing across Confederate occupied land toreturn to their own time before it's too late.Grades 2-4

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Legend says that on each dead president'sbirthday, his ghost haunts the grounds of theremote retreat Camp David. But KC andMarshall aren't worried, even though they willbe there on October 14, President Eisenhower's birthday. That is, they aren't worried until strange things start happening.How did a bat get trapped in their cabin? Whyis there blood-red dirt in the trunk by the couch? And what is making the weird thumpingnoise underground? It's not Eisenhower's ghost . . . is it? Grades 3-4

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The White House ChristmasMysteryby Carole Marsh

When Christina and Grant visit the WhiteHouse for a special Christmastime tour, theymake new friends as they get lost behind thescenes, hear reports of terrorists in the building,and learn about the President's home and thepeople who have lived there. Grades 2-4

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Camp David, is one of the safest places inthe United States. So why can't the President'sson, Luke, and his friends Theo and Callie staythere without Secret Service agents constantlyhovering over them, watching their everymove? And yet, when an earthquake sets off araging wildfire, causing a chain reaction thatwreaks havoc at Camp David, they are suddenly on their own.

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Harry Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884. He grew up in thecity of Independence and prospered as a Missouri farmer. He loved to read andwas taught by his mother. He was also an excellent piano player. Truman was ed-ucated at local grade and high schools and in 1923, he attended two years of lawschool.

During World War I, as a member of the National Guard, he went to France as aCommander of his Field Artillery unit. When he returned he married Elizabeth (Bess)Virginia Wallace and opened a store in Kansas City. They had one child, Margaret.

He was very active in the Democratic Party. He became a senator in 1934. Dur-ing World War II, he headed the Senate war investigating committee and saved asmuch as 15 billion dollars checking into waste and corruption.

He became Vice President under President Roosevelt and on April 12, 1945, whenRoosevelt died, he became president. During his term as vice president, he re-ceived no briefing on the develpment of the atomic bomb or the problems regardingSoviet Russia. These are items he found out about when he became president.When Japan refused to surrender, Truman along with his consultants and advisors,ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japanese cities that were devoted towar work. Two of these cities were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenderedquickly after that.

He presented Congress with a 21 point program that proposed expansion of So-cial Security, a full employment program, a perma-nent Fair Employment Practices Act, public housingand slum clearance. This program became knownas the Fair Deal.

In 1947, when the Soviet Union pressured Turkeyand threatened to take over Greece, he asked Con-gress to aid these two countries. Thus came theTruman Doctrine. President Truman implementedthe Marshall Plan, which was named for his Secre-tary of State, George Marshall. This plan stimu-lated the economic recovery in western Europe.

Russia blockaded the western part of Berlin in1948 and the United States created an airlift tosupply Berliners with food and other supplies untilRussia backed down. President Truman negoti-ated a military allliance to protect Western nationsin 1949, which was called the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization. This was a group of countries thatpromised to help protect one another.

In 1950, when the Communist government ofNorth Korea attacked South Korea, a struggle

HARRY S. TRUMAN33rd President, 1945-1953

started. Truman ordered troops to South Korea to help stopa communist invasion.

He retired at the age of 88 to Independence, Missouri anddied on December 26, 1972.

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• One of President Truman’s famous sayings was, "If youcan't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." He meant youneed to take responsibility for what you do.• Harry Truman and his future wife Bess Wallace were theonly President and First Lady to graduate from the same highschool.• President Truman gave many speeches over the radio tothe American people. That way everyone could hear impor-tant news from him. Most people did not have televisions yet.• He really liked to read. By the age of 14 he was said tohave read all the books in the public library. He also read thefamily bible 3 times.• A famous quote from President Truman was: "Within thefirst few months, I discovered that being a President is likeriding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed."

Harry and Bess Truman ontheir wedding day.

