March Calendar for Educators

March Events
2008

This page includes Birthdays and Special Goings-On!
(Don't forget...the blue indicates a link to the WEB!!)
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We have put together a collection of activity & lesson ideas.
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Use this calendar in conjunction with our Daily Writing Prompts!

Also see our other March Lesson Plans, Thematic Units and Activities

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Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
						1 Iditarod Race Begins Visit our mini-unit Peace Corps Anniversary National Pig Day Peanut Lover's Day Share a Smile Day Yellowstone National Park Established, 1872
2 Dr. Seuss born, 1904	3 Patricia MacLachlan Erik Blegvad National Anthem Day Inventor Alexander Graham Bell born, 1847	4 First meeting of Congress, 1789	5 Boston Massacre, 1770 Dav Pilkey	6 Oreo Cookies FOR SALE! Sold for the 1st time in 1912. Mem Fox Artist Michelangelo born, 1475	7 Scientist Luther Burbank born, 1849 Telephone Patent Granted Chris Raschka	8 Working Women's Day Robert Sabuda
9 Daylight Savings Time Begins Explorer Amerigo Vespucci born, 1454 Barbie	10 Abolitionist Harriet Tubman Day Jack Kent 1st Paper Money Issued	11 Author Ezra Jack Keats born, 1916 Wanda Gag Jonathan London Johnny Appleseed Day	12 Commonwealth Day Girl Scout Day  Anniversary of the Death of Anne Frank, 1945 Carl Hiaasen Virginia Hamilton	13 Ellen Raskin Good Samaritan Day Uranus Discovered in 1781	14 Marguerite de Angeli Centennial Anniversary of the National Wildlife Refuge System Pi Day (links on Math page) Scientist Albert Einstein born, 1879 Casey Jones Purim Begins at sundown.	15 Absolutely Incredible Kid Day Julius Caesar Assassinated, 44 B.C. Ides of March
16 Sid Fleischman 4th President James Madison born, 1751 Palm Sunday	17 Kate Greenaway Wendall Minor Rubber Band Invented St. Patrick's Day	18 First Walk in Space Sparky the Fire Dog 22nd & 24th President Grover Cleveland born, 1837	19 Swallow's Return to San Juan Capistrano	20 Mitsumasa Anno Lois Lowry Louis Sachar Big Bird 1st Day of Spring	21 Children's Poetry Day National Teen-Agers Day Lisa Desimini Single Parents' Day Political Leader Benito Juarez born, 1806	22 Randolph Caldecott National Goof Off Day National Sing-Out Day United Nations World Water Day
23 Easter Toast Day Political Leader Patrick Henry declared, "Give me liberty...", 1775	24 Harry Houdini Exxon Valdez runs aground, 1989	25 Pancakes First Made Kate DiCamillo Sculptor Gutzon Borglum born, 1871	26 Make up Your own Holiday Day  Poet Robert Frost born, 1874 Jerry Pallotta	27 Alaska hit by 8.4 Earthquake, 1964 Dick King-Smith	28 "Greatest Show on Earth" formed, 1881 Doreen Cronin	29 Coca-Cola was Invented Armed Forces left Vietnam, 1973
30 Doctor's Day Alaska Purchased Pencil with Eraser Patented Artist Vincent van Gogh born, 1853	31 Beni Montresor First Map of the US Published Tater Day Mathematician Rene Descartes born, 1596

Special Goings-On
American Red Cross Month
Music in Our Schools Month
National Craft Month
National Drug & Alcohol Awareness Week (1st Week)
National Umbrella Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Noodle Month
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
National Sauce Month
National Women's History Month (Links below)
Youth Art Month

Newspapers in Our School Week (1st Week)
Return Those Borrowed Books Week (1st Week)
Bubble Gum Week (2nd Week)
National Procrastination Week (2nd Week)
Clean Your Closet Week (17th - 24th)
National Agriculture Week

National Women's History Month
A Look at Women's History Month by the National Women's History Project
Places Where Women Made History: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
The National Women's Hall of Fame
Women's History at About.com

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