Children's Activity Calendar June 2020
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Bold colored text indicates a live link. Click on the links to discover more information. For more programming ideas, visit ideas. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY demco.com/category/blog/. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Holiday National Eyewear Day: National Safety Month is Rick Riordan’s Birthday: Invite kids to pick from all about teaching children, LGBT Pride Month: Celebration Have you and your readers special eyewear and give as well as adults, how to Happy Book Birthday Check out Today’s list of Hug Your Cat Day: Or, discovered the amazing their favorite books “a Birthday be safe. Access helpful to The Unicorn Came 16 picture books that better yet, let the cat sleep stories penned by diverse new look.” You’ll also be resources and activities to Dinner by Lauren celebrate pride, and in your lap while you read! authors in the Rick Riordan the coolest teacher in the your school can use DeStefano, illustrated by create a fun, inclusive Presents imprint? So many school today if you switch throughout the year Gaia Cornwall book display. to read and love! your eyewear every hour from Teacher Planet. on the hour. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 World Oceans Day: Share National Weed Your Great Outdoors Month: The Mess That We Made National Ballpoint Pen Garden Day: Do you These 31 Fun Outdoor Stuart Gibbs’ Birthday: Magic Day: Surprise by Michelle Lord, illustrated Happy Book Birthday Day: Invite students to have a classroom or school Activity Ideas from Messy Enjoy a Spy School your students with these by Julia Blattman, for a to Sunrise Summer write stories or complete garden? Invite students Little Monster provide lots adventure from this 5 Magic Tricks Kids Can reminder of our impact by Matthew Swanson, classwork using a variety to help you weed the plot, of choices for having fun bestselling middle grade Do, guaranteed to surprise on the world’s oceans and illustrated by Robbi Behr of ballpoint pens in and send them home with author to toast his birthday! and delight. in the great outdoors all our responsibility toward various colors. some treats grown from month long. caring for all of the ocean’s the garden. inhabitants. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Puerto Rican Day Parade: National Fresh Fruit National Eat Your New Identity Day: “Is there Chris Van Allsburg’s Held in New York City, this and Vegetable Month: Vegetables Day: Invite Juneteenth marks something different about Happy Book Birthday Birthday: Play a round of festive celebration honors Invite students to create your veggie-chomping the freeing of slaves in our teacher today?” Fool to Already a Butterfly: Jumanji to celebrate the the 3.2 million inhabitants masterpieces incorporating students to join you in Texas and is celebrated your students by declaring A Meditation Story by birth of this celebrated of Puerto Rico and all real or artificial fruit, and crunching along to the nationwide. Share Floyd you’ve decided to change Julia Alvarez, illustrated picture book maker. Watch people of Puerto Rican display them around your lyrics of “Vegetables” Cooper’s Juneteenth for one thing about your by Raúl Colón out for wild animals and birth or heritage residing library to promote healthy by the Beach Boys, Mazie with your readers. identity. I wonder what tropical storms! on the U.S. mainland. food choices. Be inspired by promoting healthy eating you’ll choose! artist Sandra Suárez! and playing with your food. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Zoo and Aquarium Sonia Sotomayor’s National Food Truck Month: Many zoos and National Dairy Month: Birthday: Share Turning Day: Work with your Father’s Day: Share Side by aquariums have education Helen Keller’s Birthday: Celebrate cows by sharing Pages: My Life Story by administration to Side: A Celebration of Dads programs that teachers and Happy Book Birthday Honor the life of Helen Click, Clack, Moo: Cows Sonia Sotomayor, illustrated coordinate a school visit by Chris Raschka, and ask students can participate in to I See a Shadow by Keller, advocate for the That Type by Doreen by Lulu Delacre, the picture by some local food trucks readers about the special throughout the summer. Laura Breen blind and deaf, by sharing Cronin, illustrated by book autobiography of our for a fun community people in their lives. Help connect your students this brief video biography. Betsy Lewin. nation’s first Supreme Court meet-up with staff, and staff with opportunities justice of Hispanic descent. students, and families. in your area. 28 29 30 National Candy Month: National Camera Day: Happy Book Birthday Take a trip around the Purchase a handful of to Saving Lady Liberty: “It was June, and the world smelled of globe through this visually disposable cameras for Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for enticing article from the roses. The sunshine was like powdered your students to use to the Statue of Liberty by New York Times featuring photodocument a day in the Claudia Friddell, illustrated gold over the grassy hillside.” 33 Unique Treats from life of a kid at your school! by Stacy Innerst Around the World. — Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib Children’s Activity Calendar Children’s June 2020 © Demco, Inc. National Safety Month | Great Outdoors Month | National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month | Zoo and Aquarium Month | National Dairy Month | National Candy Month Written by @MatthewWinner Follow us on Twitter @demco.