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• ‘Tyrannosaurus’ comes from theGreek words meaning ‘tyrantlizard’, while the word ‘rex’ means‘king’ in Latin.• Tyrannosaurus rex is often ab-breviated to T-Rex.• Tyrannosaurus rex lived in anarea of the Earth that now makesup western North America.• Tyrannosaurus rex measured upto 42 feet in length, 13 feet at thehip and could weigh up to 7 tons!• The skull of a Tyrannosaurus rexalone measured up to 5 feet long.• The largest tooth of any carnivo-rous dinosaur found to this date isthat of a T-Rex. It is estimated tohave been around 12 inches longwhen including the root.• When Tyrannosaurus rex hitaround the age of 14 its body sizewould increase rapidly, putting onaround 1300 pounds a year overthe next 4 years.• Tyrannosaurus rex had smallarms that were extremely powerfuland featured two clawed fingers.

• The name ‘Triceratops’ comesfrom the Greek language, with ‘tri’meaning three and ‘keratops’meaning horned face.• Triceratops lived in the late Cre-taceous Period (around 65 millionyears ago). • It needed its three horns to tryand protect itself from the Tyran-nosaurus Rex which lived duringthe same time period.• It is believed that fully grownTriceratops were about 26 feet inlength, 10 feet in height andweighed anywhere between 6 to12 tons.• The skull of a Triceratops alonecould grow over 7 feet in length.• The Triceratops was a plant eat-ing (herbivore) dinosaur.• The first known fossils to be thatof a Triceratops were horns at-tached to a partial skull, found nearDenver, Colorado in 1887.• Triceratops had anywhere be-tween 400 and 800 teeth, althoughonly a small percentage of thesewere in use at any one time asthey were constantly replacedthroughout its lifetime.• The State of Wyoming lists theTriceratops as its state dinosaur.

• The Stegosaurus is the most fa-mous dinosaur from a group of di-nosaurs known as Stegosauria.They were all herbivores (planteaters) and featured rows ofunique bones that developed intoplates and spines along their backand tail.• The name ‘Stegosaurus’ comesfrom the Greek words ‘stegos’meaning roof and ‘sauros’ mean-ing lizard.• Stegosaurus fossils have beenfound in western North America. • In terms of size, the Stegosauruswas large and heavily built. On av-erage, a fully grown Stegosauruswas around 30 feet in length, 14feet in height and up to nearly 5metric tons in weight.• Although the Stegosaurus bodywas large, the size of their brainwas only around the size of adog’s.• The 17 plates found along theback of the Stegosaurus arosefrom the skin rather than being at-tached to the skeleton. The largestplates were around 2 feet tall and 2feet wide.• The Stegosaurus also featuredtail spikes that reached around 2 to3 feet in length.

• The Spinosaurus lived around100 million years ago in what isnow North Africa.• The name Spinosaurus means‘spine lizard’.• Fossils of the Spinosaurus werefirst found in Egypt around 1910.• The Spinosaurus was larger thanthe Tyrannosaurus Rex and mayhave been the largest carnivorous(meat eating) dinosaur ever.• Studies estimate that it wasaround 49 feet in length andweighed anywhere between 7 to20 tons.• The Spinosaurus featured dis-tinctive spines which grew over 1.5metres (5 feet) long.• The Spinosaurus had a long, thinskull.• While the Spinosaurus usuallywalked on two legs, studies sug-gest that it may have occasionallycrouched on all four.• Spinosaurus were featured in thepopular movie Jurassic Park 3.

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Volleyball has become a very popular sport. The game was in-vented in 1895 by William G. Morgan. He was a teacher at aYMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He combined parts of othersports like tennis, baseball, basketball and handball to create anew game played indoors. Morgan borrowed the net from tennisand raised it six and a half feet above the floor. It was differentthen compared to what it is today. At first, you could have as manyplayers as you wanted on a team. There were nine innings pergame with three outs per inning. There was also no limit on thenumber of hits of the ball on each side of the court.

