WSRA Families and Literacy Committee Presents… The Calendar of Ideas for March 2020 Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
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Read A Different Pond, by Bao Phi.
Dr. Seuss’s Birthday Read a favorite, or try a new one like On Beyond Zebra!
8 Kenneth Grahame’s Birthday Have you read Wind in the Willows?
15 Check out Gayle E. Pitman’s Saving the Rainbow: The Story of Gilbert Baker and the Rainbow Flag.
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9 Read a graphic novel, such as Chad Sell’s The Cardboard Kingdom.
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Patricia MacLachlan’s Birthday Read Sarah, Plain & Tall, or try What You Know First. 10 Try nonfiction. Read What is Hip Hop? by Eric Morse.
16 Sid Fleishman’s Birthday He has many books. Try Jingo Django.
23 Pick up a copy of You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith.
Read The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty.
Wednesday
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17 It’s poetry time! With My Hands: Poems About Making Things By Amy VanDerwater. 24 Read Patrick McDonnell’s The Little Red Cat Who Ran Away and Learned His ABC’s (The Hard Way). 31
Thursday
Friday
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Dav Pilkey’s Birthday Choose one of his Dog Man series books.
11 Ezra Jack Keats’ Birthday Read Whistle for Willie. Do you want to learn how?
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Mem Fox’s Birthday Pick Time for Bed or another of her delightful books.
12 Virginia Hamilton & Carl Hiaasen Birthdays Try Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush or Hoot. 19
Make a card for a friend or relative.
Spring starts soon. Read Drawn from Nature by Helen Ahporasiri.
25 Kate DiCamillo’s Birthday Have you heard of her book Leroy Ninker Saddles Up?
26 Jerry Pallota’s Birthday Math time! Enjoy The Icky Bug Counting Book.
Saturday 6
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Family Reading Day Read Mo Willems’ I Lost My Tooth! Discuss teeth.
Women’s History Month Fly Girls: Daring Women Who Helped Win WWII by P. O’Connell Pearson.
13 Family Reading Day Discuss girls in sports after you read Laura Shovan’s Takedown.
14 Women’s History Month Read Who Says Women Can’t Be Computer Programmers? by Tanya Lee Stone. It’s Pi Day!
20 Family Reading Day Lois Lowrey & Bill Martin Birthdays Number the Stars, The Maestro Plays
21 Women’s History Month Read Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters by Andrea Beaty.
27 Family Reading Day What do you think of Mom’s joining the freedom movement in Supriya Kelkar’s book Ahimsa?
28 Women’s History Month Read A Lady Has the Floor by Kate Hannigan.
Read Cori Doerrfeld’s The Rabbit Listened, or write/make a thank you card.
It’s library time. Return your books, and check out an armful of new ones!
Read Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed.
Enjoy time learning, writing, and reading together as a family!