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Monthly Calendar Programming Ideas

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January

Theme Of The Month: National Reach Your Potential Month
Watch a movie that displays motivation and potential to get students excited and interested in the topic. During intermission or at the end of the movie, have them do a writing activity. Ask them to set goals they want to reach by the end of the school year or have them focus on a talent or intelligence and then write a detailed plan showing how they will work at improving their skills in that area.

• Dumbo
• Racing Stripes
• Stand & Deliver
• Rocky Balboa
• An American Tail
• We Are Marshall
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• Akeelah & the Bee
• Legend of Bagger Vance

Winter Themes
Happy Feet (PG), Alaska (PG), Cool Runnings (PG), Jack Frost (PG), Snow Day (PG), Eight Below (PG), Snow Buddies (G), Arctic Tale (G)
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Keep a Positive Image!
Center Stage (PG-13), Hairspray (PG), Shrek (PG), Million Dollar Baby (PG-13), Save the Last Dance (PG-13)
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February

Theme Of The Month: Black History Month
A remembrance to the important people and events in African-American history.

• This Is It
• Glory Road
• The Long Walk Home
• Remember the Titans
• Ray
• Good Hair
• Akeelah and the Bee
• Remember the Titans
• Radio
• Pride
• The Express

Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day (PG)
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SuperBowl
Remember the Titans (PG), Air Bud: Golden Receiver (G), Little Giants (PG), Rudy (PG), We Are Marshall (PG), The Game Plan (PG), Facing the Giants (PG)
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Valentine's Day
Ella Enchanted (PG), Beauty & the Beast (G), The Perfect Man (PG), Enchanted (PG), How to Lose A Guy in Ten Days (PG-13), While You Were Sleeping (PG), Lady & the Tramp (G)
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President's Day
Watch First Kid (PG) and draw pictures of the President.
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March

Theme Of The Month: Women's History Month
A remembrance to women and their forgotten heritage. A celebration to honor the originality, beauty, imagination and multiple dimensions of women’s lives.

• A League of their Own
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Little Women
• Mulan
• Becoming Jane
• Freaky Friday
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Against the Ropes
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Copyright Awareness Week
Show Big Fat Liar or choose a new release of your choice! Explain to students about copyright and why it's important to follow.
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March Madness
Air Bud (PG), Space Jam (PG), Hoosiers (PG), The Heart of the Game (PG-13), Glory Road (PG), Coach Carter (PG-13)
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April

Theme Of The Month: National Youth Sports Safety Month
Show a movie relating to sports that will get students excited and interested in the topic. Discuss ideas on how to participate in various sports safely, including proper technique, safety equipment, nutrition, sportsmanship and having fun. Have the students write a paragraph about the movie they just watched and what they would do to be safe in that sport.

• The Rookie
• Little Big League
• Kicking & Screaming
• Rudy
• The Greatest Game Ever Played
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
• The Mighty Ducks Series

Baseball
Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (G), Field of Dreams (PG), The Babe (PG), Angels in the Outfield (PG), The Rookie (G), Little Big League (PG), A League of Their Own (PG), The Natural (G), For Love of the Game (PG-13)
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Spring
How to Eat Fried Worms (PG), Antz (G), A Bug's Life (G), James & the Giant Peach (PG), Bee Movie (PG), The Ant Bully (G)
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Earth Day
Sacred Planet (G), An Inconvenient Truth (PG), Artic Tale (G), The Eleventh Hour (PG-13)
Discuss how everyone can take better care of our planet. Visit a recycling plant or learn about conservation. Try an activity such as burying plastic, paper, tin, etc. in the ground and digging it up a few months later to see how it decomposed.
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May

Theme Of The Month: National Pet Month/Be Kind to Animals
Show a movie that displays humans being kind to animals. Discuss and have them write down ideas on how they can make a difference with animals, including speaking out to others, not tolerating animal cruelty, identifying pets with ID tags, regular vet visits, etc. The students will be intrigued by the movie while learning about the amazing role animals play in our lives. The lessons they learn while they are young will stay with them for a lifetime.

• Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• Oliver & Company
• Free Willy
• Stuart Little
• Racing Stripes
• Air Bud
• Hachi: A Dog's Tale

End of School
Cars (G), Shrek The Third (PG), Racing Stripes (PG), Over the Hedge (PG), High School Musical 2 (PG), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (PG-13), Grease (PG), 10 Things I Hate About You (PG-13), Recess: School's Out (G)
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Senior Events (Safe Prom, Lock-ins, Post Graduation)
Pirates of The Caraibbean 3 (PG-13), Transformers (PG-13), National Treasure 2 (PG), I Am Legend (PG-13)
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June