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•Volleyball is played by two teams of six players on a court dividedby a net. Three players are positioned in the front row and threeare in the back row.• The object of the game is to send the ball over the net so that theopposing team cannot return the ball or prevent it from hitting theground in their court.• Each team has three hits to attempt to return the ball over the netto the other team.• The ball is put in play by a serve that is hit by the server over the

net to the opponent.• When the receiving teamwins a volley, it gains theright to serve, and theplayers rotate one positionclockwise.• When the serving teamwins a volley, it wins apoint and the right to con-tinue serving.• The player who rotatesinto the back-right positionwill serve the ball. Thatplayer must stand behindthe serving line when serv-ing the ball. The server

can use theirhand or arm tohit the ball. Theball must goover the net andfall within theboundary lineson the opposingteam's side. Ifthe serving teamwins the point,then the sameplayer will con-tinue to servethe ball.• A game isplayed to 21points or someother agreedupon number.The team thatwins the besttwo out of threegames wins thematch.

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Ace - When the ball is served to the other team and no onetouches it.Sideout - When the team that served the ball makes a mistake,causing the ball to go to the other team.Roof - When a player jumps above the height of the net and blocksthe ball.Dig - When a player makes a save from a very difficult spike.Kill - When a team spikes the ball and it ends in either a point ora sideout.

Volleyball is a fun sport that is easy to learn and can be playedin a gym, at the beach, or on grass. Playing volleyball will help im-prove your cardio, flexibility, balance and coordination. It is also agreat sport to learn about teamwork. Most schools have a volley-ball team or you can also find leagues for kids at your local com-munity center.

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The Cello

Pablo Casals was regarded as one of the greatest cello play-ers and composers (writers of music) of the twentieth century.Pictured here is Pablo Casals performance at the White Housein 1961.

The violincello,nicknamed thecello (pro-nounced chello)is one of the big-ger instrumentsin the string fam-ily. The fourmajor instru-ments in thestring family arethe violin, theviola, the celloand the doublebass. The cellois typically madeof various woods

that are chosen to enhance the performance of the instrument.The top is made of spruce, with maple for the back and sides. Theneck is made of maple and ebony, the preferred wood for the fin-gerboard because of its hardness and beauty. These parts arecarefully carved and shaped, and then glued together with a spe-cial glue - never nailed. After the body of the cello is assembledand varnished, the four strings, bridge, tailpiece, endpin, and var-ious smaller pieces are added. Four strings (sometimes five onthe double bass) which are made of animal gut, nylon or steel andare wrapped around pegs at one end of the instrument and at-tached to a tailpiece at the other end. The strings are stretchedtightly across a bridge to produce their assigned pitches.

The cello is the tenor voice in the string family. It plays notes thatare lower than the viola but not as low as the string bass. Thestrings are more than twice as long as the strings on the viola. Asymphony orchestra will usually have 8 to 12 cellists. While it’sshaped like a violin, the cello is much larger and is held betweenthe player’s knees as they are sitting down. In today’s orchestras,

cellists also support most of the weight of the cello with an endpinthat extends out from the bottom of the cello. The left hand is re-sponsible for fingering the notes, while the right hand plucks orbows the strings.

Interesting Cello Facts• Famous violin maker Antonia Stradivari was the first to create anupright cello like the ones we use today. He also was the first toadd the tail spikes so they can rest on the floor.• The plural of cello is celli.• A person who plays a cello is a cellist.• Cello strings are tuned in the same way as viola strings, exceptthey are an octave lower.

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I was born to run very fast and win horse races. My name is Lukas. Mygreat-great-grandfather was a famous champion and my owners hoped Icould be like him. I tried very hard to do what they wanted, but my legsweren't strong enough. Thoroughbreds like me are raced when we're onlytwo years old, so I got hurt and couldn't race anymore. My owners found anew stable for me, but when my legs healed I was even slower, so they gaveme away to someone else. This owner didn't want to keep me either, so Iwent to several other homes which got worse with each move. Finally, Iended up with people who couldn't feed me and I got very skinny and sad.

