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To the Farm
Horses, donkeys, cows that moo,
Chickens, kittens, piglets too,
Fish that swim down in the pond,
Ducklings quacking all day long.
All these animals you can see
If you go to the farm with me.
~ Author unknown
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Month/Week/Day/Word Celebration
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Be Kind to Animals Week
(May 3–9)
Celebrate 100 years of Be Kind to
Animals Week with lesson plans
on human–animal interaction:
http://tinyurl.com/pjfqa34.
Children’s Book Week
(May 4–10)
Visit http://bookweekonline.com
for information and resources
for celebrating Children’s
Book Week.
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Cinco de Mayo
Celebrate this Mexican
holiday with stories, music,
and food from Mexico.
Birthday Celebration
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May 2015
Mother’s Day
What did the digital
clock say to its mother?
Look, Ma! No hands.
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Grace Lin’s Birthday
Booktalk the Pacy Lin books to
your students in grades 3–5.
24
Mount St. Helens erupted
thirty-five years ago.
Display books on volcanoes.
25
Limerick Day
There once was a Martian named Zed
With antennae all over his head.
He sent out a lot
Of di-di-dash-dot
But nobody knew what he said.
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Arthur Dorros’s Birthday
Visit http://tinyurl.com/nj63tz4 for
lesson plans and activities related
to Dorros and his books.
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Candace Fleming’s Birthday
Memorial Day
Honor the men and women who
have died in war. Participate in
your community’s celebrations.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker was
published on May 26, 1897. Get
ready for summer by sharing
scary campfire stories with your
students.
Get ready for summer reading!
National Bike Month
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Get Caught Reading Month
Have students take selfies in their
favorite reading spots and post
them on a bulletin board.
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Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
May 2015
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
May Day
Make and fill May baskets.
Get ideas at http://tinyurl.com/
q6kfwu5.
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Word of the Month
Heroic: having or showing
great courage.
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National Physical Fitness
and Sports Month
Include quick energizer activities
during your library lessons.
Get ideas at http://tinyurl.com/
kmbs2c7.
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Josephine Baker Day
Play music by Baker and
share Jazz Age Josephine
by Jonah Winter.
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International
Headband Week
Provide students with plastic
headbands and a variety of
craft materials (e.g., washi tape,
ribbons, construction paper, pipe
cleaners) to personalize them.
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Asian-Pacific American
Heritage Month
Visit http://tinyurl.com/nrngsxh
for Asian American teaching
resources from the Smithsonian.
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15
Lewis and Clark began
their expedition on this
day in 1804. Booktalk several
books about their famous
adventure.
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L. Frank Baum’s Birthday
Get Wizard of Oz activities and
lesson plans from the St. Louis
Public Library: http://tinyurl.com/
q3j4vkv.
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It’s National Bike Month
Set a good example and
bike to work!
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s
Birthday
Dress up as Sherlock Holmes and
read aloud a mystery.
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John Muir founded the Sierra
Club on this day in 1892.
Check out John Muir:
America’s First Environmentalist
by Kathryn Lasky.
Get Caught Reading Month
Share poems from J. Patrick
Lewis’s collection Heroes and
She-roes: Poems of Amazing and
Everyday Heroes.
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Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund
Hillary became the first climbers
to reach the summit of Mount
Everest, in 1953. Visit http://tinyurl.
com/l398alc for Everest Facts
for Kids.
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SATURDAY
Mary Quattlebaum’s Birthday
Visit http://tinyurl.com/nadoljo
for resources and activities to go
with the Jackson Jones books.
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Eleanor Estes’s Birthday
Share Estes’s Ginger Pye.
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The first US nickel coin
was minted in 1866. Visit
http://tinyurl.com/pawa72g to
learn about its history.
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Margaret Wise Brown’s
Birthday
Share your favorite Margaret
Wise Brown book.
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“You can’t stay in your corner
of the Forest waiting for others
to come to you. You have to go
to them sometimes.”
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
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