Book excerpt: Every day in your classroom will be a special day when you use the creative ideas in this book. Like the other excellent books in this series, a reason to celebrate every day in the month is included with fun activity ideas to be plugged into your regular curriculum: language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, physical fitness, art, etc. Special days in August include: Friendship Day, This Is Your Life Day, International Left-Handers' Day, Desert Day and Career Day, just to name a few. Your students will look forward to every day of the school year when you make it a constant celebration. And they'll learn while they have fun! Included are fun patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of correlated books, recipes, reproducibles and bulletin board ideas.