A Calendar of Holidays with Curricular Connections: 2007-2008
International Year of Astronomy (United Nations)
Year of Science 2009 (COPUS / Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science)
Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial - commemorates Henry Hudson's and Samuel de Champlain's explorations of New York in 1609, as well as the 1807 navigation of the Hudson River from New York to Albany using Robert Fulton's steamboat in 1807.
National Inventors Month (August)
First Day of Ramadan (21 August 2009)
National Library Card Sign-Up Month (September)
Prudence Crandall Day (3 September)
Patriot Day (11 September)
Hispanic Heritage Month (15 Sept. to 15 Oct.)
Yom Kippur (28 September 2009)
Rosh Hashanah (29 September - 1 October 2008)
Citizenship Day and Constitution Day (17 September); Constitution Week (17-23 September)
National Book Festival (26 September 2009)
National Book Month (October)
Earth Science Week (11-17 October 2009)
Teen Read Week (18-24 October 2009)
National Chemistry Week (18-24 October 2009)
National Mole Day (23 October, 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m.) - celebrates Avogadro's number
Daylight Savings Time Ends - "fall back" (1 November 2010)
Election Day (3 November)
Veterans' Day/Armistice Day (11 November)
Geography Awareness Week (15-21 November 2009)
Thanksgiving (27 November 2008)
Ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (6 December)
Bill of Rights Day (15 December)
Hanukkah (11-19 December 2009)
Christmas (25 December)
International Year of Chemistry
XXI Winter Olympic Games (Vancouver, BC)
International Space Station Completion
National Soup and Wheat Bread Month (January)
New Year's Day (1 January)
Emancipation Proclamation Day (1 January)
Connecticut Admitted to Union (9 January 1788)
National Handwriting Day (23 January 2009) /John Hancock birth date (23 January 1737)
TMA Geography Bee (13 January 2009)
Martin Luther King Day (19 January 2009)
Winnie-the-Pooh Day / A.A. Milne birth date (18 January 1882)
Holocaust Memorial Day - anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps (27 January)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart birth date (27 January 1756)
Black History Month (February)
Gale Free Teaching Resources - classroom activities, biographies, synopsis of selected literary works, historical timeline, quiz
Love Your Library Month (February)
Groundhog Day (2 February)
Nutmeg Book Awards Announced
Weatherperson's Day / John Jeffries birth date (5 February 1744)
TMA Science Fair (4 February 2009)
Charles Darwin's Birthday (12 February 1809)
Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (12 February 1809)
Chinese New Year (14 February 2010) - Year of the Tiger
Ferris Wheel Day / George Washington Gale Ferris birth date (14 February 1859)
Galileo Day / Galileo Galilei birth date (15 Feburary 1564)
National Engineers Week (15-21 Feburary)
Presidents' Day (15 February 2010)
Winter School Vacation (15-19 February 2010)
George Washington's Birthday (22 February 1732)
Women's History Month (March)
Read Across America Day/Dr. Seuss's Birthday (2 March)
Daylight Savings Time begins - "spring ahead" (14 March 2010)
Read An E-Book Week (8-14 March 2009)
Connecticut State Science Fair (9-13 March 2010)
Pi Day (14 March)
National Wildlife Week (National Wildlife Federation) (15-19 March 2010)
Vernal Equinox (20 March)
International Earth Day (20 March)
Passover (29 March - 6 April 2010)
School Library Media Month (April)
National Poetry Month (April)
Mathematics Awareness Month (April)
Connecticut Geography Bee (2 April 2009)
Regional History Day (4 April 2009)
Good Friday - No School (2 April 2010)
Easter (4 April 2010)
National Library Week (11-17 April 2010)
TMA Spring Vacation (19-23 April 2010)
Earth Day (40th Anniversary) (22 April)
Talk Like Shakespeare Day / William Shakespeare's Birth Date (23 April 1564)
National Middle School Science Bowl (30 April - 5 May 2009)
Law Day (1 May)
Connecticut Invention Convention (1 May 2010)
Cinquo de Mayo (5 May)
TMA Grandparents Day (7 May 2009)
Connecticut History Day (9 May 2009)
Children's Book Week (11-17 May 2009)
Mother's Day (9 May 2010)
Memorial Day (31 May 2010)
TMA Graduation & Last Day of School (18 June 2010)
National History Day (14-18 June 2009)
Father's Day (20 June 2010)
International Year of Chemistry
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