A Couple of our readers have asked us how we use our calendar posts for school. These posts began, and have grown, simply because it was interesting to see what events were occurring on a particular day. We don’t celebrate everyday – but we could!!! At the beginning of each month we print out a new calendar. Then we read through the blog post and pick the days that we would like to celebrate. We write those days out onto our calendar and pop the calendar onto the fridge. On the particular date we visit the website and have a look at the links or create some fun to post on our blog, like our recent Shakespeare post on his birthday.
If you would like to now more about how we use our calendar for school as a fabulous resource of famous people and events then do pop over to the Almanac page for an explanation… Meanwhile, we hope you have a marvelous May!!!
- 1 May 2012: Save the Rhino Day.
- 2 May 1844: Elijah McCoy Inventor (1844 – 1929).
- 4 May 1971: GreenPeace launched.
- 4 May 2012: National Weather Observer’s Day.
- Se7en Make a Weather Station.
- Making a Daily Weather Chart in Se7en Steps.
- Weather Watch from Scholastic.
- Weather Whizzkids – great stuff!!!
- A list of weather Lesson Plans at Discovery Education.
- Weather Lesson Links from The Teachers Guide.
- 4 May 2012: International Firefighter’s Day.
- 4 May 2012: World Asthma Day.
- 5 May 2012: Cinco De Mayo
- 5 May 2012: Children’s Day (Japan).
- 7 May 1937: Hindenburg Disaster
- The Hindenburg at Awesome Stories.
- The Hindenburg Disaster at Kids.net.au
- The Hindenburg disaster on HowStuffWorks.
- 7 May 1840: Tchaikovsky’s Birthday (1840 – 1893).
- 7 May 2012: Space Day.
- 8 May 1884: Harry Truman’s Birthday (1884 – 1972).
- 8 May 1945: VE Day.
- What is VE Day? From Kids.net.au
- Have a look at a newspaper of the day from Exploring 20th Century London.
- Children of World War II on the History Learning Site.
- 11 May 1904: Salvador Dali’s Birthday (1909 – 1989).
- 11 May 1812: Edward Lear’s Birthday (1812 – 1888).
- 12 May 2012: Kite Day.
- We made kites for a Dr. Seuss Party and we got the plans from the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.
- Kite Trivia from kites for kids.
- Flight tips and basics from breeze chasers.
- Professor Kite.
- The virtual Kite Zoo.
- How Does a Kite Fly.
- A nice resource for little people with kites from round the world.
- 12 May 1820: Florence Nightingale’s birthday (1820 – 1910).
- Visit the Florence Nightingale Museum.
- BBC schools Famous People.
- And Woodlands-Junior are totally fabulous for all the Florence Nightingale facts…
- This is lovely a click-through story of her life.
- Florence Nightingale paper doll.
- 14 May 1847 : Webster’s Dictionary First Published.
- 14 May 1804: Lewis and Clarke Began their expedition (1804).
- These worksheets form Class Brain are brilliant nd we always use them, whenever we study Lewis and Clarke.
- Lewis and Clark Map from EdHelper.
- An article from Time for Kids
- Lewis and Clark resources from around the web.
- This page from PBS is packed with fabulous resources.
- This site has great activities.
- Nice interactive link from National Geographic.
- 14 May 1727: Thomas Gainsborough (artist) born, 1727
- Garden of Praise has some great links: puzzles, word searches and worksheets.
- Enchanted Learning Coloring Pages: Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy.”
- The Web Museum in Paris has a biography and a collection of his paintings to look at.
- A Wikipedia Biography and gallery of paintings.
- 15 May 1856: L.F. Baum’s Birthday (1856 – 1919).
- Amazing Moms has a Wizard of Oz party!
- Classroom activities from thewizardofoz.info
- Coloring pages from DLTK
- Craft Ideas from DLTK
- Family Crafts has a list of activities.
- 16 May 2012: National Chocolate Chip Day.
- 17 May 1874: First Kentucky Derby.
- 18 May 2012: International Museum Day.
- Visitor Information for Cape towns Collection of Museums.
- What’s on at Cape town Museums Today… The Treasure Hunt is next Saturday because of the storm.
- This is a great spot packed with online museum goodies from museums all over the U.K. – My kids love this site and roam here for hours.
- Create Your Own Museum from Wikihow.
- Create your own art collection form the Tate Modern.
- 18 May 1980: Mt. St. Helens Erupted.
- 19 May 2012: Circus Day.
- Se7en’s Quick and Easy Circus Party.
- Katherine Marie is having a Clown Week this week…so cool.
- Se7en’s Quick and Easy Circus Party.
- A fun circus party from Amazing Moms.
- Tightrope Peg Man from Family Fun
- Circus printables from Family Fun.
- Quick and Easy Balloon Cupcakes from Family Fun.
- Circus Crafts from Show Mom The Money.
- Classroom resources from Teaching Heart.
- More circus crafts from Kids Crafts Magazine.
- 20 May 1927: Amelia Earheart’s TransAtlantic Flight.
- 21 May 1844: Henri Rousseau’s Birthday (1844 – 1910).
- 21 May 1927: Lindbergh Flight Day.
- 21 May 1799: Mary Anning’s Birthday (1799 – 1847).
- 22 May 2012: International Jazz Day
- 22 May 1570: First Atlas Published.
- Se7en do Geography – Heaps of Resources.
- Wonderful, kid friendly – map links to die for from National Geographic.
- National Geographic World Atlas for kids – fun!!!
- Fact Monster Atlas for kids.
- Online Atlas of world History from TimeMaps – so cool!
- Se7en’s World wide Map in se7en Steps.
- The Whole Wide World in Se7en Steps.
- 22 May 1844: Mary Cassatt’s Birthday (1844 – 1926).
- 23 May 2012: World Turtle Day.
- 24 May 1883: The Brooklyn Bridge Opened in 1883.
- 24 May 1844: First Morse Code Message Sent.
- 25 May 2012 : Missing Children’s Day.
- Around the World.
- In Europe.
- And Madeleine…
- In our South African news today.
- The last book in this post is all called “Protecting the Gift.” Every woman in the world should read this book – really! Go and read our review…
- 26 May 2012: Blueberry Cheesecake Day.
- 26 May 1951: Sally Ride’s Birthday (1951 – ).
- 27 May 1907: Rachel Carson’s Birthday (1907 – 1964).
- 27 May 1964: Golden Gate Bridge Opened.
- 27 May : Masking Tape patented.
- 28 May 1959: MonkeyNauts Able and Baker in Space.
- 28 May 1859: Big Ben arrives in Westminster.
- 29 May 1953: Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest.
- 29 May 1917: John F. Kennedy’s Birthday.
- You can’t beat this list of links from About.com
- Time for Kids – of course!
- From Garden of Praise – with links and worksheets.
- Photo History.
- Great snippets, puzzles and games from Apples for the Teacher.
