Financial Wellness Month http://cob.jmu.edu/econed/Elementary.htm
Lessons on Economics using children’s literature
International Creativity Month http://creativitymonth.com
National Hobby Month
National Hot Tea Month http://www.teausa.org
January 1 -10
January 1 Paul Revere’s Birthday
Betsy Ross’s Birthday
January 3 Alma Flor Ada’s Birthday
January 4 Phyllis Reynold Naylor’s Birthday
January 7 Day of Ashura (Islamic Holy Day) http://islam.about.com/od/otherdays/a/ashura.htm
January 15 Martin Luther King Jr,’s Birthday
January 16 Appreciate a Dragon Day http://tinyurl.com/7eh3mh
Kidsclick searches on Dragons
January 17 Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday
January 18 – 24th
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt for Happiness Week
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
January 18 Winnie the Pooh Day
January 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday
Penguin Awareness Day
January 26 Chinese New Year
100th Day of School
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/100th_Day/3.
January 27 Liberation of Auschwitz 1945
Janice Vancleave’s Birthday http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/jvc/
Beginning of Losar, New Year for Tibetan Buddhists
http://www.buddhapia.com/tibet/newyear.html
January 28 Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion, 1986
http://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html
January 29 Rosemary Wells’s Birthday
Even more special days and activities at::
http://www.schoollibrarymedia.com/almanacs/pdf/actalmJan.pdf
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