Plan special celebrations or teachable moments with this calendar filled with special days and activities! This month we celebrate: Happiness Happens Month, Water Quality Month and Inventors Month.
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1 International Mountain Climbing Day National Mountain Climbing DayGet prepped for a climb by reading A Day on the Mountain. | 2 Coloring Book Day | 3 | 4 International Clouded Leopard Day | 5 | 6 | 7 Sand Castle Day |
8 International Cat DayHappiness Happens Day | 9 Book Lover's Day Book Lover's DayWhat to do on Book Lovers Day...READ! Of course we have more than 100 great reasons to celebrate this day, but if you don't have a large book collection of your own, today is a great day to visit the library and sign up for a library card or visit a bookstore near you for events - you may even meet an author. | 10 World Lion Day | 11 Play in the Sand Day Play in the Sand DayArbordale is celebrating this special day with Jennifer Keats Curtis' Turtles in My Sandbox. Click here if you would like to preview the eBook. After reading the book get outside and dig in. If you are lucky enough to live on the sandy coast of the ocean or a lake build a sandcastle to celebrate this day. Peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower | 12 World Elephant Day World Elephant DayElephants are so important to thier environment and they are threatened by many factors. Help conserve and protect these amazing creatures by learning more about them. Get to know our new book about elephants, Once Upon an Elephant! | 13 | 14 World Lizard Day World Lizard DayToday it's all about Little Skink's Tail! After you read about Skink and her troubles learn more about this lizard by completing the silly sentences in the teaching activities! |
15 Relaxation DayAcadian Day | 16 Tell a Joke Day | 17 Black Cat Appreciation Day | 18 Bad Poetry Day Have fun with writing today, practice rhyming, construct a haiku, maybe a limerick! | 19 International Orangutan DayAviation Day | 20 World Mosquito Day World Mosquito DayMosquitoes are considered one of the most dangerous animals in the world. Find out why in The Most Dangerous! Today is not a day to celebrate this biting bug, but a day to become aware of the diseases they spread learn more and find out how you can help, here. | 21 World Honey Bee DayPoet's Day |
22 | 23 | 24 Vesuvius Day Mount Vesuvius DayOn August 24th 79 AD Mount Vesuvius erupted devastating the population of Pompeii. Learn more about this eruption here! In 1980 the United States had its own eruption when Mount St. Helens caused devastation to the forests surrounding the volcano. In Terry Catasus Jennings book Gopher to the Rescue you can learn more about volcanoes and how nature recovers from these eruptions. Pluto Demoted Day | 25 | 26 National Dog Day National Dog DayDogs are loyal, loving and wonderful companions so celebrate that friendship today by spoiling your dog. Walks, treats and a game of fetch are favorites of many dogs. If you don't have a dog of your own volunteer at a local pet shelter and learn about the responsibility of taking care of a pooch. Newton & Me and Champ's Story Dogs Get Cancer Too. | 27 International Bat Night | 28 Daffodil Day |
29 | 30 International Whale Shark Day | 31 |
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