INTO THE CURRICULUM | SL M E V ENTS A L M A N AC
APRIL 2015
BULLETIN BOARD
OF THE MONTH
April is the 30th anniversary of School Library Month
(http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm)! Create a bulletin board
using the AASL theme “your SCHOOL LIBRARY
WHERE LEARNING never ends.” Feature photos of
students working and learning in the library. Add
quotes from students, teachers, and parents about
the importance of the library to learning. Grades
K-12.
I have no
computer
at home,
so I can
work
here!
—Jill
I get to TALK about
So much goes on
here... I can’t say
enough about it!
—Ms. Jones
my favorite books!
—David
My kids
love to
go to the
school
library!
—Mr.
Smith
▶Moon Phases

Full Moon – April 4

Last Quarter – April 11
New Moon – April 18

First Quarter – April 25
▶Flower of the Month: Daisy or Sweet Pea
▶Birthstone of the Month: Diamond
▶Defeat Diabetes Month
Defeat Diabetes Foundation; http://www.defeatdiabetes.org
▶Jazz Appreciation Month
▶Library Snapshot Day
http://www.ala.org
See the primer available for planning a Library
Snapshot Day for ideas to create a Snapshot Day
for your school library. This would be a great
way to promote the school library during School
Library Month. Prof.
http://www.ala.org/aasl/slm
Promote the theme “Your School Library,
Where Learning Never Ends” throughout
the month by showing, in multiple ways, how
the school library program and the school
librarian support, promote, and enable learning. See the infographic “School Librarians
Transform Learning” for talking points and
ideas (http://
www.ala.org/
aasl/sites/
ala.org.aasl/
files/content/
aaslissues/
advocacy/
AASL_Infographic_FINAL.pdf).
Also, see the infographic “Strong Schoool
Libraries Build Strong Students” (http://www.
ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslissues/advocacy/AASL_infographic_strongstudents-2013.pdf). Prof.
APRIL 1-4
▶National Week of the Ocean (March
29-April 4)
http://www.national-week-of-the-ocean.org
http://www.miaeyc.org
1 WEDNESDAY
▶April Fool’s Day
▶National Day of Hope
▶Birthday of William Harvey—1578-1657
▶First Bridge (Neponset River) Built in
Autism Society; http://www.autism-society.org
▶First Meeting of U. S. House of Represen-
▶Month of the Young Child
▶National Autism Awareness Month
▶National Child Abuse Prevention Month
http://www.preventchildabuse.org
▶National Garden Month
http://www.nationalgardenmonth.org
▶Pet First Aid Awareness Month
Pet Tech, Inc.; http://www.pettech.net
▶National Poetry Month
Academy of American Poets; http://www.poets.org
Make this part of School Library Month and join
with other libraries in celebrating National Poetry
Month 2015 (http://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/home). Start with “30 Ways to Celebrate”
(http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/94).
Grades K-12.
▶National Youth Sports Safety Month
▶Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
ASPCA; http://www.aspca.org
▶World Habitat Awareness Month
School Library Month
USA—1634
▶U. S. Mint Established—1792
▶Birthday of Frederic Auguste Bertholdi—
1834-1904
▶Richmond Bread Riot—1863
▶Birthday of Walter Chrysler—1875-1940
▶Easter Egg Roll on White House Lawn—
1877
▶Woodrow Wilson Asked Congress to
Declare War on Germany—1917
▶Birthday of Charles White—1918-1979
▶Argentina Seized Falkland Islands—1982
1943
3 FRIDAY
▶Good Friday
▶First American Circus—1793
▶Birthday of John Burroughs—1837-1921
▶Boston Public Library Funded—1848
▶Pony Express Established—1860
▶Fall of Richmond—1865
▶Birthday of Henry Robinson Luce—1898-
http://www.usbby.org/icbd.html
▶Birthday of Calvin Graham—1930-1992
▶Isle Royale National Park Established—
tatives in New York—1789
▶Battle of Five Forks Ended—1865
▶Birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff—1873▶Birthday of Lon Chaney—1883-1930
▶Battle of Okinawa Began—1945
2 THURSDAY
▶Maunday Thursday
▶International Children’s Book Day
▶Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
▶United Nations World Autism Awareness
Day
▶Birthday of Charlemagne—742-814
▶Ponce de Leon Landed in Florida—1513
(Pascua Florida Day)
▶Birthday of Giacomo Girolamo
Casanova—1725-1798
1967
1940
▶African Americans Ruled Eligible to Vote
by Supreme Court—1944
▶Marshall Plan Signed—1948
▶Birmingham Resistance—1962
▶First Woman Presided over Supreme
Court—1995
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▶Easter Sunday (April 5)
▶Bat Appreciation Week (April 5-11)
▶Explore Your Career Options Week (April
5-11)
In honor of School Library Month, provide information about becoming a school librarian; feature
books with links to libraries; have students create
tweets (to be sent by the school librarian) that tell
why they like their library; make videos of students
working in the library. Tell the school library story!
