January events & lesson ideas

Month

Puzzle Month, according to Cassandra Barnett

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Weeks

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Jan. 11-17 - Idiom Week

Jan. 26 - Feb. 1 - Crayola Creativity Week  - also see the Crayola website for this event

Jan. 31 - Feb. 3 - Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

Days

January 1 - New Year's Day

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Jan. 22 - National Polka Dot Day (Minnie Mouse) - I have books about dots

Jan. 23 - National Handwriting Day 

Jan. 23 - National Pie Day (not to be confused with Pi Day)

Jan. 23 - This SHOULD be PBSD's 100th Day of School (2025-2026) if I counted correctly

Jan. 24 - International Day of Education

Jan. 24 - Belly Laugh Day

Jan. 24 - National Compliment Day

Jan. 24 - National Peanut Butter Day 

Jan. 27 - Auschwitz Liberation Day, Holocaust Memorial Day, International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust  Link

Jan. 28 - Library Shelfie Day (4th Wednesday)

Jan. 28 - National Kazoo Day (4th Thursday or near)

Jan. 29 - Puzzle Day, according to Cassandra Barnett & Brownielocks

Jan. 29 - Seeing Eye Dog Day

Other topics

Snow

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See Brownielocks for additional month-long, weekly, and daily celebrations for this month

My plans:

Jan. 1-2, 2026 (Th-F) - NO SCHOOL - New Year's Break 

Jan. 5-6, 2026 (M-T) - PD Days 

Jan. 7-13, 2026 (W-T) - New Year's Resolutions & Traditions, review rules, etc.  - DONE

Jan. 14-20, 2026 (W-T) - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lesson - DONE

Jan. 19, 2026 (M) - NO SCHOOL - MLK Day

Jan. 21  - (state Code Blue Drill will be on the 28th instead)

Jan. 21-27, 2026 (W-T) - 

Jan. 28 - State DESE Code Blue Drill!!!! (during testing?)

Jan. 28-Feb 3, 2026 (W-T) - revised schedule? Black History lessons (maybe Carter G. Woodson, father of BHM)