It’s Explore Your Career Options Week!
Here’s a nice collection of free resources and activities for exploring careers for all ages and learning levels
https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2014/04/06/what-do-you-want-to-be/
It’s Explore Your Career Options Week!
Here’s a nice collection of free resources and activities for exploring careers for all ages and learning levels
https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2014/04/06/what-do-you-want-to-be/
Easter themed resources and activities
Though we did a Passion Week study and some arts and crafts as part of our week’s homeschooling lessons, we still have some Easter learning to do!
Here’s some awesome links for free Easter learning resources that we’ll be following throughout the weekend and into the first part of next week.
I’ve got a neighbor family in mind to “egg”. Not like a mean prank like throwing raw, rotten eggs at their house but to “egg” them in a way that will bless them! You can read about this wonderful idea and pick up a free printable to go with your eggs here http://happyhomefairy.com/2013/03/24/youve-been-egged-he-is-risen-style-free-printable/
I printed off this trivia game to test our Easter story knowledge http://www.myjoyfilledlife.com/2014/04/09/printable-easter-story-trivia-game/
We’ll be using this !st Corinthians 15 based article, Why the Resurrection Matters, for a discussion and study guide https://bible.org/seriespage/easter-1993-why-resurrection-matters-1-corinthians-151-19
Playing with food is science with this free “EggSperiment” printable pack (scroll…
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Here’s the collection of themes, foods, historic and scientific anniversaries, awareness days, and famous birthdays for April.
A free PDF of Special Days in April and other teaching resources can be found at the end of this list.
April’s Themes, Awareness, and Observances
April Food Themes
Special Days With Varying Dates
Daffodil Sunday (1st Sun.)
Bat Appreciation Week (1st full week)
Sweet Tater Day (1st Mon.)
Walking Day (1st Wed.)
Walk to Work Day (1st Fri.)
Birding Day (1st Sat.)
Love Our Children Day (1st Sat.)
Pillow Fight Day (1st Sat.)
Garden Week (2nd week)
Student Employment Week (2nd full week)
Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse (2nd Sun.)
Baby Massage Day (2nd Sat.)
Slow Art Day (2nd Sat.)
Boys & Girls Club Week (3rd full week)
Coin Week (3rd full week)
Boston Marathon (3rd Mon.)
Patriot’s Day (3rd Mon.)
High Five Day (3rd Thurs.)
World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (week of the 24th)
Global Youth Service Days (3rd weekend)
Auctioneers Day (3rd Sat.)
Husband Appreciation Day (3rd Sat.)
Karaoke Week (4th week)
Princess Week (last full week)
Sky Awareness Week ( last full week)
Environmental Education Week (Mon. of last full week)
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (4th Thurs.)
Pinhole Photography Day (last Sun.)
Arbor Day (last Fri.)
Save the Frogs Day (last Fri.)
Eeyore’s Birthday (last Sat.)
Frog Day (last Sat.)
Go Birding Day (last Sat.)
Sense of Smell Day (last Sat.)
Veterinary Day (last Sat.)
World Healing Day (last Sat.)
Special Days Without Set Dates
Explore Your Career Options Week
Public Health Week
Holy Week (sometimes March)
Palm Sunday (sometimes March)
Passover (sometimes March)
Good Friday (sometimes March)
Easter Sunday (sometimes March)
Easter Monday (sometimes March)
Library Week
Library Day (Tues. during Library Week)
Teen Literature Day (Thurs. of Library Week)
National Gardening Week (UK)
National Park Week
Just Pray No! Weekend of Prayer and Fasting
Money Smart Week
Preservation Week
Playground Safety Week
Teach Your Children to Save Day
Week of the Young Child
Poem In Your Pocket Day
Gathering of the Nations PowWow
Fiddler’s Frolic
Infant & Toddler Immunization Week
Special Days With Set Dates
April 1
April 2
April 3
April 4
April 5
April 6
April 7
April 8
April 9
April 10
April 11
April 12
April 13
April 14
April 15
April 16
April 17
April 18
April 19
April 20
April 21
April 22
April 23
April 24
April 25
April 26
April 27
April 28
April 29
April 30
Free Printable Download – Special Days in April
Collection of free ‘Special Days’ learning resources for April April Resource List
Here’s my favorite resources for help with teaching special days each month https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2016/07/31/learning-resources-for-special-days/
How I use Special Days lists in our homeschool blog series :
Special Days and the Evolution of Morning Calendar Time
Special Days Archive – Direct links to the most recent Special Days and Resource lists for each month
I make my monthly special days lists by using several sources including old calendars, holiday books, newspapers, and the web. If you know of a special day that I do not have listed, please comment and let me know what it is so I can add it in. Below are the links to my favorite online April calendars.
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/
http://www.holidayinsights.com/
http://www.se7en.org.za/se7ens-almanac
http://food.unl.edu/food-calendar
http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/calendar-at-a-glance/
http://chartsbin.com/view/2295
http://projectbritain.com/calendars/index.htm
Happy April!
betty jo
Did you add “Spring Cleaning” to your weekly lesson plans?
Free cross curriculum resources and ideas for St. Patrick’s Day!
https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2014/03/15/learning-resources-for-st-patricks-day/
Brain Awareness Week, March 15-21
Resources and activities
https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2014/03/11/brain-awareness-week/
Are you celebrating your family’s names this week? Fun learning resources and ideas for Celebrate Your Name Week!
https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2018/03/03/celebrate-your-name-week/
March is full of holidays, observances, food themes, awareness days , historic figures and authors birthdays, science and historic based anniversaries, and more! Whether you’re looking for seasonal studies, trivia, a day to celebrate, or a food to add to the menu, this list of special days for March gives you plenty to choose from!
