Fundays Calendar - November

The fun continues! Celebrate a holiday or special day every day in November. Learn about holidays you never heard of. Be sure to check back every day for recipes, crafts, games and lots more fun things to do. Enjoy!

November Icons - These icons match the events on the November Fundays Calendar. They are designed to be used as each event is learned about. The icons can be glued onto the November Coloring Calendar.

November Specials:

Veteran's Day Printables; Quiz
Thanksgiving Printables; Thanksgiving Lesson; Quiz

November 1

• President 1st Occupies the White House
• Prime Meridian Set
• National Author's Day

November 2

• South Dakota Admission Day
• North Dakota Admission Day
• Daniel Boone's Birthday

November 3

• Sandwich Day
• First Dog in Space, 1957; Solar System Printables

November 4

• Election Day
• King Tut Tomb Discovery, 1922
• First Wagon Train Reached California
• National Candy Day

November 5

• Roy Rogers Birthday; Downloadable Educator's Packet
• Guy Fawkes Day
• National Donut Day

November 6

• National Nachos Day
• Saxophone Day
• Basketball Day

November 7

• Notary Public Day
• Hug A Bear Day
• Magazine Day

November 8

• X-Ray Discovery Day
• National Young Reader's Day
• Montana Admission Day

November 9

• Berlin Wall Opened, 1989
• The great Northeast blackout occurred, 1965
• Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the automobile, 1901

November 10

• Marine Corps Birthday, 1775
• Sesame Street Premiere, 1969
• World's First Motorcycle, 1885

November 11

• Veteran's Day
• Washington Admission Day
• Tomb of the Unknowns dedicated, 1921

November 12

• National Indian Pudding Day
• First meteor shower on record (Leonid Shower), 1799

November 13

• National Geography Awareness Week
• Robert Louis Stevenson's Birthday
• International Day of Kindness
• Sadie Hawkins Day

November 14

• Claude Monet's Birthday
• American Teddy Bear Day
• National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day

November 15

• National Spicy Hermit Day
• Trombones 1st in U.S.
• America Recycles Day

November 16

• Oklahoma Admission Day
• Jean Fritz' Birthday
• Button Day

November 17

• Homemade Bread Day
• Lewis & Clark Reached the Pacific in 1805
• Take a Hike Day

November 18

• Mickey Mouse's Birthday, 1928
• William Tell Day
• Antarctica Discovered, 1820

November 19

• Gettysburg Address Delivered, 1863
• James Garfield born, 1831
• First Automatic Toll Collection Machine, 1954

November 20

• Declaration of the Rights of the Child
• North Carolina Statehood Day
• Traffic Light Patented, 1923

November 21

• World Hello Day
• World Television Day
• First Manned Hot Air Balloon Flight, 1783

November 22

• John F. Kennedy Assassinated, 1963
• First Snowmobile patented, 1927
• Stealth Bomber Unveiled, 1988

November 23

• National Cashew Day
• Zoom Lens Patented, 1948
• First Jukebox Invented

November 24

• Zachary Taylor born, 1784

November 25

• Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer released, 1949
• Wind-up Car Patented, 1881

November 26

• Thanksgiving
  Thanksgiving Printables
• Slinky Invented, 1943
• King Tutankhamen's Tomb Opened, 1922
• Chrles M Schulz born, 1922

November 27

• Bill Nye's Birthday, 1955
• Pins and Needles Day

November 28

• Ed Young's Birthday (Caldecott Winner)
• Magellan reachd the Pacific, 1521
• First skywriting in the U.S., 1922

November 29

• Louisa May Alcott's Birthday, 1832
• CS Lewis born, 1898

November 30

• Mark Twain's Birthday, 1835
• Mason Jars Patented, 1958
• Lucy Maud Montgomery born, 1874

National Adoption Month
Peanut Butter Lovers' Month

Mini Units

Related Resources:
November Daily Journal Writing Prompts (Buy Direct)
Thanksgiving Thematic Unit (Buy Direct)
Thanksgiving Notepad (Buy Direct)