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Calendar for Community Partners
Monthly book titles, events, helpful tips, holidays and more!
A program of Funded in part by
Helpful Contacts: ICfL 325 W. State St. Boise, Idaho 83702 208-334-2150/1-800-458-3271 Fax: 334-4016 Libraries.idaho.gov Staci Shaw staci.shaw@libraries.idaho.gov 208-639-4178 Kristina Taylor kristina.taylor@libraries.idaho.gov 208-639-4136 Tina Schilling tina.shilling@libraries.idaho.gov 208-639-4154 My First Books Resources libraries.idaho.gov/rtm/my-first-books/ (Under Resources for MFB Participants) Abbreviations: MFB (My First Books) ICfL (Idaho Commission for Libraries) CP (Community Partner)
Helpful Links Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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Author pronunciations: Helpful Hints: Meet with your library partner to discuss distribution dates and
www.teachingbooks.net times. Be sure to address how you and your library partner will inform the parents
about their participation in My First Books this year. Be sure to discuss contingency
plans to address health and safety measures due to the pandemic and how you
Book jackets: will inform parents about participation in the MFB program this year. Double-
www.librarything.com check enrollment numbers for each age group and give to library ASAP.
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Data and statistics:
www.idahovoices.org/
research/kids-count
Early literacy resources:
Read to Me: 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
libraries.idaho.gov/rtm/
read-to-me-resources
DayByDayID.org
The Bookworm: (in English
and Spanish)
Libraries.idaho.gov/ 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
publications/bookworm
Songs, rhymes, fingerplays
videos:
www.youtube.com/Birth2Six
www.storyblocks.org 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
www.thelearninggroove.com
www.jbrary.com
www.spanishplayground.net 30 31
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Helpful Hints
Library Card Sign Up Month 1 2 3 4 5
Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept.
Meet with your library 15—Oct. 15)
partner to discuss Banned Books Week: Sept. 27–
distribution dates/times and Oct. 3
contingency plans to
address health and safety 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
measures due to the
pandemic.
—Address how you and
your library partner will
inform parents about
participation in MFB this 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
year.
—Confirm enrollment Grandparent’s
numbers for each age group Day
and send updated numbers
to your library partner
ASAP. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
International Day
Be sure to utilize the of Peace Native American
resources provided for Day
Spanish-speaking families:
Intro letter in Spanish; 27 28 29 30
Look ahead through this calendar to see all
Bookworms in Spanish;
Spanish translation of books.
the books and themes your library will be
sharing with your students. Be sure to read
the Helpful Hints for each month.
Timeless
Favorites
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Helpful Hints: International School 1 2 3
Meet with your library regarding Library Month
Idaho Family Reading Week (FRW) National Friends of
(Nov. 9—15) & possible Family the Library Week:
October 18 - 24
Literacy Event.
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The Very Hungry Caterpillar/
La oruga muy hambrienta,
by Eric Carle
Preschool
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Columbus Day
If You Give a 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Mouse a Cookie,
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Kindergarten
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Jumpstart Read
How many kids can you involve in
for the Record the reading of “Evelyn del Rey is
Moving Away”?
Frog and Toad Together, Halloween
by Arnold Lobel
Narrative Skills/
Family Reading Week
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Birth-2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Daylight Savings International
Time Ends Games Week:
November 3-9
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
“More, More, More,” Veteran’s Day
Said the Baby,
by Vera Williams
Election DayFamily Reading Week: “Fun & Games!” (Nov 9—15)
Idaho
Preschool
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt,
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
by Michael J. Rosen
Kindergarten
Thanksgiving
29 30 Helpful Hints: Promote your FRW Event: Fliers,
Native
Bookworm, stickers on children, emails to parents, American
posters/signs on doors of classroom/center—send Heritage and
How I Became a Pirate, something home each week! Picture Book
by Melinda Long Month
Letter
Knowledge
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Birth-2 Cultural Celebrations: 1 2 3 4 5
Las Posadas, Dec. 16—24
(Hispanic)
Chanukah, Dec. 10—Dec. 18
(Jewish)
Kwanzaa, Dec. 26—Jan. 1
(African-American)
Bear in a Square, 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
by Stella Blackstone
International
Preschool Human Rights
Day
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,
by Bill Martin, Jr.
