Where to Watch in Current Events
Upcoming events this school year that your classroom can plan for, adjust game lineups around, and challenge authors to write with.
JANUARY
1 America 250 ends 🇺🇸
5 National Bird Day 🦅
18 College Football Playoffs begin
MLK Jr. Day of Service
FEBRUARY
1 Mentoring month begins 💫
First day of Black History Month
3 Girls and Women in Sports Day
11 Women in Science Day
14 Super Bowl 61 in California
15 Presidents’ Day
Music in Our Schools
and Women’s History Month
2 Read Across America Day
14 Pi Day 🍕
16 March Madness brackets
APRIL
3 Women’s Final Four 🏀 begins
10 Siblings Day
15 World Art Day
24 Take your kids to work Day
30 Citizen Science Month ends
MAY
1 Asian American Heritage month
Military Appreciation month
5 YouthMADE Festival begins
Teacher Appreciation Day
10 Mother’s Day 💐
25 Africa Day 🇬🇭 🇿🇼 🇱🇸
31 Colombia presidential election 🇨🇴
JUNE
11 World Cup begins in North America
19 Juneteenth 🇺🇸
21 Father’s Day
23 Women in Engineering Day
27 Helen Keller Day
JULY
18 Nelson Mandela Day of service
19 National Ice Cream Day 🍦
26 Parents’ Day
AUGUST
4 National Night Out
9 Book Lovers Day 📚
11 Primaries in Connecticut, Minnesota,
Vermont, and Wisconsin
15 Indian Independence Day 🇮🇳
19 World Photography Day
SEPTEMBER
2 Estonia presidential election 🇪🇪
7 Grandparents’ Day
11 25th Anniversary of 9/11
17 🇺🇸 Constitution & Citizenship Day
21 World Gratitude Day
NOVEMBER
3 U.S. midterm elections
All House seats + 35 Senate seats
Thirty-six states vote for governor
11 Veterans Day / Remembrance Day
14 Walk to School Day
21 World Philosophy Day
27 Thanksgiving
DECEMBER
1 Read a New Book month begins
10 Nobel Prize day
Human Rights day
15 Bill of Rights Day
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