Prof. Grades K-12.
▶National Blue Ribbon Week (April 5-11)
http://wwwpreventchildabuse.com
▶National Public Health Week (April 5-11)
http://www.apha.org
▶Orthodox Holy Week (April 5-11)
▶Passover (April 4-11)
6 MONDAY
▶Birthday of Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)—
1483-1520
▶U. S. Senate Formally Organized—1789
▶Founding of the Mormon Church—1830
▶Birthday of Rose Schneiderman—18821972
▶Birthday of Lowell Thomas—1892-1981
▶First Modern Olympic Games—1896
▶Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
Reached the North Pole—1909
▶First U. S. Credit Union Law—1909
▶U. S. Declared War on Germany—1917
▶Birthday of Bruce King—1924-2009
▶First Airmail Service—1926
▶Birthday of Gerry Mulligan—1927-1996
▶Birthday of James Watson—1928▶Birthday of Andre Previn—1929-
APRIL 6
White House Easter
Egg Roll
The theme of the 2015 Easter Egg Rolll is “#GimmeFive”
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/
eastereggroll). Check out the
link for some fun facts and information. Grades K-12.
▶Scottsboro Trial—1931
▶Teflon Invented by Roy J. Plunkett—1938
▶Operation Floating Chrysanthemum—
1945
▶First Tony Awards Presented—1947
As part of School Library Month, encourage
teachers to have students write and perform plays
about the library, books or stories they love, or
characters they relate to. Record them and post
them for others to enjoy. Have your own Tony
Awards! Grades K-12.
▶Space Shuttle Flight 11 (STS 41C-11)
Launched—1984
▶Democracy Suspended in Peru—1992
▶Plane Carrying Presidents of Rwanda and
Burundi Shot Down—1994
7 TUESDAY
▶World Health Day (Also United Nations
World Health Day)
American Association for World Health; www.
who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2014/en/
index.html
▶Birthday of El Greco—1541-1614
▶New York Slave Revolt—1712
▶Birthday of William Rufus DeVane
King—1786-1853
▶Birthday of David Grandison Fairchild—
1869-1954
▶Birthday of Walter Winchell—1879-1972
▶Battle of Lys River—1918
▶Birthday of Francis Ford Coppola—1939▶World Health Organization Founded—
1948
▶First Radar Signal Bounced Off the
Sun—1959
8 WEDNESDAY
▶Birthday of Gautama Buddha—563 B.C.483 B.C.
▶Birthday of Lewis Morris—1726-1798
▶First Synagogue Founded in U. S.—1730
▶Birthday of William Williams—1731-1811
▶Birthday of Elizabeth Bloomer Warren
Ford—1918-2011
▶Birthday of Ruth Gaines-Shelton—1872-
1932
▶17th Amendment Ratified—1913
▶Congress Approved Works Progress
Administration—1935
▶Birthday of Seymour Hersh—1937▶First Intercollegiate Rodeo—1939
▶Last Session of the League of Nations—
1946
▶Steel Mills Seized by U. S. Government—
1952
▶Poll Tax Outlawed—1966
▶Hank Aaron Hit 715th Home Run Breaking
Babe Ruth’s Record—1974
▶Voyageurs National Park Establishd—1975
▶Death of Ryan White—1990
9 THURSDAY
▶LaSalle Reached Mississippi—1682
▶Birthday of Eadweard Muybridge—18301904
▶Lee Surrendered to Grant at Appomattox
Ending Civil War—1865
▶Birthday of Charles Proteus Steinmetz—
1865-1923
▶Civil Rights Bill Passed—1866
▶Birthday of Paul Robeson—1898-1976
▶Birthday of J. William Fulbright—19051995
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First Public
Tax-Supported
Library (New
Hampshire)—1833
Another way to focus on School
Library Month is to have students find out more about how
libraries (including their school
library) are supported. Have
them consider questions such
as: Why were libraries started?
