Calendar Craziness

In 8 days I will become an official first grade teacher. I just got home and was using Edhelper.com (a pay website that helps teachers make worksheets and all sorts of stuff) to make a calendar for the first month of school. Edhelper is obsessed with fake holidays (like National Butterscotch Pudding day) and had suggested that I put a picture for each of these fake holidays into my calendar. Since I am not a fan of fake holidays, I had just been mindlessly refusing all of Edhelper's suggestions. And then I started taking a closer look at their suggested graphics, which are awesomely mystifying. Check out some of these examples:

"Children's Good Manners Month"
Suggested graphics include two children talking; a person taking child's pose; two bees talking, the sinking of the Titanic; and telephone operators at a switch board. Yep, that's children's good manners in a nutshell.


Grandparents Day

In case you couldn't tell, that first graphic is a small child opening her front door to find a polar bear. I guess the polar bear is supposed to be her grandparent? Or maybe the polar bear comes because she didn't celebrate?


Hollywood Magic Day/Childhood Cancer Month
First of all, these two "celebrations" are a little too disparate for me to feel comfortable with their grouping. I mean seriously, one is the title of an Access Hollywood segment, and the other is a tragedy. But, Edhelper does what it wants. That's why it has suggested three graphics that seem to be unrelated to Hollywood, magic, cancer and any combination of these terms.