Home › Classroom Resources › Calendar Activities

Calendar Activities See All Calendar Activities

Not your everyday calendar, here you can find important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, all with related activities and resources that make them more relevant to students. View by day, by week, or by month.

  January, 2012  

SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT
1 Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.	2	3 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on this day.	4 Jacob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born today.	5	6 Two famous Smiths share this birthday.	7
8 On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born.	9	10	11 Amelia Earhart completed her solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland in 1935.	12	13	14
15 In 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this day.	16	17 Today is Benjamin Franklin's birthday.	18	19 Poet and author Pat Mora was born on this day in 1942.	20 On this day in 1910, animal rights activist Joy Adamson was born.	21
22 The "1984" Macintosh commercial aired today during Super Bowl XVIII.	23 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the US to earn a MD degree in 1849.	24 Gold was discovered in California in 1848.	25 Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759.   NCTE's Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award is announced today.	26	27 Today is the birthday of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland.	28 The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986.   Today, the American Library Association announces its annual book award winners.
29 Poe's "The Raven" was published in 1845.	30	31 Jackie Robinson was born on this day in 1919.

Types of Calendar Activities

• Authors & Texts

  Birthdays, publication dates, and more

  See All

• Historical Figures & Events

  Notable people and happenings in history

  See All

• Holidays & School Celebrations

  Special days and how to observe them

  See All

• Literacy-Related Events

  Celebrations that promote and encourage literacy

  See All