Se7en’s February…

Welcome to February… Just cannot believe that February is here already…

Click on the calendar page, it will open in a new tab, print it out (landscape works better) and then colour it and fill in the days that you want to celebrate… pop it on the fridge and you are good to go. You can still find all the calendar pages down the right hand side of our website and they are all gathered together in our Almanac page for easy searching… If you have holidays or ideas that you would like to add then please go ahead and comment, I would love to have our calendars packed to the brim!!!

Here you go:

1 February: Robinson Crusoe Day

• Free Audio Download, from Kids.Learnoutloud.

1 February: National Baked Alaska Day.

• Se7en Bake Alaska in Se7en Steps.

2 February: Groundhog Day

• Crafty goodies from the Crafty Crow.
• So does Activity Village.

3 February: Elmo’s Birthday

• The Official Site is the only place to be!!!

4 February 1902: Charles Lindbergh’s Birthday (1902 – 1974).

• The Official Lindbergh site.

4 February 1913: Rosa Parks Birthday (1913 – 2005).

• Rosa Parks from Scholastic.
• And thank-you Garden of Praise for doing all the hard work and gathering resources and printables.

5 February: Western Monarch Day (U.S.A.)

• Lots of links at the Children’s Butterfly site.
• Se7en visit Butterfly World, Cape Town.
• Enchanted Learning has heaps of butterfly goodies.

6 February 1895: Babe Ruth’s Birthday (1895 – 1948)

• Babe Ruth for Kids at Babe Ruth Central

6 February 1935: Monopoly Board Game.

• Monopoly Cape Town… it’s a thing!!!
• Monopoly was designed to teach the 99% about income inequality at Smithsonian.com

6 February 1911: Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004).

• Another biography, from CNN.

7 February 1812: Charles Dickens Birthday (1812 – 1870)

• Charles Dickens for Kids on BBC.
• Totally cool for kids “Bleak House Game” from the BBC.
• Charles Dickens Internet Scavenger Hunt, from lesson plans page.
• Fast Facts on the Charles Dickens Page.

7 February 1867: Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 – 1957).

• We are half way through the series on Audible, read by Cherry Jones… it is loveliness personified!!!
• I totally love this site and use it every time my kids read a Little House book for school… Love the Family tree.
• A Little House Virtual Field Trip.

8 February 1828: Jules Verne (1828 – 1905).

• My Hero has a biograhy.
• Michael Palin’s Trip.

9 February 1894: Hershey Chocolate Founded (1894).

• You could do worse than visit Hershey’s Chocolate World.

9 February: Clean out Your Computer Day.

• Se7en’s Computer Maintenance Plan.

11 February 1990: Nelson Mandela Released (1990).

• Flowers for Madiba.
• The Children’s Madiba.
• News report from BBC On This Day.
• Happy Birthday Madiba from Se7en.
• Madiba Magic Silk Shirts from Se7en.
• His Day is Done by Maya Angelou on youtube.

11 February 1847: Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931).

• As usual you cannot beat the Garden of Praise.
• Very cool online book with activities from Laurie Carlson.
• Scroll down for lots of lovely links from Sciencenetlinks.com.

12 February 1809: Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865).

• Lots of Links from Apples for the Teacher.
• Garden of Praise does Abraham Lincoln.

12 February 1809: Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882).

• Quick Questions about his life from About Darwin.
• The Great Dinosaur Mystery from Se7en.
• Creation vs. Evolution Book Review.

14 February: World Book Giving Day.

• World Book Giving Day Website.
• Se7en’s Readers Have Raised Another Library Book by Book…
• World Book Giving Day on Se7en.
• A Primary School Library in Manenberg.
• And a Community library in Eerste River.
• A Township School in Stanford.
• A rural village school in Lesotho.

14 February: Valentines Day.

• This is the second year we have been a part of Red Ted Art’s #31Days of Love Crafty Collection…
• Se7en’s Crafty Hearts and Round-Up
• Se7en do Se7en Valentines.
• A Valentine’s Party in Se7en Steps.
• Sunday Snippet: Se7en Valentine Bible Games.

14 February: Ferris Wheel Day.

• The Brief History of the Ferris Wheel at the Smithsonian.

15 February 1564: Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642).

• Totally fabulous site from P.B.S.
• His biography from About.com
• And then their is Galileo for kids – read it online and it has activities.

16 February: Presidents Day.

• President’s Day from Activity Village.
• The reason for Presidents Day, from the National Archives.

18 February 1930: Pluto Discovered.

• Kids Astronomy tells all about Pluto.

18 February: World Whale Day.

• Se7en Welcome the Whales.
• Whale facts and heaps of links at KidsKonnect.

19 February 1473: Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543).

• Early astronomers and links from library point.

20 February 1962: John Glen orbits the earth.

• The story of the orbit from Nasa.gov.

20 February: Toothpick patented (1872).

• Stacking toothpicks from how stuff works.
• How to make THE bridge from pisymphony.
• Cool Trick from the surfing scientist.

22 February 1732: George Washington (1732 – 1799).

• Social Studies for Kids has a heap of links.
• An interactive mystery, hunting for clues in a painting – The George Washington (Portrait for kids) A National Treasure.
• George Washington for kids with 21 Activities from Google Books.
• Biography and usual goodies from the Garden of Praise.

23 February 1997: Dolly the Sheep Cloned.

• Dolly the Sheep from Kids.net.au

24 February: Wilhelm Grimm (1786 – 1859).

• Animated fun from GrimmFairyTales.com, this site has biographies, stories etc.

25 February 1841: Pierre Renoir (1841 – 1919).

• Gotta love Artsmarts4kids!!!

26 February 1846: Buffalo Bill (1846 – 1917).

• Buffalo Bill for Kids… at Kid’nCowboys.
• Top 10 Things You Don’t Know About Buffalo Bill.

26 February 1829: Levi Strauss (1829 – 1902)

• Another Biography and links from ideafinder.com

27 February: Polar Bear Day.

• Cool page with a bit of everything Polar Bearish from Defenders.org.
• National Geographic Creature Feature.
• Fun from DLTK Booklinks.
• Polar Bear Crafts from BrightHub.com
• Cute story and activities from Twiggle Magazine.

27 February 1807: Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow (1807 – 1882).

• Great biography from dlstewart.com
• Biography from poets.org.
• The Official Site from the Maine Historical Society.

28 February 1953: DNA discovered (1953).

• Learn Genetics from UtahUniversity.
• DNA History from DNAlearningcenter.

• Leap Year Traditions and Facts on Time and Date.com
• And there is of course: LeapYearDay.com!
• Infoplease explains the How and the Why of Leap Years.