One day, a lady drove by and saw me. She felt so sorry for me she offeredto buy me. This lady was a trainer and wanted me to be a jumper. I triedmy best, but the work was very hard and it hurt my sore legs. She put meup for sale too because she didn't want to keep a horse who couldn't win rib-bons. I was advertised as a kind and sensitive horse - I was going to anothernew home, but this time it would be different.

My next owner, Karen, had loved horses since she was a little girl. Her par-ents were too poor to buy her much, least of all a horse. So, when she grewup, she became a nurse and bought horses with problems, fixed them andfound good homes for them. She fell in love with me at our first meeting. Ihad a lot of bad habits by then and was very wild. I was already nine yearsold and didn't know how to behave. It took Karen a long time to gain my trustand attention, but she wouldn't give up on me. For the first time in my life, Iwas allowed to be myself and she paid attention to what I wanted.

I had a hard time focusing, so Karen helped me understand lessons usingfun games. We played with all sorts of toys and I finally felt like I was spe-cial to someone. She gave me choices and showed me how to make theright decisions and I began to learn some very interesting things. Karen sawthat I could be good at a lot of things. Her belief in me made me feel like Icould succeed. I may not have been very fast, but maybe I could be thebest at something else.

Karen and I were having so much fun! She used tricks to build my confi-dence. Before long I was able to smile, nod yes, shake my head no, bow,curtsey, step onto my pedestal, wave, pose and hold it, pretend to be lame,yawn, kiss her - even give her a big face lick if she asked! I could do theSpanish Walk (a big high walk), Passage (like skipping), stay and come, laydown, sit, fetch and catch. I did all these things out of love for Karen. Shelets me be free and doesn't use any equipment (she doesn't even own awhip), so people can see that animals can be trained without any force.

Karen could see how much I enjoyed learning and was always trying tocome up with new classes for me. Her belief that animals would be treatedbetter if people realized how smart we were gave her an idea. How muchcould I really learn? So, together, we explored this patiently and kindly.Karen showed me different ways to think. I was able to understand manywords and lessons and I became very calm and wise. I learned to spell,count, identify shapes, pick a color, put things where Karen asked, and un-derstand same/different, bigger and when something was absent.

Now, I'm very famous - the World Records Academy has recognized meas the World's Smartest Horse and Guinness World Records has officiallyrecognized my history making achievement: "Most numbers identified bya horse in one minute." This seventeen year old met all the guidelines andidentified NINETEEN numbers in less than sixty seconds.

I've been on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, HLN, Inside Edition and the Asso-ciated Press and America on Line have done feature stories about me.Karen has talked about me on Pet Talk Radio, Pet Talk Live Radio, PetPlace Radio, Animal Radio and RFD-Radio and I have appeared in news-papers, forums, blogs and newsletters all over the world. I was nominatedfor the 2010 Equine Vision Award sponsored by Pfizer and American HorsePublications. My web-site (http://www.playingwithlukas.com) has been vis-ited by friends from fifty-one countries (I'm a million hit horse now!) and Ihave my own book and documentary. I have been invited to appearancesall over the country and Karen makes speeches about me too.

But it gets even better - Karen and I donate our time and services toshare the happy results of kind training and to show how smart and won-derful animals are for their improved treatment. My favorite is meeting chil-dren. Karen dresses me up in costumes so they can see how fun horsesare. I'm also the Spokeshorse for several rescue organizations and a ther-apy practice for sick people. The best part - Karen tells me that I am achampion after all.

