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 and create with.
JANUARY
1 America250 begins 🇺🇸
5 National Bird Day 🦅
19 College Football Championship
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
FEBRUARY
1 Every month Mentoring month 💫
First day of Black History Month
4 Girls and Women in Sports Day
6 Winter Olympics in Italy
8 Super Bowl 60 in San Francisco
11 Women in Science Day
16 Presidents’ Day
MARCH
1 First day of Music in Our Schools
and Women’s History Month
2 Read Across America Day
14 Pi Day 🍕
15 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 📣
JUNE
11 World Cup begins in North America
19 Juneteenth 🇺🇸
21 Father’s Day
23 Women in Engineering Day
27 Helen Keller Day
JULY
14 Bastille Day 🇫🇷
20 National Ice Cream Day 🍦
27 Parents’ Day
AUGUST
5 National Night Out
9 Book Lovers Day
19 World Photography Day
SEPTEMBER
7 Grandparents’ Day
17 Constitution Day
NOVEMBER
4 U.S. Election Day
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
19 College Football Playoff begins
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