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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy February 2020!

February is a great time to work on art projects and science projects at home with your parents' help. Create your own Google Doodle and enter the 2020 Doodle for Google contest. The U.S. national winner will win a $30,000 scholarship as well as $50,000 for their school! Read all about it on page 5.

Winter days indoors offer a perfect opportunity to try out some fun science experiments with the whole family. Brainstorm ideas for ways to improve people's lives through science, and enter the 2020 3M Young Scientist challenge (students 5th-8th grade). Read about the current challenge winners and their cool science inventions on pages 14 and 15.

February 14th is Valentine's Day! Valentine's Day reminds us to let the people we love know how much we appreciate them. Have fun making cards and writing Valentine's Day poems for your family, teachers, and friends!

Complete the Kids Across, Parents Down Crossword puzzle (page 7) with a parent, grandparent, or teacher, and have fun with the Hidden Picture Puzzle, tricky dot-to-dots. Math-a-Muse puzzle and lots more!

Have a fun February!

OLIVIA MUNN WITH CHANCE AND FRANKIE: ADOPTED 2014 AND 2016.

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Dot-to-Dot SETS Instructions Stop your line after completing each set of numbers, (numbered sets are listed at the top right of the puzzle) then skip to the next set and start your line again. Can you guess what this is? Connect the dots to find out !

How many hidden items can you find? Hidden Picture Puzzle by Liz