World Environment Day – June 6
“Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot – the only home we’ve ever known.”
– Carl Sagan
“The Earth is what we all have in common.”
– Wendall Berry
“Trees are the poems that Earth writes upon the sky.”
– Khalil Gibran
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
– Robert Swan
Donut Day – June 7
“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy donuts, and that’s kind of the same thing.”
– pinterest
“Donuts – a well-rounded breakfast.”
– Unknown
Anne Frank Born – June 12, 1929
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
– Anne Frank
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”
–Anne Frank
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
Flag Day – June 14
“You’re the emblem of the land I love. The home of the free and the brave.”
– George M. Cohan
“We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home… but when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.”
– Calvin Coolidge
“Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.”
– Adrian Cronauer
Caldecott Medal first awarded – June 14, 1938
“The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. Randolph Caldecott was one of a group of three influential children’s illustrators working in England in the 19th century. The other two illustrators were Kate Green-away and Walter Crane. His illustrations for children were unique to their time in both their humor, and their ability to create a sense of movement, vitality, and action that complemented the stories they accompanied. The illustration on the Caldecott Medal, which is taken from Caldecott’s illustrations for “The Diverting Story of John Gilpin,” is a perfect example of the humor, vitality, and sense of movement found in Caldecott’s work. The illustration shows John Gilpin astride a runaway horse, accompanied by squawking geese, braying dogs, and startled onlookers.”
– Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Power of a Smile Day – June 15
“If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.”
– Andy Rooney
“Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.”
– Jim Begg
“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
– Robert Bloch
“A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.”
–Charles Gordy
Fathers’ Day – June 16
“A father doesn’t tell you that he loves you. He shows you.”
– Dimitri the Stoneheart
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
– Steve Martin
“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.”
– Linda Poindexter
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
– Charles Wadworth
“A man’s worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.”
–Lisa Rogers
Juneteenth – June 19
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or white. It’s our basic human right.”
– Aretha Franklin
“June 19th reminds me that I am the force of power to change this world and to follow in the footsteps of my ancestors to work towards liberation.”
– Mariah Cooley
“Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.”
– John Lewis
Thank a Teacher Week First week in June
“A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change everything!”
– Unknown
“Children learn more from who you are than what you teach.”
– Unknown
“A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed.”
– Justin Trudeau
“Coffee: Turning tired teachers into superheroes on a daily basis.”
–Heidi McDonald
“If you are a teacher, some day, 20 years from now, someone will think of you and say your name. Let that sink in.”
– pinterest
“Teaching: the only profession where taking a day off creates more work than actually showing up to work in the first place. “
–BoredTeachers
National Adopt a Cat Month
“Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and get back to you later.”
– Mary Bly
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
– James Herriot