April 2 – Autism Awareness Day
Here’s the link for an older post. Except for J and me being a few years older, the thoughts and opinions haven’t changed.
https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2013/04/02/autism-i-am-aware/
Usually I have the Special Days lists ready to go out by the 28th of the month before. However, with internet connection issues and an increase of family and homeschooling projects, I just have not been able to get the entire list completed. So … Here’s the beginning of the collection of themes, foods, historic and scientific anniversaries, awareness days, and famous birthdays for April, 2020. I hope to have the rest of the list ready to publish soon, but this will get us started on April fun and learning!
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
April’s Daily Specials (the * after the daily special means it does not always fall on the same date each year)
April 1
April 2
April 3
April 4
April 5
April 6
April 7
April 8
April 9
April 10
April 11
April 12
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://food.unl.edu/food-calendar
http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/calendar-at-a-glance/
https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/animal-holidays-celebrations/
http://chartsbin.com/view/2295
http://projectbritain.com/calendars/index.htm
Happy April!
betty jo
Happy Monday and Happy Homeschooling! Stay Well!
betty jo
And on top of all the craziness this week, now we add a Friday the 13th to the mix. Here’s some free cross curricula/multi grade level resources for a study all about Superstitions.
via Superstitions
Ah! Spring Cleaning … It’s that time of the year. Here’s some ideas and resources to turn spring cleaning into homeschooling lessons!
Hooray! It’s finally spring. Now if our weather would just act like it! So while we’re waiting for spring to actually make it’s appearance outside our door, we can get on that “Spring Cleaning” thing. Our house NEEDS it. Even though we “tidy” several times a day, it’s not deep, serious cleaning. The windows, walls, corners, and baseboards have been sadly neglected for several months.
I’ve found a couple of links to follow as guides as we work in some extra projects throughout the next week (or however long it takes).
Printable room by room cleaning check list (there’s some items here that I had not thought of) http://richlyrooted.com/2014/03/deep-spring-cleaning-game-plan-with-printable-checklist.html
Some times it’s best to separate during clean up instead of all of us working in the same room. These task cards will work well for when we aren’t working well together. These also will work well all through the year…
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