Monthly Themes
By LMReviews on Jun 4, 2009 in Multicultural History, Multicultural Society
Every school year growing up, I can remember the bulletin board my teachers would dedicate to the monthly calendar. It would be decorated to represent that month’s holidays or seasons. There would be the summer sun for June since school lasted well into the month of June on the East coast back then. Months with popular holidays like Christmas, Presidents’ Day, Thanksgiving, Halloween and Valentine’s Day symbolized the winter months.
Nowadays every month can make a political, cultural or philanthropic statement. Monthly themes have gone beyond Black History or Hispanic Heritage months. There’s even a govenment website with a page dedicated to all the causes that earn awareness each month. Some last a week others last all month. I was certainly out of the loop on most of them.
In case you were wondering the link is at citizencorps.org. The abbreviated list of causes and holidays are as follows:
June
- Flag Day
- National Safety Month
- Home Safety Month
July
- Independence Day
- National Parents’ Day
August
- Water Conservation
- Annual National Night Out
September
- Labor Day
- National Assisted Living Week
- National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)
- Citizenship Day
- Deaf Awareness Week
October
- Diversity Awareness Month
- National Cyber Security Month
- National Crime Prevention Month
- Fire Prevention Week
- National Red Ribbon Week
- School Bus Safety Week
November
- Thanksgiving
- Veterans Day
- National American Indian Heritage Month
December
- International Day of Disabled Persons
- Christmas
- Kwanzaa
- Hannukah
- Winter Storm Awareness
January
- National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
- National Mentoring Month
- New Year’s Day
- MLK Day
February
- Black History Month
- National Burn Awareness Week
- Valentine’s Day
- President’s Day
March
- The Great American Clean-up
- National Women’s History Month
- National Poison Prevention Week
- Flood Safety Awareness Week
April
- National 9-1-1 Education Month
- National Financial Literacy Month
- National Volunteer Week
- National Infant Immunization Week
May
- American Stroke Month
- Mental Health Month
- National Older Americans Month
