INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Learning Through The Days, a fun and easy way to learn with your kids!
My goal is to give you 3-5+ resources you can use each week. Most of these resources will be short YouTube videos, this is done on purpose because I want this to be an easy resource guide for you, one that doesn’t need much planning on your part.
While I have watched all of the videos in this resource guide I would still highly recommend proof watching the videos before watching them with your children. Because these are mostly history videos there will at times be violence and other themes in some of the videos that people may not be comfortable sharing with their children.
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January
1 – New Years
January 6, 1412 – Joan of Arc born
January 8, 1935 – Elvis Presley born
January 15, 1535 – Henry VIII became Supreme Head of the Church in England
January 15, 1929 – Martin Luther King Jr. birthday
Read I Am Martin Luther King Jr.
January 15, 1559 – Elizabeth Tudor was crowned as Queen Elizabeth I
January 17, 1706 – Benjamin Franklin birthday
January 18, 1882 – A. A. Milne birthday
Read Winnie-the-Pooh.
January 19, 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe birthday
Read some of his poetry.
January 20, 1981 – Ronald Reagan became president of the United States at the age of 69
January 23, 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell became America’s first woman doctor
Read Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?.
January 24, 1848 – The California gold rush begins
January 26, 1788 – the British established a settlement at Sydney Harbor in Australia as 11 ships with 778 convicts arrived
January 27, 1756 – Wolfgang Mozart birthday
January 27, 1832 – Lewis Carroll birthday
Read Alice in Wonderland or listen to Jabberwocky:
January 31, 1919 – Jackie Robinson birthday
Read I Am Jackie Robinson.
February
February 2 – Groundhog Day
February 3, 1894 – Normal Rockwell born
Read Who Was Norman Rockwell.
February 3, 1943 – the four chaplains of the ship Dorchester gave up their life jackets for others
February 4, 1902 – Charles Lindbergh born
February 4 – Sri Lanka Independence Day
February 4, 1913 – Rosa Parks Born
February 5, 2019 – Chinese New Year
February 6, 1895 – Babe Ruth born
Read Who Was Babe Ruth.
February 7, 1812 – Charles Dickens born
February 8, 1828 – Jules Verne born
February 11, 1847 – Thomas Edison born
February 11, 1990 – Nelson Mandela was released from prison
February 12, 1809 – Abraham Lincoln born
February 14 – Valentine’s Day
February 15, 1564 – Galileo birthday
February 19, 1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus born
February 22, 1732 – George Washington born
February 23, – George Fredric Handel born
February 26, 1802 – Victor Hugo born
Les Misérables was one of the books written by Victor Hugo.
February 27, 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born
Read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poetry.
February 27 – Dominican Republic Independence Day
Leap Year
March
March 1 – Bosnia and Herzegovina Independence Day
March 2nd, 1904 – Dr. Seuss born
March 2nd, 1969 – the first Concorde flight took place
March 3rd, 1847 – Alexander Graham Bell born
March 6, 1474 – Michelangelo born
March 14, 1879 – Albert Einstein birthday
March 14 – Pi Day
March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day
March 19, 1813 – David Livingstone born
Read David Livingstone: Africa’s Trailblazer.
March 24, 1874 – Harry Houdini born
March 26, 1874 – Robert Frost birthday
March 30, 1853 – Vincent Van Gogh birthday
March 31, 1732 – Franz Joseph Haydn born
March 31, 1685 – Johann Christian Bach born
Good Friday & Easter
Easter usually occurs April but the odd time it will be in March. Because it is not on a set date I’ve set it apart on it’s own.
Here’s a list of Good Friday and Easter dates for the next few years:
2020:
Good Friday: April 10
Easter: April 12
2021:
Good Friday: April 2
Easter: April 4
2022:
Good Friday: April 15
Easter: April 17
April
April 2, 1805 – Hans Christen Anderson born
April 6, 1483 – Raphael born
7 – William Wordsworth
April 12, 1916 – Beverly Cleary born
Read some of Beverly Cleary’s books!
April 15, 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci born
April 15, 1912 – The Titanic sank
April 16, 1867 – Wilbur Wright born
April 18, 1775 – The Midnight Ride
April 18, 1906 – The San Francisco Earthquake struck at 5:13 a.m
Read Earthquake in the Early Morning.
April 20, 1889 – Adolf Hitler born
April 21, 1926 – Queen Elizabeth II born
April 22 – Earth Day
April 23, 1564 – William Shakespeare born
April 27, 1791 – Samuel F.B. Morse born
April 30, 1789 – George Washington became the first U.S. President
May
May 1 – May Day
May 7, 1812 – Robert Browning birthday
May 7, 1833 – Johannes Brahms birthday
May 7, 1840 – Peter (Pyotr) Ilyich Tchaikovsky birthday
May 12, 1812 – Edward Lear birthday
May 12, 1820 – Florence Nightingale birthday
May 15, 1856 – L. Frank Baum birthday
Read The Wizard of Oz.
May 15 – Chocolate Chip Day
May 21, 1844 – Henri Rousseau birthday
May 22, 1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle birthday
23 – World Turtle Day
May 24, 1819 – Queen Victoria birthday
May 25, 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson birthday
Read poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
May 31, 1819 – Walt Whitman birthday
June
June 5, 1783 -The first sustained flight occurred as a hot-air balloon was launched in France, by Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier.
