Holidays

Life-size Candy Land [|Reading Calendars] [|Reading Calendars] (updated) Almanacs: School Library Monthly
 * Holidays** **- Monthly Themes**


 * August**


 * September**

__Trivia Answers for calendar__ October 2: Holland, Michigan, which was founded in 1847 by Dutch immigrants and site of an annual tulip festival. The windmill was dismantled in Vinkel, Holland, and reassembled in Holland, Michigan, in 1965. October 8: Australian Ken Warby broke the world water speed record by traveling 316.89 mph in his Spirit of Australia hydroplane. October 10: Mosquitoes October 20: The smallest designated unit of time – equivalent to .000000000000000000000001 second. That’s right; it’s with 23 zeroes!
 * October**

**Halloween** (includes "Who Stole the Candy..." game) Halloween ideas Halloween web hunt


 * November**

__Picture Book Month: "PB" Challenge print-outs__

**Thanksgiving** Scholastic's Thanksgiving Web Quest Grade 4 - Quiz yourself Grade 4 - Funny Fill in Grade 5 - Web QUest

Christmas Activities
 * December**

Reading Calendar Trivia Answers January 7: Alexandre Godefoy in 1890 January 17: French fries January 24: the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth [|New Year's and Winter Activity Links]
 * January**

February 10: 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball February 25: North America
 * February**

Poetry Palette is a collection of words about favorite foods, colors, toys, movies, books One Zillion Valentines: video

St. Patrick's Day Readers' Theater Early Childhood Lessons St. Patrick's Day videos CyberHunt
 * March**
 * St. Patrick's Day **

April Reading Calendar Trivia: April 15: H & R Block Lang, J. Stephen. (1997) The Big Book of American Trivia. Carol Stream: IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. April 20: Edgar Allen Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1841 (2000 Librarian’s Engagement Calendar and Almanac) April 23: Gottlieb Daimler Quiz Quest 2. (2007) Boston, MA: Kingfisher. April 27: 1937 (2000 Librarian’s Engagement Calendar and Almanac) April Fool's Day lessons http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/04/april_fools_day.html
 * April**


 * May**

Summer Reading lists: Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com/summerreading/pdfs/SummerChallenge2010BookList.pdf?eml=TNL/e/20100429/6-8
 * June**