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Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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December 30 |
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January 1 |
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January is National Health Month |
Great
Sites for Teaching about Health |
Say "Happy New Year" in many languages
Ellis Island Opened |
kThe
Drinking Straw was Patented
Georgia became the 4th
U.S. state (1788)
Information : The Fifty States of the United States |
Alaska Admission Day
Explore Alaska: Three Scavenger Hunts |
Louis Braille’s Birthday
Jacob Grimm, German librarian and fairy tale collector, born (1785)
Using
Fairy Tales to Debate Ethics |
George Washington Carver Day
More
National Bird Day |
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Joan of Arc’s Birthday
Label a map of France.
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Millard
Fillmore’s Birthday
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Elvis Presley’s Birthday
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Aviation Anniversary
National Static
Electricity Day |
Women’s Suffrage
First Meeting of United Nations |
Milk Day
Milk was
delivered in bottles for the first time in 1878.
Amelia Earhart began a flight from
Honolulu, HI to Oakland, CA becoming the first woman to fly solo across
the Pacific Ocean (1935)
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Pyramid Mysteries Unearthed
National Handwriting Day |
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Rubber Duckie's Birthday
Douglas
Wilder |
Benedict Arnold’s Birthday
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Martin Luther King
Day
Take a quiz on MLK Jr.
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Persian Gulf War Began
Dian Fossey,
the world's leading authority on the mountain gorilla
(Gorillas in the Mist), was born
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Benjamin Franklin's
Birthday
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Pooh Day
WWI Peace Congress opened in Versailles, France (1919) |
Popcorn Day
Robert
E. Lee, commander of Confederate forces during the Civil
War, born
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John
F. Kennedy's Inauguration
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Ethan Allen,
frontiersman and Revolutionary War
leader of the Vermont Green Mountain Boys, born
Do Something Day |
Boy
Scouts Begins
Lord George Gordon Byron,
English Romantic poet born |
National School Nurse Day
National Handwriting Day |
California Gold Rush
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Macintosh
Computer Released
Alexander
Graham Bell transcontinental telephone service begins |
National Bird
Michigan became a state, 1837
Read a page on Michigan,
then
take a quiz. |
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31 |
February 1 |
2 |
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Mozart’s Birthday
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Challenger
Explodes
Alice Neel (artist) born, 1900
Color one of Neel's paintings |
National Puzzle Day
Chinese New Year
Year of the
Pig
Kansas became the 34th
state in the U.S. |
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt’s Birthday
Read about FDR, then write a paragraph on him.
Islamic New Year
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Jackie Robinson’s
Birthday
Print and take a quiz on African-American history |
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