April

The month of April celebrates these events:

Pets Are Wonderful Month      National Garden Month

Keep America Beautiful Month         National Humor Month

Mathematics Education Month     Month of the Young Child

 

First week is National Reading a Road Map Week

First week is National Straw Hat Week

First week is Egg Salad Week

Second week is National Library Week

Second week is National Garden Week

Second Week is National Guitar Week

Second week is Be Kind to Animals Week

Third week is National Police Week

Third week is Astronomy Week

Third week is National Volunteer Week

Third week is National Coin Week

Third week is Bike Safety Week

Fourth week is Forest Week

Fourth week is National TV-Free Week

Fourth week is Teacher Appreciation Week

1st            April Fool's Day

1st            National Sleep Day

1st            Sorry Charlie Day (Day to honor Charlie the Tuna)

2nd           International Children's Book day

2nd           American Daylight Saving Time begins

2nd           Green Day

2nd           National Peanut & Butter Day

3rd            American Circus Day

4th            NATO established  (in 1949)

3rd            National Find-A-Rainbow Day

5th            German-Americans Day

6th            Twinkies Birthday (introduction of "the cake" in 1930)

6th            Jump Over Things Day

6th            Army Day

7th            No Housework Day

7th            Museum Day

7th            World Health Day

7th            National Teacher Appreciation Day

8th            International Bird Day

9th            U.S. Civil War ends on this date - April 9, 1865

9th            Winston Churchill Day

10th          Anniversary of the Safety Pin (patented in 1849)

10th          National Sibling Day

10th          Golfer's Day

11th          Thomas Jefferson's Birthday (born in 1743)

12th          Look Up At The Sky Day

12th          Thank You School Librarian Day

13th          National Peach Cobbler Day

13th          Birth Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson (1743)

13th          Blame Someone Else Day

14th          National Pecan Day & Abraham Lincoln assassinated (1865)

15th          U.S. Income Tax Pay Day

15th          Remembrance Day

15th          Rubber Eraser Day

15th          Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (1912)

16th          National Karaoke Week

17th          Ford Mustang's Birthday (1964)

18th          Third World Day

18th          National Animal Crackers Day

19th          Garlic Day

19th          Revolutionary War began (1775)

20th          Astronomy Day

20th          Passover

21st          Good Friday

21st          National Secretaries Day

21st          Kindergarten Day (founded in 1837)

22nd         Earth Day  (first observed in 1970)

22nd         National Jellybean Day

23rd          National Picnic Day

23rd          Blue Day

25th          World YMCA Day

24th          National Puppetry Day

26th          Read Me Day

26th          Richter Scale Day

26th          National Pretzel Day

27th          Tell a Story Day

27th          National D.J. Day

28th          Costume Day

28th          Great Poetry Reading Day

28th          Texas Wildflower Day

30th          National Arbor Day

30th          National Honesty Day

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Poems: just a few of my favorites

Jellybeans:   little bit of this and that...fun pages

 

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