The World’sSmartest Horse


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Republic OfEstonia

• Estonia is an Eastern European country which borders the BalticSea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia. It is about thesize of New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined.• The capital city is Tallinn. It is one of the best-preserved mediaevalcities. It is also the city of the first Christmas tree in the world. In 1441,the tree was put up in the town square.• The government is a Parliamentary Democracy. Estonia re-gainedits independence on August 20, 1991 from the U.S.S.R.• Natural resources: Oil shale, phosphorite, limestone, blue clay.• Estonia enjoys a mild climate because of marine influences. Mainlya lowland, the republic has numerous lakes, frequently of glacial ori-gin. Peipus (Lake Chudskoye), the largest lake, is important for bothshipping and fishing. It is also Europe’s fourth largest freshwater lake.Along Estonia's Baltic coast are more than 800 islands, of whichSaaremaa is the most notable. • The climate is temperate with warm summers and severe winters.Temperatures range from 70 degrees F in the summer, to a winter av-erage of 18 degrees F. They have four seasons of equal length.Being on the Baltic Sea, Estonia is subjected to sea breezes and hu-midity.• The highest peak in Estonia is Suur Munamagi. It is the highestpoint in the entire Baltic region at 1043 feet above sea level.• The Republic's rivers include the Narva, Pärnu, Ema, and Kasari.• Estonia is the world's second largest producer of oil shale. The ma-jority of its workforce is involved in industry, which also includes min-ing, shipbuilding, information technology, and the manufacture ofwood products, electronic and telecommunications equipment, tex-tiles and clothing, and machinery.• Its efficient agricultural sector employs some 11% of the labor forceand produces meat (largely pork), dairy products, potatoes, flax, andsugar beets. Fishing is also important.

• Throughout history, many other nations that ruled the region –Danes, Germans, Swedes, Poles and Russians – have influencedEstonian cuisine. Among the traditional dishes are marinated eel,blood sausage and sauerkraut stew with pork.• Famous Estonians include the writer Jaan Kross whose work hasbeen translated into at least 20 languages, the author of the nationalepic (Kalevipoeg) Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, and the writer, film-maker, diplomat and politician Lennart Meri. He became the firstPresident of Estonia after the restoration of independence.• In the Bronze Age a meteorite fell in Kaali on the island of Saare-maa. The Kaali catastrophe was the last known case of a large me-teorite to fall on a populated area. Estonia has the highest numberof meteorite craters per land area in the world.

A scene from Tallinn, the capital.


Rules For The Kitchen!1. Always ask an adult if you can use the kitchen.

2. Have all the ingredients before you start.

3. Wash your hands before you touch food.

4. Wear an apron or towel to keep your clothes clean.

5. Always clean up when you are finished.

Cookin’ FunGimme a Kiss Cookies1 cup butter, softened 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour1/2 cup powdered cocoa 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 (10 ounce) package Hershey'sKisses

In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extractuntil light and fluffy. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, cocoaand salt. Gradually add this mixture to the butter mixture, beat-ing until well blended. Refrigerate dough about 1 hour or untilfirm enough to handle. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.Shape dough into 1 1/8 inch balls. Roll the balls in extra sugar.Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or untilset. Remove from the oven. Place an unwrapped Hershey’sKiss on each cookie, pressing down lightly. Cool completely.

Valentine Strawberry Shortcakes2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup shortening, chilled 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut in small pieces 1 cup buttermilk 1 quart strawberries cut small 1/4 cup sugar 1 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets. In a large bowl,whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Cut in the shorteningand butter using two knives or a pastry blender until the pieces are about the sizeof peas. Add the buttermilk and stir to blend.

Turn out on lightly floured board. Knead about 4 times and pat into a 3/4-inchthick rectangle. Using a 3-inch heart-shaped cutter, cut out biscuits. Cut as manybiscuits as possible by reforming scraps into a 3/4-inch thick rectangle. Bake about 20 minutes or until golden and baked through.

In a medium bowl, mix strawberries and sugar to combine. Let sit until juiceforms. In a large bowl with a beater on medium-high, beat cream with sugar andvanilla until whipped. To serve, slice through biscuit horizontally and place cutsides up on a plate. Top with 1/4 cup berries and juice and 1/3 cup of whippedcream.

Love Potion Smoothie1/2 cup frozen strawberries1/2 cup frozen raspberries1 small carton of yogurt1/2 cup ice cubes1 cup apple juice

Place strawberries, raspberries and juice in blender. Blend sev-eral seconds. If you would like a thicker smoothie add more fruit,or for a drinkable smoothie add 1/4 cup more juice.

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