June 6, 1944 – D-Day
June 7, 1848 – Paul Gauguin born
June 9, 1672 – Peter I (Peter the Great) born
June 11, 1864 – Georg Richard Strauss born
June 12, 1929 – Anne Frank born
June 27, 1859 – Mildred J. Hill, the composer for the Happy Birthday tune was born
June 27, 1880 – Helen Keller born
June 28, 1919 – The signing of the Treaty of Versailles officially ending World War I
July
July is World Watercolor Month! I love this watercolor book.
July 1 – Canada Day
July 1, 1961 – Princess Diana birthday
July 4 – Independence Day
July 7 – World Chocolate Day
Eat some chocolate or bake something with chocolate in it! Curious if white chocolate counts as chocolate? Watch this video:
July 11 – E. B. White birthday
You can read anything by E. B. White but our family favorite of his is Charlotte’s Web.
July 11 – Cheer Up the Lonely Day
Draw someone who needs cheering up a card. We love Art for Kids Hub for this kind of thing.
July 12 – Julius Caesar birthday
July 15 – Rembrandt birthday
July 17 – World Emoij Day
Draw an emoji! You can check out more here.
July 18 – Nelson Mandela birthday
July 24 – Amelia Earhart birthday
July 28 – Beatrix Potter birthday
Read some Peter Rabbit, we love the the Beatrix Potter Treasury.
August
August 1 – William Clark birthday
August 6 – Sir Alexander Fleming birthday
August 6 – Andy Warhol birthday
Make some Andy Warhol inspired art, here’s a fun tutorial.
August 13 – Annie Oakley birthday
August 15 – Napoleon Bonaparte birthday
August 15 – Julia Child birthday
Read Julia, Child and make something in the kitchen.
August 17 – Davy Crockett birthday
August 18 – Meriwether Lewis birthday
August 19 – Orville Wright birthday
August 19 – Coco Chanel birthday
August 26 – Katherine Johnson birthday
Read Counting on Katherine.
August 27 – Mother Teresa birthday
September
September 2, 1666 – The Great Fire of London begins
September 5 – Jesse James birthday
September 7 – Queen Elizabeth I birthday
September 14, 1741 – Composer George Frederick Handel finished Messiah after working on it nonstop for 23 days.
September 16, 1620 – The Mayflower ship departed from England, bound for America.
September 26 – Johnny Appleseed birthday
October
Canadian Thanksgiving – held on the second Monday of the month
October 1, 1908 – Model T car goes on sale for the first time
October 2, 1968 – California’s Redwood National Park was established
October 8, 1871 – The Great Fire of Chicago erupted
October 13, 1884 – Greenwich was established as the universal time from which standard times throughout the world are calculated
October 21, 1879 – Thomas Edison successfully tested an electric incandescent lamp with a carbonized filament at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, keeping it lit for over 13 hours.
October 23 – Alfred Nobel birthday
October 25 – Pablo Picasso birthday
Create a piece of art like Picasso.
October 31 – Halloween
October 31, 1941 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial was completed
November
American Thanksgiving
November 4, 1922 – King Tut’s tomb was discovered at Luxor, Egypt
November 5th – Guy Fawkes Day
November 7 – Marie Curie birthday
November 7, 1885 – Canada’s first transcontinental railway, the Canadian Pacific, was completed in British Columbia
November 8, 1895 – X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen
November 9, 1989 – The Berlin Wall was opened
November 10, 1871 – Explorer Henry M. Stanley found missionary David Livingstone at Ujiji, Africa. Stanley began his search the previous March for Livingstone who had been missing for two years. Upon locating him, he simply asked, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
Read David Livingstone: Africa’s Trailblazer.
November 10 – Martin Luther’s birthday
November 11 – Remembrance Day
November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson birthday
Read A Child’s Garden of Verses.
November 14 – Claude Monet birthday
November 14, 1889 – Newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set out from New York to beat the record of Jules Verne’s imaginary hero Phileas Fogg, who traveled around the world in 80 days. Bly (pen name for Elizabeth Cochrane) returned 72 days later to a tumultuous welcome in New York.
November 18 – Carl Maria von Weber birthday
November 27 – Anders Celsius birthday
November 28 – John Bunyan birthday
Read Pilgrim’s Progress (or the younger version Little Pilgrim’s Progress).
November 29 – Louisa May Alcott birthday
Read Little Women.
November 29 – C. S. Lewis birthday
Read or watch The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
November 30 – Winston Churchill birthday
December
December 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back section of a municipal bus.
December 5 – Walt Disney birthday
December 6, 1917 – Two ships collided at Halifax, Nova Scotia, resulting in an explosion that killed more than 1,500 persons and injured 8,000.
December 7, 1941 – The U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was attacked
December 10 – Emily Dickinson birthday
December 13 – Emily Carr birthday
December 15 – Alexandre Gustave Eiffel birthday
December 15, 1964 – Canada adopted a new national flag featuring a red maple leaf on a white background.
December 16 – Ludwig van Beethoven birthday
December 25 – Christmas
Read the story of Jesus’ birth in Luke 2.
Here’s a look at the Christmas story according to kids:
December 25 – Sir Isaac Newton birthday
December 30 – Rudyard Kipling birthday
Read or watch The Jungle Book.