What is the concept of common
good? What would happen if
there were no libraries? Why
are libraries important? What is
the library of the future? Grades
5-12.
▶Marian Anderson Performed Easter
Concert—1939
▶Fall of Bataan in Philippines—1942
▶CORE Sent to South to Test Interstate Bus
Travel—1947
▶Texas Panhandle Tornado—1947
▶Winston Churchill Named Honorary U. S.
Citizen—1963
▶Soyuz 35 Launched—1980
▶General Noriega Convicted of Drug
Trafficking—1992
10 FRIDAY
▶Commodore Perry Day
▶Salvation Army Founder’s Day
▶Birthday of Hugo Grotius—1583-1645
▶Robert Gray (U. S.) Circumnavigated
Earth—1790
▶Birthday of Matthew Perry—1794-1858
▶Birthday of Lew Wallace—1827-1905
▶Birthday of William Booth—1829-1912
▶Birthday of Joseph Pulitzer—1847-1911
▶American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals Chartered—1866
▶Brahms’ Requiem Premiered—1868
▶Birthday of Frances Perkins—1880-1965
▶First PGA Golf Championship—1916
▶Bataan Death March Began—1942
▶Odessa Retaken—1944
▶Slavery Abolished in District of
APRIL 12-18
Columbia—1862
National Library Week
American Library Association; http://www.ala.
org/nlw/
Celebrate “Unlimited possibilities@ our
library®” (http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek).
David Baldacci will serve as Honorary Chair.
Celebrations include National Library
Workers Day (Tuesday, April 14); National
Bookmobile Day (Wednesday, April 15); and
Celebrate Teen Literature Day (April 16).
Grades K-12.
APRIL 12-18
▶Consumer Awareness Week (April 18-23)
▶National D.E.A.R. Day (Drop Everything
and Read Day (April 12)
http://www.dropeverythingandread.com
Sponsors are encouraging this celebration be
extended to a full month—another great way to
celebrate School Library Month. Get the entire
school involved and take time today to read!
Grades K-12.
▶National Volunteer Week (April 12-18)
http://www.pointsoflight.org/signature-events/
national-volunteer-week
▶Week of the Young Child (April 12-18)
http://www.naeyc.org/woyc
13 MONDAY
▶National Credit Education Week (April
17-23)
http://www.collector.com
▶National Women’s Health Week (May
12-18, 2015 )
▶Birthday of Thomas Jefferson—1743-1826
▶First Elephant Brought to U. S.—1796
▶Birthday of F. W. Woolworth—1852-1919
▶Birthday of Butch Cassidy—1866-1909
▶Air Brake Patented—1869
▶Founding of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art—1870
▶Birthday of Alfred M. Butts—1899-1993
▶Birthday of Madalyn Murray O’Hair—
1919-1995
▶Birthday of Ben Nighthorse Campbell—
1933-
▶Birthday of Bill Conti—1942▶Birthday of Max M. Weinberg—1951▶Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Released—
1962
▶End of First Baseball Strike—1972
▶Great Chicago Flood—1992
14 TUESDAY
▶Pan American Day
▶Honduras: Dia Las Americas
▶Birthday of Christiaan Huygens—16291695
▶First American Abolition Society
Formed—1775
▶Pan American Union Formed—1890
▶Assassination of Abraham Lincoln—1865
▶Birthday of Anne Sullivan—1866-1936
▶Birthday of Arnold Joseph Toynbee—
1889-1975
▶Webster’s First Dictionary Published—
1828
▶Birthday of Sir John Gielgud—1904-2000
▶Taft Opened Baseball Season—1910
▶Campbell Became First American Air
Ace—1918
▶Grapes of Wrath Published—1939
▶First African-American Page in Senate
Appointed—1965
▶U. S. Bombed Libya—1986
15 WEDNESDAY
▶Income Tax Pay Day
▶National Bookmobile Day
▶Birthday of Wilbur Wright—1867-1912
▶Birthday of Jose de Diego—1866-1918
▶Birthday of Charlie Chaplin—1889-1977
▶Natural Bridge Monument Established—
1908
▶Birthday of Henry Mancini—1924-1994
▶Texas Chemical Explosion Disaster—1947
▶Apollo 16 Launched—1972
▶Death of Iqbal Masih—1995
▶Virginia Tech Shootings—2007
17 FRIDAY
▶Ellis Island Family History Day
http://www.ellisisland.org
▶National Haiku Poetry Day
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org
Work with teachers to have students write haikus
about the library and share them online so administrators, parents, and others can view. Grades 3-8.