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Kindergarten
Christmas Day
27 28 29 30 31
Helpful Hints:
This month may be filled with
special assemblies, concerts,
Alphabet Adventure, parties, etc. Check in with your
by Audrey Wood library partner regarding
distribution dates.
Writing/Use of
Print
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2
Whenever you have new children National Braille Literacy Month
enroll in your program, be sure to
give your library partner advance 100th Day of School: check
notice so they can bring enough district calendar for exact day
New Year’s Day
books for your new kids.
Baby Touch and Feel: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
First Words,
by Dorling Kindersley (DK)
Preschool
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
We Are in a Book,
by Mo Willems 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Kindergarten MLK, Jr. Day/
Idaho Human
Rights Day
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
We Don’t Eat
Our Classmates,
by Ryan T. Higgins
Nonfiction
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6
Children’s
Authors &
Illustrators
Week:
First week of
February Groundhog Day
Tails,
by Katrine Crow 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Preschool Chinese New
Year -Year of the
White Cow/Ox
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Wonderful Worms, Valentine’s Day
by Linda Glaser President’s Day
Kindergarten 21 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 African American Helpful Hints:
What if You Had
Animal Eyes?! History Month If you have special activities planned for Black History/American
by Sandra Markle International History/Friendship Month, check with your library partner to see if
Friendship Month they can bring in some age-appropriate books to feature in a
library display.
Phonological
Awareness
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Birth-2
1 2 3 4 5 6
Women’s Dr. Seuss’s
History Month Birthday/NEA
Read Across
America Day Idaho Day
(www.nea.org)
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Whose Toes Are Those?
by Jabari Asim
Preschool
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Daylight Savings
Time Begins St. Patrick’s Day
Sheep in a Jeep,
by Nancy Shaw 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Kindergarten
28 29 30 31
Helpful Hints: Let your library partner know your
Spring Break dates. Consider collaborating to plan
How Do You Wokka-Wokka? something for Día de los niños (Day of the Child)
by Elizabeth Bluemle on April 30.Vocabulary/
Earth Day
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
National Poetry
Helpful Hints: Month
Meet with your library partner to 1 2 3
School Library
plan how Month
parent surveys will be distributed and
National International
collected.Library
If you Week:
collect Apr 10-16
at least 75% of your
NAEYC Week offor theyour
Young Child:ICfL
Aprilwill
10-16 Children’s Book
parent surveys library, provide
(www.naeyc.org)
you with a free hardcover book for your Day
D.E.A.R./Beverly
classroom! Cleary’s BD, April 12 www.ibby.org
I Am a Tree/Soy un árbol, (www.dropeverythingandread.com)
by Elodie Pope 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
NAEYC Week of
the Young Child:
Preschool April 10-16
Easter (www.naeyc.org)
11 12 D.E.A.R./ 13 14 15 16 17
Beverly Cleary’s
BD
www.dropeverythingand National Library
read.com
Workers Day
Up, Down, and Around, Ramadan begins
by Katherine Ayres
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Kindergarten
Earth Day
25 26 27 28 29 30 National Poetry
Month
School Library
Miss Rumphius, Month
by Barbara Cooney El día de los National Library
niños/libros Week: April 5-9Summer Reading:
“Tails and Tales”
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Birth-2 Helpful Hints: 1
Students receive two books this month! In addition to the title listed to the left for each Asian/Pacific
age group, each child will get to select an additional book. Heritage
Be sure to get completed MFB parent surveys to the library so they can get their final Month
report in on time. Meet with your library to debrief. Begin promoting Summer Reading Free Comic Book
with your parents to help keep your children reading over the summer. Day
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Spot Loves Bedtime,
by Eric Hill
Teacher
Children’s Book
Appreciation
Week
Preschool Week
(May 3—9) Cinco de Mayo
(May 2-8)
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Mother’s Day
Froggy Goes to the Library,
by Jonathan London 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Kindergarten
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30
Library Lion, 31
by Michelle Knudson Library Deadline: MFB Final
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