Resources for teaching throughout the month, including a PDF of March’s Special Days, can be found at the end of this list.
March Themes, Awareness, and Observances
Adopt a Rescued Guinea Pig
Athletic Training
Brain Injury Awareness
Cerebral Palsy Awareness
Child Life
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness
Clean Up Your IRS Act
Colic Awareness
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness
Color Therapy
Craft
Credit Education
Deaf History
Developmental Disabilities Awareness
Diabetes Alert
Dolphin Awareness
Employee Spirit
Endometriosis Awareness
Ethics Awareness
Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering
Flower
Gender Equality
Hemophilia
Honor Society
Humorists Are Artists
Hypothermia Awareness and Training
International Ideas
Irish American Heritage
Kidney
Kite
Listening Awareness
Mad for Plaid
March Into Literacy
Mirth
Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness
Music In Our Schools
On Hold
Play the Recorder
Poison Prevention Awareness
Problem Gambling Awareness
Red Cross Save Your Vision
Sing With Your Child
Social Work
Spiritual Wellness
Umbrella
Women’s History
Women Inventors
Youth Art
March Food Themes
Bell Peppers
Berries
Broccoli
Caffeine Awareness
Celery
Cherries
Exotic Winter Fruits
Flour
Frozen Foods
Green Onion
Leeks
Meatout
Noodle
Nutrition
Peanut
Sauce
March Special Days with Varying Dates
● World Math Day (1st Wed.)
● World Book Day (1st Thurs.)
● Day of Unplugging (1st Fri.)
Dress in Blue Day (1st Fri.)
● World Day of Prayer (1st Fri.)
● International Festival of Owls (1st full weekend)
● Celebrate Your Name Week begins (1st full week)
● Namesake Day (Sun. of 1st full week)
● Fun Facts About Names Day (Mon. of 1st full week)
● Unique Names Day (Tues. of 1st full week)
Discover What Your Name
Means Day (Wed. of 1st full week)
Name Tag Day (Thurs. of 1st full week)
● Middle Name Pride Day (Fri. of 1st full week)
● Descendants Day (Sat. of 1st full week)
● Read an E-Book Week (1st full week)
Words Matter Week (1st full week)
● Newspaper in Education Week (1st Mon.)
● School Breakfast Week begins (Mon. of 1st full week)
● Share a Story – Shape a Future Week begins (1st Mon.)
● Women of Aviation Worldwide Week begins (week with March 8)
● Chocolate Chip Cookie Week * (2nd week)
● Commonwealth Day (2nd Mon.)
● Organize Your Home Office Day (2nd Tues.)
● Kidney Day (2nd Thurs.)
● Girl Scout Week (week of 12th)
● Absolutely Incredible Kid Day (3rd Thurs.)
● Quilting Day (3rd Sat.)
● Button Week (3rd full week)
● Chocolate Week (3rd full week)
● Folktales and Fables Week (3rd Week)
● Act Happy Week (3rd Mon.)
● Wellderly Week begins (3rd Mon.)
● Cleaning Week begins (last week)
● Diabetes Alert Day (4th Tues.)
● Little Red Wagon Day (last Wed.)
. Manatee Appreciation Day (last Wed.)
. Brother and Sister Day (last Sat.)
● Earth Hour (last Sat.)
March Special Days Without Set Dates
● Iditarod Race
● Lent (Sometimes Feb.)
● Return the Borrowed Books Week
● Sleep Awareness Week
● Teen Tech Week
● Ta’anit Esther/Purim (Sometimes Feb.)
● Procrastination Week
● Agriculture Week
● Science and Engineering Week (UK)
● Tsunami Awareness Week
● Daughters’ and Sons’ Day
● Check Your Batteries Day
● Daylight Savings Time begins
● Napping Day (day after Daylight Savings Time)
● Brain Awareness Week
● Ag Day
● Fix a Leak Week
● Naw-Ruz
● Ostara
● Spring Equinox/ 1st Day of Spring
● Shakespeare Week
● Nano Days
● Mothering Sunday (UK) (3 weeks
before Easter
● Consider Christianity Week begins (2 Sundays before Easter)
Holy Week (week before Easter)
● Good Friday (Fri. before Easter)
● Easter
Special Days with Set Dates
March 1
March 2
March 3
March 4
March 5
March 6
March 7
March 8
March 9
March 10
March 11
March 12
March 13
March 14
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 18
March 19
March 20
March 21
March 22
March 23
March 24
March 25
March 26
March 27
March 28
March 29
March 30
March 31
SPECIAL DAYS RESOURCES:
FREE PRINTABLE – SPECIAL DAYS IN MARCH
Here’s my favorite resources for help with teaching special days each month https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2016/07/31/learning-resources-for-special-days/
How I use Special Days lists in our homeschool blog series :
Special Days and the Evolution of Morning Calendar Time
Special Days Archive – Direct links to the most recent Special Days and Resource lists for each month
I make my monthly special days lists by using several sources including old calendars, holiday books, newspapers, and the web. If you know of a special day that I do not have listed, please comment and let me know what it is so I can add it in. Below are the links to my favorite online calendars.
http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/march.htm
http://food.unl.edu/march-food-calendar
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/march.html
http://www.se7en.org.za/se7ens-march
http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/calendar-at-a-glance/
http://projectbritain.com/calendars/index.htm
http://chartsbin.com/view/2295
http://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/holidays-march.asp
Happy March!
betty jo
Happy Monday and Happy Homeschooling (or is it Happy Snow Day)!
https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2015/02/16/homeschool-humor-snow-day-edition-2/
Awesome List of FREE Resources for learning about the US Presidents on Presidents’ Day or any day!
https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2014/02/14/resources-for-presidents-day/