Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Integrating Culture: The month of February has it all!

If you are looking for reasons to read, February gives you many. There are lots of things to recognize and learn from this month. Let's just check out the top ten that are most discussed in schools.

1. Black History Month (since 1976)
2. Feb. 2nd- Groundhog Day
3. Feb. 3rd- Chinese New Year- begins the year of the Rabbit
4. Feb. 3- Elmo's birthday!!!!
5. The Superbowl
6. Feb. 4 Rosa Park's birthday
7. Feb. 14 Valentine's Day
8. Feb. 21 Presidents' Day (President Lincoln and Washington have birthdays)
9. Depending on the date -100 day of school!
10. Children's Dental health month


So, as you can see those are just the top ten. If you go to February special days there will be even more. Who knew so many things could be crammed into such a short month!?!


Choose what is important to your child and visit your local library for books! Throughout the month, I will share my favorite stories. Enjoy!

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