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Calendar for Community Partners Monthly book titles, events, helpful tips, holidays and more!
Helpful Contacts: My First Books Resources libraries.idaho.gov/rtm/my-first-books/ (Under Resources for MFB Participants) Library Partner: Email: Phone: Idaho Commission for Libraries 325 W. State St. Boise, Idaho 83702 208-334-2150/1-800-458-3271 Fax: 334-4016 Libraries.idaho.gov Staci Shaw, Youth Services Consultant staci.shaw@libraries.idaho.gov 208-639-4178 Kristina Taylor, Project Coordinator kristina.taylor@libraries.idaho.gov 208-639-4136 Abbreviations: MFB (My First Books) ICfL (Idaho Commission for Libraries) LP (Library Partner)
Helpful Links Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Author pronunciations:
www.teachingbooks.net Helpful Hints: Please visit https://libraries.idaho.gov/rtm/my-first-books/. Under “Program Resources” find
“Resources for Your Community Partner” and read through the listed documents. Jot down any questions you have
Book jackets: and share them with your library partner when you meet in person.
www.librarything.com
Early literacy resources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Read to Me:
libraries.idaho.gov/rtm/
read-to-me-resources
ID Early Learn. Guide.
healthandwelfare.idaho.gov
/services-programs/about- 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
idaho-early-learning-
eguidelines
DayByDayID.org Free Comic
Book Day 2021
Saroj Ghoting (rescheduled)
www.earlylit.net
Reading Rockets: 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
www.readingrockets.org/
audience/professionals/
preschool
Songs, rhymes, fingerplays:
www.youtube.com/Birth2Six
www.storyblocks.org 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
https://kcls.org/content/
www.thelearninggroove.com
www.jbrary.com
www.spanishplayground.net 31
29 30
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Helpful Hints
1 2 3 4
Library Card Sign Up Month
Meet with your library Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15—Oct. 15)
partner to discuss
Banned Books Week: Sept. 26– Oct. 2
distribution dates/times and
contingency plans to
address health and safety 7 10
5 6 8 9 11
measures due to the
pandemic. Bring this
calendar and the MFB
Labor Day
Distribution Planning Sheet.
—Address how you and
your CP will inform parents
about participation in MFB 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
this year.
—Confirm enrollment Grandparent’s
numbers for each age group Day
and send updated numbers
to your library partner
ASAP. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
International Day
Be sure to utilize the of Peace
Native American
resources provided for
Day
Spanish-speaking families:
Intro letter in Spanish; 26 27 29 29 30
Bookworms in Spanish; Look ahead through this calendar
Spanish translation of books. to see all the books and themes
your library will be sharing with
your students. Be sure to read all
the Helpful Hints for each month.
Great
Read- Alouds
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
International School 1 2
Helpful Hints: Consider sending home a note Library Month
to parents explaining the MFB program. Monthly
Meet with your library partner regarding distributions
National Friends of
Idaho Family Reading Week (FRW) (Nov. the Library Week: begin this month.
8—14), and possible Family Literacy Event. October 17-24
The Belly Button Book,
by Sandra Boynton 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Preschool
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
The Pigeon Needs a Bath, Columbus Day
by Mo Willems
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Kindergarten
24 25 26 27 28 Read for 29 30
the Record Day
Alexander and the Terrible, 31
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad
Day, by Judith Viorst Halloween
Narrative Skills/
Family Reading Week:
“Believe & Achieve”
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Birth-2
1 2 3 4 5 6
Native
American
Heritage and
Picture Book
Month Election Day
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Giraffes Can’t Dance,
by Giles Andreae International
Games Week
Preschool Daylight Savings
Time Ends Veteran’s Day
Idaho Family Reading Week, Children’s Book Week Nov. 8—14
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
I Like Myself,
by Karen Beaumont
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Kindergarten
Thanksgiving
28 29 30 Helpful Hints: Help promote your library’s FRW Event: Fliers,
Bookworm, stickers on children, emails to parents, posters/signs on
Ish, or The Dot, doors of classroom/center—send something home each week!
by Peter Reynolds Children’s Book Week is also Nov. 8—14: https://
everychildareader.net/cbw/
Phonological
Awareness
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Birth-2 Cultural
Helpful Hints: This month may be Celebrations:
1 2 3 4
filled with special assemblies, Las Posadas,
concerts, parties, etc. Check in Dec. 16-24
with your library partner Chanukah, Dec.