▶Giovanni Verrazano Discovered New York
Harbor—1524
▶First Horse Imported to U. S.—1629
▶Birthday of Samuel Chase—1741-1811
▶Birthday of John Pierpont Morgan—18371913
▶Birthday of Walter Camp—1859-1925
▶American Samoa: Flag Day—1900
▶Birthday of Arthur Lake—1905-1987
▶Birthday of Teresa Needham—1912-1992
▶Mickey Mantle Hit Longest Home
Run—1953
▶Bay of Pigs Invasion—1961
▶Surveyor 3 Launched—1967
▶Cambodia Falls to Khmer Rouge—1975
▶Netherlands and Scilly Isles War Ended—
1986
http://www.ala.org
▶Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci—1452-
1519
▶Birthday of Charles Wilson Peale—17411827
▶First School for the Deaf Founded—1817
▶Birthday of John Munroe Longyear—
1850-1922
▶Birthday of Thomas Hart Benton—18891975
▶Birthday of Bessie Smith—1894-1937
▶Titanic Sank—1912
▶Birthday of Kim IL Sung—1912-1994
▶Birthday of Harold Washington—19221987
▶Belsen Concentration Camp Liberated—
1945
▶Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Line in
Baseball—1947
▶First Franchised McDonalds Opened—
1955
▶New Multi-planet Solar System Located—
1999
▶Boston Marathon Bombings—2013
16 THURSDAY
▶CelebrateTeen Literature Day
wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/
Celebrate_Teen_Literature_Day
Check out the list of ideas for celebrating this
day. Make it part of School Library Month and
communicate plans to the school community. Have
students feature favorite books, make displays,
give book talks. Prof. Grades 6-12.
▶Birthday of Hans Sloane—1660-1753
▶Birthday of Albert Blake Dick—1856-1934
▶Poland: Solidarity Granted Legal Status—
1989
▶Columbia Neurolab—1998
APRIL 14
National Library
Workers Day
http://ala-apa.org/nlwd/
Make this a day to thank those
who work in your library and
acknowledge their many contributions with administrators and
other decision makers. Make
it clear how they allow you to
better support student learning.
Prof.
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APRIL 19-25
▶Administrative Professionals Week (April
19-25)
▶Money Smart Week (April 18-25)
http://www.moneysmartweek.org/
teacher_resources
The American Library Association has teamed up
with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to help
consumers better manage their finances. Incorporate this into School Library Month as a way to help
families and students learn about money management. Grades K-12.
▶National Coin Week (April 19-25)
American Numismatic Association; http://www.
money.org/numismatic-events/national-coin-week.
aspx
▶National Park Week (April 18-26)
National Park Service; http://www.nps.gov/npweek/
APRIL 24
Act Established Library of
Congress—1800
Share information about the Library of
Congress and locate photos from school
libraries of
the past, like
this one from
Schenectady,
NY (http://
www.loc.
gov/pictures/
resource/
fsa.8d39396/),
and have students discuss what is similar
and different then and now. What do they
have in their library that students in 1943
did not have? What do they like about
their library of today? Grades K-5.
20-24)
National Program for Playground Safety; http://
www.uni.edu/playground
20 MONDAY
▶Boston Marathon
▶Birthday of Daniel Chester French—18501931
▶Birthday of Holland Smith—1882-1967
▶Birthday of Adolf Hitler—1889-1945
▶Birthday of Joan Miró—1893-1983
▶Radium Isolated by Curies—1902
▶Ludlow Mine Incident—1914
▶Electron Microscope First Demonstrated—
1940
▶Russians Fired on Berlin—1945
▶Birthday of Luther Vandross—1951-2005
21 TUESDAY
▶Kindergarten Day
This is always a great opportunity to build bridges
from the library to the youngest of the school community and their parents. Another perfect tie-in
to School Library Month… share the celebration.