Theme Of The Month: Time Travel

• Back to the Future Series
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Clockstoppers
• Flight of the Navigator
• Kate & Leopold
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Summer Camps
Bridge to Terabithia (PG), The Goonies (PG), Lilo & Stitch (PG), Recess: School’s Out (G), Daddy Day Camp (PG) , Race for your Life, Charlie Brown (G), Camp Rock (G), Ernest Goes to Camp (PG), Swiss Family Robinson (G), Withou a Paddle (PG-13), Camp Nowhere (PG), RV (PG)
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Summer Vacations
The Great Outdoors (PG), Summer Rental (PG), Vegas Vacation (PG-13), My Father the Hero (PG), The Rescuers Down Under (G)
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July

Theme Of The Month: What's Beyond the Stars

• Apollo 13
• October Sky
• Contact
• Deep Impact
• Red Planet
• Armageddon
• Mission to Mars

Beach / Water Fun
Free Willy (PG), Finding Nemo (G), Shark Tale (PG), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (PG), Flipper (PG), The Little Mermaid (G), Surf's Up (PG), Blue Crush (PG-13), Into the Blue (PG-13)
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Independence Day
Watch Johnny Tremain (G) or Transformers (PG-13) and make American Flags to decorate a bulletin board or classroom.
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August

Theme Of The Month: On a Safari

• Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
• The Lion King
• The Jungle Book
• Tarzan
• The Wild
• Curious George: Show Me the Monkey
• Crocodile Dundee
• Duma

End of Summer / Back to School
Flushed Away (PG), Madagascar (PG), Grease (PG), Dead Poets Society (PG), Back to School (PG-13), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (PG), Encino Man (PG), Nancy Drew (PG), National Treasure (PG)
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Teacher's Workshop
Freedom Writer's (PG-13), Music of the Heart (PG-13), Stand & Deliver (PG), Coach Carter (PG-13), Finding Forrester (PG-13), Dead Poet's Society (PG)
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Race to the End of Summer!
Speed Racer (PG), Cars (G), Herbie Fully Loaded (G), Driven (PG-13), Days of Thunder (PG-13), Talladega Nights (PG-13)
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September

Theme Of The Month: National Hispanic Heritage

• Selena
• Stand & Deliver
• Fool's Rush In
• Evita
• The Mask of Zorro
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua
  
  

Back to School / Fall
Kicking & Screaming (PG), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestial (PG), Flubber (PG), Teacher’s Pet (PG), Stand & Deliver (PG), Sacred Planet (G), Open Season (PG), Sydney White (PG-13)
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Diversity
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (G), Mad Hot Ballroom (PG), Guess Who (PG-13), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (PG), Maid in Manhattan (PG-13), What a Girl Wants (PG)
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October

Theme Of The Month: Dinosaur & Large Creature

• Dinosaur
• The Land Before Time Series
• Baby, Secret of the Lost Legend
• King Kong
• Jurassic Park Series
• Godzilla
• Tremors
• Mighty Joe Young

Halloween
Monster House (PG), The Haunted Mansion (PG), Hocus Pocus (PG), Clue (PG), Gremlins (PG), Ghostbusters (PG), Monsters, Inc. (G), Scooby Doo (PG), Beetlejuice (PG), Creature from the Black Lagoon (G), Casper (PG), The Adams Family (PG-13)
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Don't be a Bully!
Max Keeble's Big Move (PG), Drillbit Taylor (PG-13), Mean Girls (PG-13), Ice Princess (G), Chicken Little (G), Sky High (PG)
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November

Theme Of The Month: Native American History

• Pocahontas
• Dances with Wolves
• Geronimo: An American Legend

Thanksgiving
Pocahontas (G), Plymouth Adventure (NR), Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale (PG)
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Aviation
Valiant (G), Forever Young (PG), The Rocketeer (PG), Top Gun (PG), Iron Eagle (PG-13), Stealth (PG-13), Flyboys (PG-13)
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December

Theme Of The Month: Let's Be Kind and Help Others!

• Pay It Forward
• The Bucket List
• As Good As It Gets
• Radio
• Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Christmas
Santa Buddies (G), Mickey’s Christmas Carol (G), Four Christmases (PG-13), The Santa Clause 1, 2 or 3(PG), An All Dogs Christmas (G), Elf (PG), All I Want For Christmas (G), A Christmas Story (PG), Christmas with the Kranks (PG), Dr. Seuss's How The Grinch Stole Christmas (PG), Muppet Christmas Carol (G), One Magic Christmas (G), Prancer (G), The Polar Express (G), Unaccompanied Minors (PG)
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Hanukkah
Fiddler on the Roof (G), Radio Days (PG)
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Kwanzaa
Are We There Yet? (PG), The Preacher's Wife (PG)
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Seen on Broadway
Annie (PG), Grease (PG), Phantom of the Opera (PG-13), Mamma Mia (PG-13), Chicago (PG-13), West Side Story (NR)
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