10-18
regarding distribution dates. Kwanzaa, Dec.
26-Jan. 1
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
What Do You See?
by Bill Martin, Jr.
International
Preschool Human Rights
Day
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
How Do Dinosaurs
Go to School?
by Jane Yolen 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Kindergarten
Christmas Eve Christmas
26 27 28 29 30 31
Saturday Night at the New Year’s Eve
Dinosaur Stomp,
by Carol Diggory Shields
Letter Knowledge
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
Helpful Hints: Whenever you have new children National Braille Literacy Month
enroll in your program, be sure to give your
library partner advance notice so they can bring 100th Day of School: check district calendar for
enough books for your new kids. exact day
New Year’s Day
Color Zoo, 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
by Lois Ehlert
Preschool
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
LMNO Peas,
by Keith Baker
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Kindergarten
MLK, Jr. Day/
Idaho Human
Rights Day
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Bad Kitty,
by Nick Bruel
30 31
Singing
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5
Children’s Authors &
Illustrators Week: Chinese New
First week of February Year -Year of the Groundhog Day
Tiger
The Itsy-Bitsy Spider,
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
by Jeannette Winter
Preschool
13 14 16 17 18 19 20
Knick Knack Paddy Wack, Valentine’s Day
by Steven Songs
21 21 22 23 24 25 26
Kindergarten
President’s Day
ICfL closed
27 28 African-American Helpful Hints: If you have special activities planned for African-
History Month American History/American History/Friendship Month, check with
International your library partner to see if they can bring in some age-
Animal Boogie, Friendship Month appropriate books for your students to enjoy.
by Debbie Harter
Writing/
Use of Print
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Birth-2
1 2 3 4 5
Dr. Seuss’s
Women’s Birthday/NEA
History Month Read Across
America Day Idaho Day
(www.nea.org)
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Blankie/Mantita,
by Leslie Patricelli
Preschool
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Daylight Savings
Time Begins St. Patrick’s Day
Wordy Birdy,
by Tammi Sauer 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Kindergarten
27 28 29 30 31 Helpful Hints: Let your library
partner know your Spring Break
dates. Consider collaborating to
Click Clack Moo Cows That plan something for Día de los niños
Type, by Doreen Cronin (Day of the Child) on April 30.Vocabulary
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
National Poetry
Helpful Hints: Month
Meet with your library partner to plan National Poetry Month 1 2
School Library Month
how parent surveys will be distributed and collected. School Library Month
National Library Week: Aprof 10-16 International
If you collect at least 75% your parent surveys National Library Week: April
for yourWeek
NAEYC library,of ICfL will provide
the Young you with
Child: April a free
10-16 3—10 Children’s Book
(www.naeyc.org)
hardcover book for your classroom! Week of the Young Child: April Day
D.E.A.R./Beverly Cleary’s BD, April 12 2—8 www.ibby.org
Can You Find...A Lion in the (www.dropeverythingandread.com)
Neighborhood?/¿Dónde 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
está… un león en el
vecindario? Ramadan: April
by Brett Medino 2—May 2
Preschool
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
National Library
Workers Day
Owl Babies, 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
by Martin Waddell
Kindergarten Earth Day
Easter
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Big Chickens Fly the Coop, El día de los
niños/libros
by Leslie HelakoskiNonfiction/
Summer Reading:
“Oceans of Possibilities”
Birth-2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Helpful Hints: Students receive two books this month! In addition to the title listed to 1
the left for each age group, each child will get to select an additional book. Asian/Pacific
Be sure to get completed MFB parent surveys to the library so they can get their final Heritage
report in on time. Meet with your library to debrief. Begin promoting Summer Reading Month
with your parents to help keep your children reading over the summer. Free Comic Book
Day 2022
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Hello, World: Ocean Life,
by Jill McDonald
Teacher
Children’s Book
Appreciation
Week
Preschool Week
(May 2—8)
(May 2-8) Cinco de Mayo
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Mother’s Day
Ocean Friends: A Journey
Beneath the Sea, 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
by Anna Krusinski (KUBU)
Kindergarten
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
30 31
Baby Orca, Memorial
29 Day
by Mary BattenYou can also read