Grades Pre-K.
▶Traditional Birthday of Rome—753 B.C.
▶Birthday of Friedrich Froebel—1872-1952
▶Birthday of John Muir—1838-1914
▶Birthday of Max Weber—1864-1920
▶Copernicus, OAO 4 Launched—1972
22 WEDNESDAY
▶Earth Day (Traditional)
http://www.earthday.net
▶Administrative Professionals Day
This is also Administrative Professionals Week!
Be sure to show your appreciation for your
administrator with connections to the library. It is
an important connection to make during School
Library Month! Prof.
▶Birthday of Isabella I of Spain—1451-1504
▶Birthday of Immanuel Kant—1724-1804
▶“In God We Trust” Adopted by
Mint—1864
▶Birthday of Nikolai Lenin—1870-1924
▶Oklahoma Land Rush Began—1889
▶Theodore Roosevelt Began Recruiting
Rough Riders—1898
APRIL 26-30
▶Birthday of William Randolph Hearst—
27 MONDAY
▶Death of Ferdinand Magellan—1521
▶Birthday of Samuel Morse—1791-1872
▶Birthday of Ulysses S. Grant—1822-1885
▶Explosion of the Sultana—1865
▶Birthday of Walter Lantz—1900-1994
▶Birthday of Coretta Scott King—1927-
▶Birthday of Aleksandr Nikolaievich—
2006
▶Birthday of Casey Kasem—1932-2014
▶Death of Camille Nickerson—1982
28 TUESDAY
▶Birthday of James Monroe—1758-1831
▶Maryland Ratified Constitution—1788
▶Birthday of Mifflin Wister Gibbs—18281915
▶Birthday of Elva S. Smith—1871-1965
▶Execution of Benito Mussolini—1945
▶First Tourist in Space—2001
29 WEDNESDAY
▶Birthday of Oliver Ellsworth—1745-1807
4
▶National Playground Safety Week (April
1863-1951
1818-1881
▶Birthday of Duke Ellington—1899-1974
▶Challenger Launched—1985
▶Los Angeles Riots—1992
30 THURSDAY
▶Poem in Your Pocket Day
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406
▶Birthday of William Lilly—1602-1681
▶Washington Inaugurated as President—
1789
▶Louisiana Purchase—1803
▶Louisiana Entered Union—1812
▶Birthday of Mary Scott Lord Dimmick
Harrison—1858-1948
▶Birthday of Ellis Wilson—1899-1977
▶First President Appeared on Television—
1939
▶Birthday of Michael J. Smith—1945-1986
▶U. S. Invaded Cambodia—1970
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▶Babe Ruth Made Pitching Debut—1914
▶Televised Army-McCarthy Hearings—
1954
▶Borge Ousland Traveled to North Pole
Alone—1994
23 THURSDAY
▶United Nations World Book and Copyright Day
▶Birthday of James Buchanan—1791-1868
▶Birthday of Stephen Douglass—18131861
▶Ft. Moore Established—1847
▶Birthday of Max Planck—1858-1947
▶Soyuz 10 Launched—1971
▶Top Quark Discovered—1994
24 FRIDAY
▶Teach Children to Save Day
http://www.aba.com/Engagement/pages/teachchildrentosave.aspx
▶Birthday of Edmund Cartwright—17431823
▶Birthday of Anthony Trollope—18151882
▶Birthday of George N. Bascom—18361862
▶Ireland Easter Rising—1916
▶China I Launched—1970
▶Failed Attempt to Rescue Iran Hostages—
1980
APRIL 30
DIA Diversity in
Action
El día de los niños/El día de los libros
Children’s Day/Book Day; http://dia.
ala.org
Día is sponsored by ALSC, a division
of the American Library Association,
as an enhancement of Children’s Day,
which began in 1925. It is a day to
bring attention to the importance
and well-being of children. In 1996,
nationally acclaimed children’s book
author Pat Mora proposed linking
the celebration of childhood and
children with literacy to found El día
de los niños/El día de los libros.