Idea Calendar

So many grand things going on this month! Rally attention and add zest to the curriculum without sacrificing quality educational time. Dive into an activity of seasonal interest and your students (and you) will come up smiling...reconnected, refreshed, and renewed in enthusiasm for learning. Pick up a fresh new idea this month...they'll applaud till the very echo!

Simply click on daily calendar text below to find background information and related activities.

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	01 Bobby Fischer becomes world chess champion.	02 CBS Evening News becomes television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast	03 American Revolutionary War ends.	04 Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States	05 Muhammad Ali wins gold medal in boxing at Rome Olympics.	06 Explorer John C. Fremont arrives at Great Salt Lake.
07 Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.	08 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated.	09 Ruby Bridges - Notable Woman	10 Letitia Tyler dies.	11 Sir James Hopwood Jeans, British physicist	12 Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.	13 Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer
14 Mexican-American War: Winfield Scott captures Mexico City.	15 Tower Bridge in London - Int'l Landmarks Theme	16 Play-Doh is introduced to the world	17 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist	18 The New York Daily Times begins publishing.	19 Women's suffrage in New Zealand	20 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail.
21 Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor, First Lady	22 William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer	23 Lewis and Clark return from Pacific Northwest	24 The Honda Motor Company is founded.	25 The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era.	26 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.	27 Edgar Degas, French painter
28 Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author	29 NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.	30 Babe Ruth hits 60th home run